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Toth, Paul D. – Language Learning, 2006
This study addresses the role of output in second language (L2) acquisition by comparing processing instruction (PI) to communicative output (CO) tasks. Participants included 80 English-speaking adults from six university course sections of beginning L2 Spanish, with two assigned to each treatment (PI = 27; CO = 28) and two others comprising a…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Introductory Courses, Spanish
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Mudraya, Olga – English for Specific Purposes, 2006
This paper argues for the integration of the lexical approach with a data-driven corpus-based methodology in English teaching for technical students, particularly students of Engineering. It presents the findings of the author's computer-aided research, which aimed to establish a frequency-based corpus of student engineering lexis. The Student…
Descriptors: Engineering, English Instruction, Teaching Models, Language Research
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Reagan, Timothy – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2006
In this article, I address the miracle of human language from a socio-cultural perspective, emphasizing the role that language, and more explicitly, the critical study of language, can and should play in developing reflective, socially and politically aware and responsible teachers, administrators, and students. The article begins by examining the…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Research Methodology, Deafness, Discourse Analysis
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Connor, Carol McDonald; Craig, Holly K. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
Purpose: This study examined the relation between African American preschoolers' use of African American English (AAE) and their language and emergent literacy skills in an effort to better understand the perplexing and persistent difficulties many African American children experience learning to read proficiently. Method: African American…
Descriptors: North American English, Vocabulary Skills, Phonology, African American Children
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Roehr, Karen – Language Awareness, 2006
This paper reports a study employing stimulated recall protocols to investigate how L1 English-speaking learners of L2 German use their metalinguistic knowledge during the resolution of selected form-focused tasks. Verbal report data from 10 university level learners were analysed to gain insight into explicit knowledge in action during controlled…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, English, Protocol Analysis, Native Speakers
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Locklear, Erica Abrams – Community Literacy Journal, 2007
Linda Scott DeRosier's autobiographical accounts of literacy attainment in "Creeker: A Woman's Journey" and "Songs of Life and Grace" reveal that entrance into a secondary discourse community via literacy can bring both pleasure and pain. Analyzing the identity negotiations DeRosier encounters reveals that although she…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Discourse Communities, Literacy, Educational Attainment
Wu, Xiaoying; Anderson, Richard C. – Literacy Teaching and Learning, 2007
The purpose of this study was to examine the character identification strategies of Chinese children during their oral reading of a continuous text. Eighteen second graders' oral reading of a story, as well as an interview about their decoding strategies, were audiotaped and transcribed. The results generally converged with those of previous oral…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Oral Reading, Metalinguistics, Written Language
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Lotherington, Heather – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquee, 2007
For several years children at Joyce Public School have been rewriting traditional stories from localized cultural and linguistic perspectives, creating innovative, individualized narrative forms with digital technology. Our experimental multiliteracies research project is a collaboration of school and university teachers and researchers following…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Assignments, Tales, Indigenous Knowledge
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Crotteau, Michelle – English Journal, 2007
Honoring students' home dialect is a complex task when preparing them to take state writing tests that require the use of Standard English. Working with students who had failed the test and were in danger of not receiving a diploma, Michelle Crotteau created a supportive learning environment in which students could develop linguistic and…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Writing Tests, Writing Strategies, State Standards
Vincent, Diane; Martel, Guylaine – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (Tranel), 2001
This article focuses on the use of metadiscursive expressions and discourse particles that are produced in great numbers by two groups of Montreal French speakers in different time periods and that have generally been regarded as language ticks. Elements of the first group make explicit the conscious state of speakers with respect to their…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, French, French Canadians
Royer, Corinne – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (Tranel), 2001
This study hypothesizes that negation and finiteness are linked in the development of foreign language acquisition in comparable ways to their development in first language acquisition. By contrasting synchronic intrapersonal variability data with change occurring in the diachronic data about negation, this article shows how adult learners of…
Descriptors: Adults, Diachronic Linguistics, French, Grammar
Murphy, B. Keith – 1999
This report attempts to construct a postmodern framework to provide for an analysis of Intercollegiate Forensics. It isolates the major theoretical constructs of postmodernism, applies them to Intercollegiate Forensics, and draws conclusions. The paper maintains that linguistic-based postmodernism consists of four theoretical areas: (1)…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Information Industry, Mass Media Role, Metalinguistics
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Carter, Ronald – ELT Journal, 2003
Discusses the concept of language awareness and its use in language teaching, which refers to the development in learners of an enhanced consciousness of and sensitivity to the forms and functions of language. The approach has been developed in the contexts of both second and foreign language learning, as well as in mother tongue education.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Metalinguistics, Native Language Instruction, Second Language Instruction
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Olsen, Flemming – ELT Journal, 2002
Suggests that grammar teaching should go beyond syntax and morphology and concern itself with a more careful observation of meta-grammatical phenomena. Advocates that an instrumental view of grammar should be supplemented with an integral view of language. The ultimate aim is to make learners aware of the way a language works. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Metalinguistics, Second Language Instruction
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Swisher, Linda; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1995
Twenty-five preschool children with specific language impairment and 25 controls were evaluated on generalization of trained bound morphemes to untrained vocabulary stems, in 2 training conditions: explicit, trainer verbalization of the affixation "rule" and an "implicit rule" condition. Findings indicated that explicit presentation of…
Descriptors: Generalization, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments
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