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Sharples, Robert – Multilingual Matters, 2021
This book offers an evidence-based guide to EAL for everyone who works with multilingual learners. It provides a concise, helpful introduction to the latest research underpinning three key areas of EAL practice: (1) How children acquire additional languages? (2) How language works across the curriculum? and (3) How you can establish outstanding…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism
Ortega, Lourdes, Ed.; Han, ZhaoHong, Ed. – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2017
This volume is both a state-of-the-art display of current thinking on second language development as a complex system. It is also a tribute to Diane Larsen-Freeman for her decades of intellectual leadership in the academic disciplines of applied linguistics and second language acquisition. The chapters therein range from theoretical expositions to…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Applied Linguistics
Wu, Kam-Yin – Guidelines, 1992
It is argued that linguistics is relevant to the teaching of English despite the prevailing skepticism about its usefulness. The relationships between linguistics and language pedagogy are explained. (Contains 19 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Instruction
Morley, Joan – 1983
Four areas relating to listening and language learning are examined: current directions in second language instruction, listening instruction in second language programs, listening as a means to an end versus listening comprehension as an end in itself, and the influence of listening research on materials development for second language…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Listening Comprehension, Listening Skills, Second Language Instruction

Tan, Fu – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1993
A correspondence is shown between grammatical categories and grammatical functions in Chinese. Some syntactic properties distinguish finite verbs from nonfinite verbs, nominals from other categories, and verbs from other categories. (Contains seven references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Grammar, Linguistic Theory

Murphy, John M.; Prabhu, N. S. – TESOL Quarterly, 1993
Prabhu's writing about ways in which second-language students, teachers, and specialists influence events that take place during classroom lessons is critiqued. It is suggested that greater recognition of second-language theorists and pedagogical specialists is in order. Prabhu acknowledges the suggestions. (42 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Linguistic Theory
Maley, Alan – MEXTESOL Journal, 1982
Theories of learning, views of language, program design, methodology, and psychosocial factors related to foreign language teaching are discussed. Learning theories are examined with reference to acquisition and learning, errors and mistakes, and input and intake. Regarding views of language, in general there has been a shift from concern over the…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Linguistic Theory, Program Design, Second Language Instruction

Yeh, Ling-Hsia – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1993
The device of employing adverbs as quantifiers is common in daily use of Modern Chinese. Quantifiers that have the closest glossed meanings are compared, based partly on a survey of 13 native speakers of Mandarin. Findings suggest that certain quantifiers cannot be characterized uniformly because of inherently different properties. (Contains six…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics

Kempchinsky, Paula – Hispania, 1992
In a discussion of possessives in Spanish, it is shown that three morphosyntactic constructs are systematically linked. The possessive dative construction, inalienable possession and nonrestrictive adjectives, and inalienable possession with subjects are examined. (25 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages), Second Language Instruction
Durieu, Christine – Francais dans le Monde, 1991
A discussion of translation and second-language instruction looks at the difference between translation used as a tool for teaching a second language and professional translation. It is argued that an interpretive theory of translation necessarily underlies its teaching. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Strategies, Educational Theories, French
Cobb, Victoria – Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1989
A discussion of the process of learning to write in a second language (L2) looks at how theory and research on first language (L1) composition and L2 acquisition influence the study of L2 composition. Three perspectives are examined: (1) the approach to writing that focuses on the text itself, including comparison of native L1 and L2 rhetorical…
Descriptors: Language Research, Learning Processes, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Instruction
Hubbard, Philip – 1984
A theory introduced by Ronald Langacker is used to analyze the English modal auxiliary verb system. The theory synthesizes generative semantics and notions from cognitive psychology, and posits a close link between form and meaning and denies the existence of autonomous syntactic and semantic components in linguistic structure. The intent of the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages), Grammar

Nemni, Monique – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1985
Four vocabulary instruction problems are addressed on practical and theoretical levels: how to select vocabulary, organize it effectively, convey the meaning of words, and improve retention of new words through meaningful practice. Suggestions are given for using creative activities that are both educationally and linguistically sound. (MSE)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development, French

Oller, John W., Jr. – TESOL Quarterly, 1983
Four hypotheses of language use and acquisition are used to support the suggestion that story-telling techniques may be helpful in making ESL materials meaningful, recallable, and comprehensible. Eleven specific principles are discussed and illustrated. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Instructional Materials, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory

Sparks, Richard; Ganschow, Leonore – Modern Language Journal, 1993
A theoretical basis for a first-/second-language link is presented along with an explanation of why current global theories of language are incomplete. Implications for foreign language (FL) methodology and instruction for students with FL learning problems are addressed. (123 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Research, Learning Problems, Linguistic Theory