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Dubin, Fraida – 1975
This paper discusses the use of pop, rock, and folk music in foreign language teaching. Modern music represents an idiom familiar to a broad span of young people, and has an important place in the life of students ranging in age from ten to thirty-five years of age. It also tends to follow and comment on the important trends of modern society.…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Educational Media, English (Second Language), Instructional Materials
Worth, Dean Stoddard – Word, 1958
This comparative study of traditional and transformational approaches to the syntax of standard Russian proposes the superiority of analysis in terms of possible and impossible transformations, thereby revealing the existence of a level of linguistic form superior to that of simple morphophonemic description. Five classes of word-combinations of…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Patterns
Elliott, Dale; And Others – 1971
The volume of working papers includes eight papers describing current theory and research in linguistics and in semantics and syntax. The following articles are in the collection: "The Grammar of Emotive and Exclamatory Sentences in English,""Linguistics as Chemistry: The Substance Theory of Semantic Primes,""On Perceptual and Grammatical…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages)

Watanabe, Kilyong – 1972
This paper is concerned with the syntactic problems raised by the grammatical phenomenon in Japanese that is called here the "complementizer." In the types of sentences under consideration here, S2 is a nominal clause. Such a clause acts as a noun phrase adjunct to the verb in S1. The noun clauses in question are often followed by a…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Generative Grammar, Grammar
Kachru, Braj B. – 1976
The notion of language dependency presupposes that there is a hierarchy of languages in a multilingual society, and that each language is assigned a functional role in a multilingual individual's restricted or extended spheres of linguistic interaction. In South Asia, language dependency has resulted in linguistic convergence of two types: (1)…
Descriptors: Dravidian Languages, English, Hindi, Indo European Languages

Vainikka, Anne; Young-Scholten, Martha – Second Language Research, 1996
Analyzes data on the acquisition of German by Italian and Spanish speakers. Findings reveal that children learning a first language and adults learning a second language build up syntactic structure in much the same manner, and propose that the weak continuity approach of language acquisition accounts for all instances of syntactic acquisition.…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Developmental Stages, German
Mizuno, Mitsuharu – Kanagawa University Studies in Language, 1993
The purpose of this paper is to describe the function of English articles in a functional-pragmatic perspective, to clarify how the functions of the articles are reflected in the discourse, and to give some pedagogical implications for teaching English as a foreign language (EFL). Deixis is a grammatical category involving reference to…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Computer Assisted Instruction, Determiners (Languages), Discourse Analysis
Chang, Suk-Jin – 1996
The grammar of the Korean language presented here is descriptive and structural, and does not align with any particular theory. An introductory chapter gives some background information about the language and related research. Subsequent chapters treat: writing and sound systems, including some sound rules and suprasegmental features; morphology…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Andersson, Erik; Ostman, Jan-Ola – 1978
The encoding of Swedish syntactic information in a study of linguistic data processing is described in detail. The choice of syntactic variables and classification criteria, illustrated with examples, is also discussed. In addition, uses of the coding for contrasting languages, as in this study's comparison of Swedish, Finnish, and English word…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Data Processing
Keeler, Sandy – 1986
This guide is intended for use in helping students master the language arts skills necessary to pass the writing skills portion of the General Educational Development examination. It could also be used in adult basic education classes. The following topics are covered in the individual units: capitalization, punctuation, verb tense, subject-verb…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adult Basic Education, Adverbs, Basic Skills
Harris, John, Ed.; And Others – 1986
This collection of symposium papers on varieties of the English language used in Ireland includes: "The Role of Irish English in the Formation of Colonial Englishes," by P. Trudgill; "Anglo-Irish Verse in Translation from Irish," by P. L. Henry; "The Methodology of Urban Language Studies," by J. Milroy;…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English
Sacco, Margaret Close – 1976
This workbook is part of "Contact Canada," a course for teaching English as a second language to adult Francophones. The specific aim of this booklet is to teach the meaningful use of the progressive present tense through comparison and contrast with simple present tense usage. The workbook, which is accompanied by a six-minute animated…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comprehension, English (Second Language), Grammar
Hyman, Larry M.; Magaji, Daniel J. – 1971
This book is intended as a practical introduction to the study of the Gwari language. Therefore, the descriptive analysis of the grammar of Gwari is made without recourse to technical language. The book is divided into 5 sections, dealing with: (1) phonology; (2) the noun phrase; (3) the verb phrase; (4) the sentence; and (5) vocabulary, in the…
Descriptors: African Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Glossaries
Crowhurst, Marion – 1980
Research on the relationship between syntactic complexity and quality of written composition was reviewed to test the assumption that these two concepts are positively related. The studies reviewed, which have appeared during the past 15 years, fall into two broad categories: (1) intervention studies designed to increase syntactic complexity and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Freshmen, Difficulty Level, Elementary Secondary Education
Jelinski, Jack – 1977
An approach to teaching the subjunctive in the foreign language classroom is presented here. Based primarily on the work of the linguist William Bull, the numerous and vague "rules" are reduced to two essential principles that determine subjunctive use. The materials consist of a sixteen-page teaching guide, an outline for student use,…
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction