NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Does not meet standards4
Showing 5,011 to 5,025 of 5,632 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Collentine, Joseph – Hispania, 1995
Examines the difficulty foreign language learners of Spanish experience in distinguishing between indicative and subjunctive moods after four semesters of study. An analysis of two oral production tasks suggests that, at this intermediate level, they are unlikely to possess enough linguistic foundation to fully benefit from instruction in mood…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Course Content, Discourse Analysis
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Bayley, Robert – Language Variation and Change, 1994
Examines the process of consonant cluster reduction in the English of residents of a San Antonio, Texas, "barrio." The author compares Tejano patterns of "/-t,d/" deletion with the pan-English pattern. Results suggest a pattern of convergence and divergence. The study shows that Mexican American English exhibits regional and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Consonants, Data Collection, Dialect Studies
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Chambers, Francine; Richards, Brian – Language Learning Journal, 1995
Discusses the use of "free conversation" in oral examinations. The use of "free conversation" to describe structured interviews where the teacher does most of the questioning and the candidate supplies most of the information is inaccurate unless the format of tasks can genuinely allow the exchange of previously unknown information. (CK)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Course Descriptions, French, Interviews
Burt, Susan Meredith – IRAL, 1991
Discusses some aspects of the Japanese language that look inexplicable at first but that turn out to be explainable by pragmatic principles shared with English. Focus is placed on how the Japanese choose a particular word to use in a sentence involving indirect quotations, when the words would be synonyms in other languages. (20 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Grammar, Japanese
Azzaro, Gabrielle – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1992
Defines English phrasal verbs (EPVs) and analyzes Italian students problems when studying them. Through contrastive analysis of English and Italian syntax and study of student errors, important insights are offered. (over 100 references) (LET)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Italian
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Thomas, Sarah; Hawes, Thomas P. – English for Specific Purposes, 1994
Reporting verbs used in reporting statements, or citation, in medical journal articles are described, and their role in the discourse is examined. Choice among Discourse Verbs, Real-Word Verbs, and Cognition Verbs correlates with the rhetorical function of the report; e.g, Cognition Verbs correlate with reports of consensus views of the scientific…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), English for Science and Technology, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
White, Lydia – Language Acquisition, 1991
Investigates effects of instruction on parameter resetting in second-language acquisition, where the first and second language differ as to the settings they adopt for verb movement. The question addressed is whether instruction on one of a cluster of properties associated with lack of verb movement in English generalizes to another property…
Descriptors: English, French, Instructional Materials, Language Acquisition
de Meyer, Bernard; And Others – Francais dans le Monde, 1993
Four instructional ideas for use in the French second-language classroom are described, including an exercise in the temporal aspect of French past tenses; part of a series on simulating a French village community; a verb tense drill set in the context of a murder mystery; and an exercise in current French street slang. (MSE)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, French, Language Role
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Adair-Hauck, Bonnie; Donato, Richard – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1994
A study analyzed the communicative dynamics occurring during explicit instruction of a grammatical concept (concerning French verbs) taught within the students' Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD). Analysis focused on discourse strategies used at four levels of the ZPD. (Contains 48 references.) (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Hakansson, Gisela – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2001
Compares the development of tense morphology and verb-second in different learner populations. Three groups of Swedish pre-school children are investigated longitudinally: first language speakers, second language speakers, and children diagnosed with specific language impairment.(Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Longitudinal Studies
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Casenhiser, Devin; Goldberg, Adele E. – Developmental Science, 2005
This is the first study to investigate experimentally how children come to learn mappings between novel phrasal forms and novel meanings: a central task in learning a language. Two experiments are reported. In both studies 5- to 7-year-old children watched a short set of video clips depicting objects appearing in various ways. Each scene was…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Acquisition, Experiments, Video Technology
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Nadasdi, Terry – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquee, 2005
This article presents a variationist analysis of verbs meaning "reside" in Ontario French. Four lexical variants are examined: "demeurer," "habiter," "rester" and "vivre." Results reveal that "rester" is used most often by unrestricted speakers and least often by those whose use of French…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Verbs, Foreign Countries, French
Halverson, Jim – 1996
Drawing on a program used successfully in the classroom for 20 years, this book presents 15 reproducible skills lessons that teach students in grades 4 through 8 essential grammar rules in an engaging, meaningful way. The book uses games, puzzles, mazes, and model sentences that tell amusing stories while teaching rules. Units in the book cover…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Games, Grammar, Intermediate Grades
Marzouk, Ghiath El – TEANGA: The Irish Yearbook of Applied Linguistics, 1995
In two previous studies, language learner behavior in which the learner tries to underproduce a certain second-language (L2) structure is termed "avoidance." The current analysis examines whether this is an appropriate term. Avoidance is defined as a genuine strategy resulting from the learner's realization that particular forms of input…
Descriptors: Arabic, Behavior Patterns, English, Foreign Countries
Lee, In, Ed.; Schiefelbein, Scott, Ed. – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1990
This serial is intended as a forum for the presentation, in print, of the latest original research by the faculty and students of the Department of Linguistics and other related departments at the University of Kansas. Papers are as follows: "Interpreting St. Clair's Comanche Texts: Objective Case Marking and 'Same Subject' Dependent…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Bilingual Education, Case (Grammar), Elementary Secondary Education
Pages: 1  |  ...  |  331  |  332  |  333  |  334  |  335  |  336  |  337  |  338  |  339  |  ...  |  376