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Download full textBruce, Nigel J., Ed.; Crewe, William J., Ed. – Hongkong Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1989
Papers on linguistics and language teaching in this volume are the following: "The Revision Process in Academic Writing: From Pen and Paper to Word Processor" (Stephen Chadwick, Nigel Bruce); "Sentence Sequence and Coherence: In Search of Readers' Problems in Academic Discourse" (Desmond Allison); "Plural Marking in Hong Kong English" (Carol…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Case Studies, Code Switching (Language), Coherence
Newbrook, Mark – Hongkong Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1990
A study compared the perceptions of two experts from different cultural backgrounds concerning salience of a variety of errors typical of the English written by Hong Kong secondary and college students. A book on English error types written by a Hong-Kong born, fluent Chinese-English bilingual linguist was analyzed for its emphases, and a list of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Students, Comparative Analysis, English
TEANGA: Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 1985
Articles in this issue of a journal on applied linguistics include: "Multilingualism as a Relaxed Affair: The Case of the Western Canadian Halfbreeds" (Patrick C. Douaud); "Testing a Group of Bilingual Children with the Bilingual Syntax Measure" (Christine Helot); "Two Years On: A Sample of Mother Child Interaction in a…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1997
Current trends and issues in second language education are summarized to provide background data for discussion in these areas: language use patterns in Canada and in the world; language education in Canada, with a focus on Alberta's situation (federal and provincial roles in multicultural education and second language study throughout Canada, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Economic Development, Educational Trends
Adger, Carolyn Temple – 1997
The paper discusses some issues that language variation creates for English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction, identifies research strands relevant to program development, and describes two dialect program exemplars. It also suggests considerations for educational policy formation with respect to dialects. The introductory section gives…
Descriptors: Creoles, Curriculum Design, Dialect Studies, Dialects
Toohey, Kelleen; Day, Elaine – 1998
An ongoing four-year ethnographic study of two cohorts of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners enrolled in mainstream Canadian primary school classrooms is described. The two cohorts are: (1) a group of six children observed from the beginning of kindergarten through the end of grade 2, and (2) five children observed from early kindergarten…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Elementary School Students
Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs (ED), Washington, DC. – 1990
Ten research papers are presented that were commissioned by the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs for the 1990 research symposium on issues related to Limited-English-Proficient (LEP) students. Responses from 20 practitioners who served as discussants at the symposium are included in the proceedings. Topics range from…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Bilingualism, Demography, Early Childhood Education
Dianda, Marcie – 1992
This report synthesizes knowledge and instructional practices appropriate for effective instruction in classrooms comprised of students from three or more linguistic backgrounds. It specifically targets beginning teachers in Arizona, California, and Nevada schools where numbers of ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse students have…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Bilingual Education Programs, Cultural Background, Elementary Secondary Education
Gladstein, Jill, Ed.; Silver, Rita Elaine, Ed. – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1994
This collection of six papers consists of works in progress undertaken by students and faculty of the University of Pennsylvania's Language in Education Division of the Graduate School of Education. The papers are: (1) "Language Planning and Identity Planning: An Emergent Understanding" (Rebecca Freeman); (2) "Communicative…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Classroom Environment, Cultural Influences, Descriptive Linguistics
Maybin, Janet, Ed. – 1994
Readings on language and literacy within their social context include: "The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Languages" (Bronislaw Malinowski); "Toward Ethnographies of Communication" (Dell Hymes); "Language as Social Semiotic" (M. A. K. Halliday); "Language and Ideology" (V. N. Volosinov); "Family…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Cultural Context, Ethnography, Family Influence
Piscitelli, Christine D. – 1990
An inservice teacher education course was designed to address the problems of content-area teachers in teaching limited-English-proficient (LEP) students. Goals were for content-area teachers: (1) to gain sensitivity to and understanding of the special needs of this population; (2) to become aware of the cultural and linguistic diversity and…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Cultural Awareness
Dialog on Language Instruction, 1987
This document consists of the two issues of "Dialog on Language Instruction" (DLI) published during 1987. The following articles appear in these issues of this "occasional" internal publication: "Foreign Language Technology in the 21st Century" (Frank Otto); "Cultural Distance and the Foreign Language…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Hargrave, Susanne, Ed. – 1982
Six papers on the relationship of language and culture in the Australian Aboriginal context are presented. "Some Thoughts on Yanyuwa Language and Culture" by Jean Kirton gives an overview of some language-culture relationships and examines seven kinds of possession in one language. "Nyangumarta Kinship: A Woman's Viewpoint" by…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Children, Color, Comparative Analysis
Loman, Bengt – 1982
The project Talsyntax (Syntax of Spoken Swedish), part of a large-scale study of modern Swedish language usage, examined the general characteristics and peculiarities of spoken Swedish. Three important aspects of the study are data collection, methodological results, and empirical results. The data collection effort has produced an archive of…
Descriptors: Classification, Data Collection, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
PDF pending restorationFisiak, Jacek, Ed. – 1985
Papers on contrastive linguistics in this volume include: "Contrastive Discourse Analysis in Language Usage" (Juliane House); "Typology and Contrastive Analysis" (Vlasta Strakova); "On the Tenability of the Notion 'Pragmatic Equivalence' in Contrastive Analysis" (Karol Janicki); "On the Relevance of Phonetic,…
Descriptors: Arabic, Classification, Cohesion (Written Composition), Comparative Analysis
