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Kahraman, Mehmet; Subasi, Gonca – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2022
The present study aims to reveal the use of high-frequency verbs "make" and "do" when they occur in a verb+noun combination in the argumentative essays of Turkish learners of English. In this context, the present study investigated the grammatical and semantic patterns and erroneous productions in the learner corpus. The…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Language Usage, Persuasive Discourse
Giles, Matt; Pines, Rachyl; Giles, Howard – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This paper expands the theoretical base of intergroup and intercultural communication by testing a new communication model of interdependence (CMII), defined in terms of the embedded nature of groups Giles, M., R. Pines, H. Giles, and A. Gardikiotis. 2018. "Towards a Communication Model of Intergroup Interdependence." Atlantic Journal of…
Descriptors: Intergroup Relations, Intercultural Communication, International Relations, Language Attitudes
L2 Distribution of Chinese Connectives: Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of a Discourse Grammar
Lu, Yuan – Second Language Research, 2019
This study investigated second language distribution of Chinese connectives by tallying responses on a mini-discourse completion test taken by English-speaking learners with different language learning backgrounds and at different proficiency levels. The results showed that an underuse pattern underlay practically all Chinese connectives as a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Chinese, Form Classes (Languages), Cognitive Ability
Yang, Chunli – English Language Teaching, 2010
Idioms is a special culture which is shaped in the daily lives of the local people, particularly the idioms of diet has a close relation with various elements, such as the eating custom, history, fairy tales, geographic situations. Also, different ways of translation on different diet idioms in English and Chinese will be analyzed in this article.…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Chinese, English, Language Usage

He, Baozhang – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1990
An analysis of two textbook series commonly used to teach university-level Chinese identifies obsolete conventions, expressions, and classifiers and other problems in the series, published over 20 years ago, and suggests some updated supplementary materials that could be used with the series. (CB)
Descriptors: Chinese, Higher Education, Language Patterns, Language Usage
Bryson, Bill – 1994
Claiming that understanding the social context in which words are formed is necessary to appreciate the richness and vitality of language, this book presents an informal, discursive examination of how and why American speech came to be the way it is, and in particular where the words came from. The book follows a roughly chronological format from…
Descriptors: Idioms, Language Patterns, Language Usage, Language Variation

Gathercole, Virginia C. – Journal of Child Language, 1986
Analysis of 12 Scottish and 12 American 3- to 6-year-olds interacting with adults indicated that, because Scottish adults use the present perfect tense more frequently in their speech to children than American adults do, Scottish children use the tense in their speech long before American children do. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Adults, English, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
Minami, Masahiko – 1994
Conversations between mothers and children from three different cultural groups were analyzed to determine culturally preferred narrative elicitation patterns. The three groups included Japanese-speaking mother-child pairs living in Japan, Japanese-speaking, mother-child pairs living in the United States, and English-speaking Canadian mother-child…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
Minami, Masahiko – 1994
Two studies examined conversations between mothers and children from three different groups to determine culturally preferred narrative elicitation patterns: (1) Japanese-speaking mother-child pairs living in Japan; (2) Japanese-speaking mother-child pairs living in the United States; and (3) English-speaking Canadian mother-child pairs.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
Singerman, Robert – 1996
This bibliography lists 1,679 doctoral dissertations and master's theses on Native American languages. The entries represent graduate work completed at colleges and universities in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom between 1892 and 1992. Citations for this bibliography were gathered through an extensive search of the printed…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, American Indian Studies, American Indians
Ho, Kwok Keung, Ed. – New Horizons in Education, 1998
The annual issue of the journal of the Hong Kong Teachers Association includes these articles: "The Time Management Issue of Tertiary Students: An Investigation of Tuition Conductors in Singapore" (Tai Chee Wong, Jessie Yuk Yong Wong); "The Analysis of the Phenomena of Parkinson in Course of School Management" (Ying Xiu Yang)…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Comparative Education, Educational Policy