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Peer reviewedBordage, Georges; Lemieux, Madeleine – Academic Medicine, 1991
The diagnostic discourse of medical students and physicians in thinking-aloud protocols on paper cases was analyzed for evidence of semantic structure. Results show that structural semantics can be used to distinguish various levels of mental processing among novices as well as between novices and professionals. (MSE)
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
Strain, Jeris E. – 1986
A symposium of language learning specialists reviewing C.C. Fries' Oral Approach to English language instruction developed and used at the English Language Institute of the University of Michigan is summarized. The thesis of the symposium was that the basic Oral Approach concepts had and continue to have a profound and far-reaching, though largely…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis
Tushyeh, Hanna Y. – 1986
Points of similarity and contrast between English and Modern Standard Arabic in relativization are examined. It is concluded that while the relativization process is essentially the same in both languages, they differ with respect to the relative pronoun, the agreement of the relative pronoun with its antecedent, and the appearance of the…
Descriptors: Arabic, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English
Download full textCohen, Andrew D.; And Others – 1985
A study of the structure of the speech act known as an apology looked at the differences in linguistic strategies used by advanced nonnative English language learners and native speakers in apology behavior, and whether the differences result from the severity of the offense or the familiarity of the interlocutors. An apology is seen as consisting…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, College Students, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis
Mizuno, Mitsuharu – Kanagawa University Studies in Language, 1998
A classroom technique for English-as-a-Second-Language instruction using comparative (first- and second-language) sentence analysis is described. The goal is to enhance acquisition of English through internalizing a certain number of sample sentences in English that contrast with the learner's first language (L1). The sentences consist of about…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language)
Bartlett, Elsa J.; Wilson, Jay C. – 1982
A research project investigated the development of narrative rhetoric in students in grades 3 through 8 in New York City public schools. Two types of tasks were used, the first requiring students to write a story about the events depicted in a drawing, the second asking them to correct rhetorical problems in prepared narratives. A series of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages
Orozco, Cecilio – 1983
A guide for using language contrasts to understand and teach pronunciation differences in English and Spanish proposes that all languages are learned in basically the same order, phonetics (listening and speaking) and graphemics (reading and writing). Language can be broken down so that understandable elements (phonology, morphology, syntax, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)
