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Lay, Nancy Duke S. – 1991
This guide is designed to help college-level teachers of English as a Second Language address the particular linguistic characteristics and instructional needs of native Chinese-speaking students. The first chapter profiles four Chinese students at the City College of New York, focusing on their basic literacy in Chinese, immigration issues,…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Izzo, John – 1999
A survey of 34 professors teaching English as a second language in 20 Japanese universities elicited information about common errors in student writing. In open-ended questions, respondents identified 40 student error types, which were grouped into 18 categories. The most common problem category was sentence development, and other high-frequency…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students, Determiners (Languages)
Kim, Hye-Ryun – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1994
This study investigated how Korean adult learners of English at various levels of proficiency interpret English reflexives. The subjects consisted of 15 ninth-graders with 2.5 years of English instruction, 15 eleventh-graders with 4.5 years of instruction, 15 first-year college students with 6.5 years of instruction, and 15 graduate students who…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Froese, Victor – 1983
A study examined the transition from dependent writing (dictation) to independent writing for 40 first grade students. Specifically, the study investigated (1) how, in terms of common quantitative language units (mean words per t-unit, mean number of dependent clauses, words per maze, mean number of dependent clauses per t-unit, and length in…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Dictation, Discourse Analysis
Correctional Education Association. – 1984
Authors and titles of the 15 papers in this volume are as follows: "A Follow-up Study of Vocational Education Graduates from the Ohio Central School System during Fiscal Year 1979" (Earl R. Schaeffer, Theodore P. Shannon); "Legal and Policy Dimensions of Functional Illiteracy among Post-Secondary Inmate Students" (Paul Moke, Jarrell Holloway);…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Certification, Correctional Education, Criminals
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 1982
This issue of the journal includes these papers on contrastive linguistics: "Violations of Frege's Principle and Their Significance for Contrastive Semantics" (Dafydd Gibbon); "Writing the Contrastive Grammar of English and Dutch. The Treatment of Modal Notions" (Flor Aarts and Herman Wekker); "The Theory and Methodology…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Dutch
TECFORS, 1982
Numbers 1 through 5 of the 1982 TECFORS newsletter include these articles: "A Comprehensive ESL Reading Program" (Carol Qazi); "The Purpose of the Passive" (Virginia French Allen); "'Standards' Seconded" (Timothy H. Robinson); "Vocabulary and the College-Bound International Student" (Parts 1-3) (Kerry Segel); "Using Invention Heuristics to Teach…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Classroom Techniques, College Bound Students, English (Second Language)
Dominguez, John H., Jr.; And Others – 1983
The manual supplements "English as a Second Language Program: A Support System for the Basal Readers," an oral language guide that is a compilation of objectives and activities that use a sequential and systematic approach to develop language skills and concepts. Designed to help teachers and other instructional personnel in the implementation of…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Behavioral Objectives, Comprehension, Elementary Education
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Hamalainen, Eila – 1977
This paper discusses subject-verb-complement (SVC) clauses and their renderings in English and Finnish. Comparisons are made on the level of surface structure and with regard to equivalence in the sense of one construction being an optimum translation of the other. The definition of congruence, i.e., formal similarity and equal number of…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages)
Wilson, Craig B. – 1977
The experiment reported measured the degree to which cloze tests deliberately biased on the basis of contrastive analysis would actually be harder for Vietnamese than for speakers of other languages. The experiment tested the approach to ESL (English as a second language) for Vietnamese described in a guide for teachers of Vietnamese refugees…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Interference (Language)
Armstrong, Robert G.; Awujoola, Robert L. – 1969
This introduction to elementary Yoruba is divided into two parts. The first section is on sound drills, and the second section concerns Yoruba greetings. The first part includes exercises to enable the student to master the Yoruba sound system. Emphasis is on pronunciation and recognition of the sounds and tones, but not memorization. A tape is…
Descriptors: African Languages, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction, Language Usage
Alamelu, L. V. – Newsletter of Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, 1978
English grammar testing practices from the middle school level to the first two years of the bachelor's degree in India are examined, and suggestions for change are presented. Ten to thirty percent of the total marks allotted to question papers in English are set aside for the testing of grammar and usage. It is argued that syllabuses at present…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Objectives, English (Second Language)
Matthews, Dorothy, Ed. – Illinois English Bulletin, 1980
The focus of this journal edition is remedial writing instruction in high school and college. Articles in the journal are: "The Remedial Student is Different," by Karl K. Taylor; "Writing Apprehension: (I) Combating Fear of Failure," by Donna K. Gorrell; "Writing Apprehension: (II) Where Does Fear of Writing Come…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Basic Skills, College Students, Developmental Programs
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Crowhurst, Marion – 1978
Compositions in the narrative and argumentative modes of discourse were collected from 240 students (40 boys and 40 girls each from grades 6, 10, and 12) and analyzed for mean T-unit length to determine any differences in syntactic complexity across modes of discourse or grade levels. At each grade level, T-unit length was significantly greater in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Difficulty Level, Discourse Analysis, Educational Research
Smith, Dennis R. – 1969
The effect was investigated of diadic, peer group discussion, and role-playing communication patterns on level of abstraction, length of response, and complexity of sentence structure in the speech of children from low socioeconomic environments in response to a verbal task using 2 levels of abstraction (objects and pictures of objects). Subjects…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Classroom Communication, Communication Problems, Communication Skills
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