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Spanish Curricula Development Center, Miami Beach, FL. – 1977
Reflecting the theme "our community", this unit consists of Kits 1-4 which are organized in three sections: reading, language analysis, and creative expression. The reading section includes two readers which contain three poems and five stories dealing with a grandmother's efforts to help support the family, a female pilot who successfully lands a…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Childrens Literature, Creative Expression, Elementary Education
Dissemination and Assessment Center for Bilingual Education, Austin, TX. – 1978
Designed for bilingual Spanish-English supplemental reading instruction for second grade students, this workbook is intended to be used with the reader of the same title. There is also a teacher's guide. The workbook provides about five pages of reinforcing exercises for each of the eight stories in the reader. The exercises are in the form of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Books, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education
Porton, Vicki M. – 1978
This study explored the dichotomy between global errors, that is, those violating rules of overall sentence structure, and local errors, that is, those violating rules within a particular constituent of a sentence, and the relationship of these to communication breakdown. The focus was tense continuity across clauses (TC) and subject-verb…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis
KUFNER, HERBERT L. – 1962
DESIGNED AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR PROFESSIONALS PREPARING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS, PLANNING COURSES, OR DEVELOPING CLASSROOM TECHNIQUES FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMS, A SERIES OF STUDIES HAS BEEN PREPARED THAT CONTRASTS, IN TWO VOLUMES FOR EACH OF THE FIVE MOST COMMONLY TAUGHT FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN THE UNITED STATES, THE SOUND AND GRAMMATICAL…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English
STOCKWELL, ROBERT P.; AND OTHERS – 1965
DESIGNED AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR PROFESSIONALS PREPARING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS, PLANNING COURSES, OR DEVELOPING CLASSROOM TECHNIQUES FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMS, A SERIES OF STUDIES HAS BEEN PREPARED THAT CONTRASTS, IN TWO VOLUMES FOR EACH OF THE FIVE MOST COMMONLY TAUGHT FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN THE UNITED STATES, THE SOUND AND GRAMMATICAL…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar
Carlbom, Ulla – 1973
The materials employed in this investigation were 769 translations from Swedish into English made by Swedish university students studying English. The principal objective was to study aspects of learner behavior (in treating English word order) to obtain information about the types of errors Swedish students commit in English production and…
Descriptors: College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Mepham, Michael S. – 1967
This discussion of the use of computer programming in syntactic analysis covers three major points: (1) a review of basic notions in automatic grammars; (2) a description of the grammar used in a pilot project which analysed the linguistic content of methods of teaching foreign languages; and (3) proposals on the application of the same techniques…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Computational Linguistics, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs
Harsh, Wayne – 1965
The approaches of traditional grammar, descriptive linguistics, and generative grammar are largely complementary rather than exclusive. Traditional grammar defines eight parts of speech according to meaning or function and concerns itself almost wholely with the written language. Descriptive linguistics postulates that English has a set of unique…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English Instruction, Form Classes (Languages)
Lakoff, George – 1965
This dissertation is an attempt to characterize the notion "exception to a rule of grammar" within the context of Chomsky's conception of grammar as given in "Aspects of the Theory of Syntax." This notion depends on a prior notion of "rule government"--in each phrase marker on which a transformational rule may…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Context Free Grammar, English
Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1974
This is a contrastive analysis of English and Modern Literary Arabic. Part one deals with phonology, including suprasegmentals and orthography. Part two deals with morphology, part three with sentence structure, part four with verb phrases, and part five with noun phrases. These sections emphasize structures that present problems to the…
Descriptors: Arabic, Capitalization (Alphabetic), Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language)
Christensen, Francis – 1967
This collection of essays on literary composition sets forth rhetorical principles formulated from a close inductive study of contemporary American prose. The first essay develops a system of analyzing sentences by structural levels and outlines a generative rhetoric for the sentence consisting of the processes of "addition,""direction of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adjectives, Adverbs, Descriptive Writing
Di Pietro, Robert J. – Working Papers in Linguistics, 1971
The distinction between artifact and tool is introduced into the study of language diversity and the posting of linguistic universals. A complicating factor in all language investigations is the use of language as the chief tool to create new language. Analogy and metaphor are considered as two major creative forces at work in all languages.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Creativity, Deep Structure
Price, James D. – 1971
This first part of a four-part report of research on the development of a computerized, phrase-structure grammar of modern Hebrew presents evidence to demonstrate the need for material to train teachers of Semitic languagues in the theory of grammar. It then provides a discussion of the research already done on the application of computational…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs, Deep Structure
Lipton, Gladys; And Others – 1971
This publication, together with the audio tapes which it accompanies, was prepared to support the curriculum bulletin, "New York City Foreign Language Program for Secondary Schools: Spanish, Levels 1-5." The scripts in this manual are intended for use in the presentation and drill of the grammatical structures for level 3. The tapes, requiring 10…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiotape Recordings, Cultural Education, Culture
George, H. V. – 1972
This book presents a three-part discussion of the causes and prevention of errors in foreign language learning with particular reference to English as a second language. The first part provides a survey of error analysis, defining what is meant by the term "error" and establishing a model of error production. Other terms explained in this section…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Information Processing
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