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Alsubaiai, Hanan Sarhan – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study aims to assess the evidence regarding the relationship between previous and new schools of linguistics. According to Kuhn (1970), old linguistic paradigms incorporate vocabulary and apparatus from previous or traditional paradigms. In particular, this review addresses the Question: Do new paradigms in linguistic arise from old or…
Descriptors: Correlation, Generative Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Comparative Analysis
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Jabbarifar, Taghi – Journal of International Education Research, 2014
This study presents an overall review of the paradigms that contribute to the making and development of functional human linguistics and communication skills and the teaching of language.
Descriptors: English Instruction, Communication Skills, Linguistics, Structural Linguistics
Koga, Kant – Online Submission, 2010
Language attracts everyone on earth. That is because we have and use language. Although there are some minority languages that have limited expressions such as the lack of writing systems in "Aynu itak" and "Shona" languages, they can effectively express their emotion and thought with their languages. In addition, every human being can acquire…
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Sentences, Semantics, Grammar
Chametzky, Robert A. – 1996
The language arts are constructed like a doughnut or a bagel, so that at their center where there might be something, there is instead a hole--emptiness. The dominant approach to understanding the nature of language--generative grammar--does not suggest a center for the language arts. An alternative approach to language and mind is "cognitive…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Generative Grammar, Language Arts, Linguistics
Smith, Carl B., Ed. – 2003
Contemporary syntactic theory rejects the idea that prescriptive grammar can provide students with any insights into how language works. For generative grammar, a term for the aggregate of methodologies which currently dominates modern linguistics, rules determining the grammaticality of a sentence do not relate in any way to the rules which make…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Generative Grammar
Arndt, Horst; Careless, Brian J. – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1978
Surveys current developments in linguistics and other disciplines which influence language teaching methodology. A brief bibliography is appended. (AM)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Educational Trends, Language Instruction, Linguistics