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Bethin, Christina Y. – Russian Language Journal, 1983
It is proposed that the concepts of location and goal are helpful instructional tools in Russian, encouraging competence and discouraging incorrect analyses of sentence structure. Minor reorganization of conventional instructional materials and addition of a few sentences for discussion would be of significant assistance in student understanding.…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Form Classes (Languages), Language Patterns, Language Processing
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Hutson, Barbara A. – Language Arts, 1980
Presents a perspective on the system of language levels and logical operations that effective language users employ. Offers a rational for teaching this language system. Suggests activities for "moving language around" to help students develop concepts about language structures. (RL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Patterns, Language Processing, Language Skills
Wilson, Robert D. – 1979
A schema developed for the teaching of reading involves five factors: learning, language, clues, mediums of communication, and adaptive processes. Learning involves four tasks, taught in the following sequence: comprehension, comparison of semantic shapes, composition of the whole into parts, and concentration. There are four general language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cues, Elementary Education
Nattinger, James R. – 1985
The position this paper assumes views vocabulary not as single words but as phrases, sentences, and sometimes entire segments of discourse that act as single words. This view of vocabulary would be helpful in: (1) bringing the vocabulary aspect of instruction in English as a second language (ESL) closer to current research in language performance,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Language Patterns, Language Processing
Fischer-Kohn, Elaine – 1986
The approaches used for reading instruction in the United States and in the People's Republic of China are different and incompatible. In China, English reading is taught intensively, through close-reading or detailed oral analysis of brief texts and with great attention to individual words and phrases. This "bottom-up" processing style,…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Education, Contrastive Linguistics
Morley, Joan, Ed. – 1987
A collection of essays on pronunciation instruction theory and practice includes: "Teaching Pronunciation as Communication" (Marianne Celce-Murcia); "Learner Variables and Prepronunciation Considerations in Teaching Pronunciation" (Rita Wong); "Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension" (Judy B. Gilbert); "Pronunciation Tutorials for Nonnative…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Educational Strategies, English (Second Language)
Schmitt, Norbert; Schmitt, Diane Rae – Thai TESOL Bulletin, 1993
This article discusses second language vocabulary learning strategies and includes an analysis and classification of possible strategies and the report of a study conducted among second language learners in Japan. Research on vocabulary learning strategies is synthesized into two lists of strategies: 14 methods for initial learning of a new word's…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Wen, Xiaohong – 1998
This paper contends that many of the difficulties students of Chinese have in reading comprehension are directly related to their level of understanding of Chinese language and culture, and that these difficulties could be alleviated by providing students with knowledge about the value system, social customs, formation of Chinese characters and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Chinese Culture, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction