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Hatch, Elke J. – 1983
The use of discussion about students' vacations on the first day of a third-year college level conversational German class is analyzed. The discussion imitates a common conversational situation. Many students at this level tend to fall into use of the present tense, attempting few other tenses at first, and research shows that Germans consider…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Download full textLepage, Danielle, Ed.; Dominik, Annette, Ed. – 1989
Presentations by students at a colloquium on student research on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the University of Laval's Faculty of Letters, March 18-19, 1988, include: "Une enquete sur la qualite du francais ecrit au Quebec"; "Amenagement linguistique et neologie"; "Analyse syntaxique des 'arrets et retours' en…
Descriptors: Arabic, French, Grammar, Higher Education
Chappel, Virginia A.; Rodby, Judith – 1982
The problems encountered by English as second language (ESL) students in selecting verb tenses for their written discourse were investigated. Tape recorded interviews with four freshman composition students who had been referred for intensive work on verb errors were analyzed for students' explanations of their errors and the contexts in which…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Stout, Steven Owen – 1977
The paper examines interpretive aspects of English non-uniformity among fifth and sixth grade Native Americans at Laguna Elementary School, Laguna, New Mexico. Speaker assessments of instances of uninflected "be" are ordered to form an implicational scale. The variability in the students' assessment pattern is compared to previous inter-ethnic…
Descriptors: American Indians, Bilingualism, Child Language, Dialect Studies
Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. Language and Orientation Resource Center. – 1981
As an introduction to Afghani refugees in the United States, this report discusses various aspects of Afghani life both in the U.S. and Afghanistan. Within the discussion of Afghani cultural background, Afghani history, geography, livelihood, language, ethnicity, religion, art, food and dress, festivities, names, and social structure are reviewed.…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Art, Consonants, Cultural Background
Chinn, Judith A. – 1979
Two research projects focused on the nature of verb choice and its relationship to a composition's general effectiveness and reader impact. In the pilot project, 28 fifth grade students received an instructional unit of 27 lessons emphasizing the incorporation of precise verb vocabulary and the elimination of forms of "to be" and "to have" as main…
Descriptors: Grade 12, Grade 5, High Schools, Holistic Evaluation
Damron, Shayla R. – 1977
Designed for the individualized instruction of non-mainstream (non-standard) dialect bearing students from middle school through secondary, this instructional packet attempts to develop flexibility in language whereby the dialect bearer will be able to assimilate the mainstream (standard) forms and phonology into his own idiolect without…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Dialects, Individualized Instruction, Instructional Materials
Zobl, Helmut – 1979
Developmental data from the acquisition of English by a German child, aged 5, are analyzed with a view to identifying structural conditions that give rise to interference, and to determine which L2 structures are affected and which structures govern developmental changes. Word order in German and English sentences ahve reflexes in different…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Diachronic Linguistics, English (Second Language)
Lavandera, Beatriz R. – 1978
The Spanish tense system was chosen as a starting point to establish the systematic character of the Spanish used in situations of intense code switching between Spanish and English. The tense system was chosen for two reasons: (1) the distinction among past tenses (in particular, the imperfect indicative vs. the preterite and the past continuous)…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Dialects, Discourse Analysis
Bruzzese, Giannina – 1978
The effect of formal instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL) on the pidginized speech of a second language learner was studied. The subject was a 76-year-old Italian woman residing in the United States since the age of 37. Four one-hour tapes were made of the subject's speech in April of 1976, and during the last five months of a…
Descriptors: Age, English (Second Language), Grammar, Italian
Galloway, Brent D. – 1975
The core of this paper consists of two lessons in beginning Halkomelem, the tenth and eleventh of a set for adult classes in the Halkomelem (Upper Stalo) language of the Indians of Coqualeetza, British Columbia. The lessons deal with tenses and words for time, show the orthography used, and introduce the notion of pronouns. The subject matter…
Descriptors: Adult Education, American Indian Languages, Canada Natives, Cultural Influences
Harada, Kazuko I. – 1977
The development of production and comprehension by one two-year-old girl of three Japanese constructions (passives, causatives, and "te moraw"), which have similar surface configurations "NP ga NP ni V ("rare"/ "sase"/ "te moraw") TENSE," is investigated through elicited imitations and responses to the investigator's questions about the content of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Deep Structure, Error Analysis (Language)
Petersen, P. W. – 1978
The dangers and misuses of literary dialect as a source of information for linguistic evaluation are analyzed. "Literary dialect" is used to refer to writing in which the main purpose is the artful construction of a narrative, where the dialect representation is apt to be concerned more with giving an artful impression of a dialect than…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Literature, Creoles, Dialect Studies
Ruhl, Charles – 1975
The meaning of a word often cannot be formulated by conscious rules, because it is unconscious. Evidence on the verb "break" demonstrates this. The consequence for teaching is that teachers cannot supply meanings in words, but should present a wide range of uses of a word, so that students can intuit the unconscious generalization. (Author)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Context Clues
James, Frank W. – 1975
The report provides simplified instructions for writing and illustrating Job Performance Aids (JPAs). JPAs are step-by-step work instructions geared to the intellectual level of the performer and background training aids for psychological task preparedness. The first two sections of the report discuss the origin of JPAs and the principles of task…
Descriptors: Direction Writing, Grammar, Guides, Job Analysis
