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Associations or Rules in Learning Language?
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Kolata, Gina – Science, 1987
Discusses prevailing ideas of how children learn language and addresses the argument of rules versus analogies in learning to form the past tense of verbs. Cites cases involving connectionist models. (ML)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Grammar, Language Processing, Language Research
English Grammatical Structure and the Hausa Student: Problem Areas.
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Adeyanju, Thomas K. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1979
Demonstrates how Sector Analysis theory can serve as a model for the contrastive analysis of the grammars of any two languages. Examples are provided for English and Hausa. (AM)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Grammar, Hausa
A Psycholinguistic Model of Reading
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Pearson, P. David – Language Arts, 1976
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Models, Oral Reading
Linguistic Coding Deficits in Foreign Language Learners.
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Sparks, Richard; And Others – Annals of Dyslexia, 1989
A theoretical framework is presented for understanding difficulties in foreign language learning, based upon a linguistic coding model that hypothesizes deficits in phonological, syntactic, and semantic information processing. Incidence of linguistic coding problems in 22 college-enrolled or college-bound students who petitioned to have the…
Descriptors: Coding, College Students, High Schools, Higher Education
Contact Analysis of English and Persian Measure Words for Pedagogical Purposes.
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Yarmohammadi, Lotfollah – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1980
The syntactic distribution and behavior of five English and Persian "measure" nouns and their adjectives are compared. From this, errors attributable to transference and those due to inconsistencies in English are enumerated. A unified analytic model of Persian errors in learning English suggests useful teaching strategies. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Coherence and the Sharing of Meaning: Supporting Underachieving Readers.
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Smith, Judith; Elkins, John – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1992
A study found that both paradigmatic and syntagmatic aspects of text were important for signifying meaning of text in the reading comprehension of 102 Australian students at 3 age levels (10, 12, and 14 years). Underlying comprehension problems was a lack of prior experience of text topics. Reading preparation through developing shared meanings is…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Coherence, Elementary Secondary Education, Knowledge Level
Process/pra/,ses/n: The action of Moving Forward Progressively from One Point to Another on the Way to Completion.
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Prutting, Carol A. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1979
The article presents a rationale for the application of a stage process model to provide speech clinicians with guidelines, based on complexity, for the content and sequencing of communicative behaviors to be used in planning remedial programs for children with language disorders. (Author/DLS)
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Developmental Stages, Language Handicaps, Language Instruction
Hearing Impaired: Curriculum Guide.
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Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1983
The curriculum guide is intended to assist families, school administrators, and teachers providing educational services to hearing impaired (HI) children in regular and special classes in Alberta, Canada. Explained in the introduction are such curriculum aspects as goals and purpose, population to be served, eligibility criteria, three…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Art, Auditory Training, Communication Skills