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Rutherford, Marty – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2009
This paper is about a writing and literary translation program called Poetry Inside Out (PIO). Students in the PIO program study poetic form and structure, figurative language, and the fundamentals of literary translation in an extended workshop format. During a typical Poetry Inside Out workshop, participants read, discuss, translate and recite…
Descriptors: Translation, Spanish, English, Syntax
Chou, Chun-Hui; Bartz, Kevin – California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, 2007
This paper evaluates the effect of Chinese non-native English-speaking teachers (NNESTs) on Chinese ESL students' struggles with English syntax. The paper first classifies Chinese learners' syntactic errors into 10 common types. It demonstrates how each type of error results from an internal attempt to translate a common Chinese construction into…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language)