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Clark, Eve V., Ed.; Holden, Gary, Ed. – 1987
Presented is a collection of 14 conference papers on various aspects of child language acquisition. Papers and authors include: "Language and Psychological Development" (Jean Berko Gleason); "Regression in the Phonological Development of Two Children" (Ken M. Bleile, J. Bruce Tomblin); "Children's Acquisition of the…
Descriptors: Adverbs, American Sign Language, Child Language, Chinese
Stanford Univ., CA. Dept. of Linguistics. – 1986
Papers on child language development include: "Sentence Frame Effects on Children's Category Judgments" (Alison K. Adams); "Color Similarity in Children's Classifications and Extension of Object Labels" (Dare Baldwin); "Situational Properties of Early Verb Meaning" (Pol Cuvelier); "Similarity, Specificity, and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classification, Color, Comparative Analysis
Bint, Peter, Ed.; And Others – ESPMENA Bulletin, 1987
These two issues of the bulletin of English for Special Purposes in the Middle East and North Africa (ESPMENA) include book reviews, notices to the profession, and these articles: "Verb Frequencies in a Forestry Textbook" (Yu Xiaoyuan); "X Equals NX One Plus MX Two Over M Plus N" (E. Arnold); "A Note on Research in an EAP [English for Academic…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Classroom Techniques, Developing Nations, English for Academic Purposes
Adam Mickiewicz Univ. in Poznan (Poland). – 1978
The Center for Applied Linguistics, in Cooperation with Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, undertook to cover experimentally, for a period of 18 months, foreign language Journal material on applied linguistics published in Central and Eastern Europe and to select for abstracting, and in some cases, translation, articles of particular…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Applied Linguistics, Audiovisual Aids, English (Second Language)
Valdman, Albert – Alberta Modern Language Journal, 1977
This article discusses the incompatibility between the goal of communicative competence (defined more narrowly as minimal approximative communicative competence) and current practices of syllabus design, and suggests more relevant alternatives. Foreign language instruction is still dominated by the teaching of language structure for its own sake,…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Design, Curriculum Guides, Discourse Analysis
Peace Corps, Washington, DC. – 1966
This vocabulary guide is an alphabetical listing of English words and their equivalent in Chinyanja. A general list of verbs is included, as well as commonly used expressions for planned conversation. The basic expressions are intended for use in learning the health needs and problems of the Malawi community. (NCR)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, African Culture, African Languages
Boone, Eleanor C., Comp.; And Others – 1978
This resource guide for teachers of English to speakers of other languages contains two sections, one dealing with resources and the second dealing with the language itself. The first section contains teaching ideas, techniques, and suggestions on how to present, develop, and reinforce pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, and…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Grammar
Gutow, Howard, Ed. – Cross Currents, 1979
This issue of "Cross Currents" includes the following articles: "An Experience with CLL" by Earl Stevick; "Accuracy vs. Fluency in the English Language Classroom" by Kenton Sutherland; "Predicate Markers: A New Look at the English Predicate System" by Phillip L. Knowles; "'Let Your TV do the Talking':…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Creative Thinking, Cultural Education, Drama
Svartvik, Jan; And Others – 1973
The Swedish-English Contrastive Studies project was begun in 1972 in the English Department of Lund University. The project began with an analysis of errors, of which this is the first report. The approach to error analysis is primarily an attempt to: (1) establish the areas of English grammar, lexis, and phonology which cause difficulty to…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Classification, Contrastive Linguistics
Andersen, Roger W. – 1977
Current cross-sectional morpheme accuracy methodology whittles away the data until what remains in the final analysis is less interesting than what has been discarded. These methods of analysis obscure and eliminate variation in individual production of the morphemes under study and fail to reveal true systematicity in the data. Using data on…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Data Analysis, Determiners (Languages)
Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1974
This contrastive analysis of English and Mandarin Chinese is designed to introduce ESL teachers to many of the fundamental differences between Chinese and English. This material is intended to assist the teacher in defining the problems that Chinese speakers are likely to have in learning English. The introduction includes information on the…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics
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Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. – 1972
This course outline for advanced students of Spanish is based on Units 24 and 25 of "A-LM Spanish," first edition, with numerous materials added. The multiple skills of language are enhanced with continued emphasis on guided discussion and free conversation. Nominalization with the definite, indefinite, and neuter articles is among the…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Audiolingual Methods, Course Content, Course Descriptions
Leaverton, Lloyd – 1971
The experiment described in this report investigates two basic questions concerning beginning reading instruction to speakers of nonstandard dialects. 1--Will learning to read be facilitated if the primary reading material is phrased in the actual word patterns and grammatical structure used by the children in their oral speech? 2--Will learning…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Experiments, Language Acquisition, Language Instruction
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Cronje, J. V. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 1996
Describes a computer program that generates a bank of items for second-language learning drills, including the differential processing of nouns, adjectives, and verbs. The program is used in a New Testament Greek course at the University of the Orange Free State (South Africa), and the exercises generated are tied directly to the course textbook.…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Authoring Aids (Programming), Biblical Literature, Classical Languages
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Frazier, Jennie; Sloan, Maritza – 1995
An instructional unit for Spanish second language instruction, based on an original story "El Ano Neuvo en Costa Rica" (New Year's in Costa Rica) written by Maritza Sloan, is presented. An introductory section outlines briefly the process of planning a thematic unit and its outcomes, and suggests categories of activities to support…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Course Descriptions, Cultural Awareness
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