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Naigles, Letitia R., Ed. – APA Books, 2017
In recent decades, a growing number of children have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a condition characterized by social interaction deficits and language impairment. Yet the precise nature of the disorder's impact on language development is not well understood, in part because of the language variability among children across…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments
Brown, Gillian, Ed.; And Others – 1994
This collection of 10 reports focuses on research in the area of language and understanding, with emphasis on the effects of such research on language teaching and applied linguistics. The reports address issues in psycholinguistics, pragmatics, second language acquisition, syntax, text linguistics, language testing, and sociolinguistics. The…
Descriptors: Definitions, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes, Language Proficiency
Sacco, Margaret Close – 1976
This workbook is part of "Contact Canada," a course for teaching English as a second language to adult Francophones. The specific aim of this booklet is to teach the meaningful use of the progressive present tense through comparison and contrast with simple present tense usage. The workbook, which is accompanied by a six-minute animated…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comprehension, English (Second Language), Grammar
Croft, Kenneth, Ed. – 1972
This collection of readings on the topic of teaching English as a second language (ESL) has a twofold purpose: to enlarge the ESL teacher's awareness of the field and to assist in the professional growth of the new teacher or teacher-trainee. Each of the book's nine sections deal with one area of ESL instruction. Section 1, "Trends and Practices,"…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Educational Media, English (Second Language), Grammar
Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen, Ed.; Hartford, Beverly, Ed. – 1997
This collection of essays gives an overview of the different disciplines that inform language teaching and language teacher education. They include the following titles: "The Case for Psycholinguistics" (Bill VanPatten); "The Place of Second Language Acquisition Theory in Language Teacher Preparation" (Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig); "Why Syntactic…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), French, Grammar, Higher Education
Taeschner, Traute – 1991
A discussion of the role of developmental psycholinguistics in second language instruction begins by examining the nature of communicative intentions, their classification, and their role in the language classroom, drawing parallels between first language acquisition and second language learning. Stages in the progression from single words to…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Child Language, Class Activities, Communication (Thought Transfer)