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Peer reviewedTitone, Renzo – System, 1979
Outlines concerns regarding needed adjustments in the teaching of reading to cope with a changing, complex world. (JB)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Language Instruction, Language Processing, Psycholinguistics
Bernstein, Wolf – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1979
Laments the lack of attention given to interference in vocabulary learning as contrasted with that accorded to interference in the communicative function of language, because the former is of greater qualitative importance. Gives examples from several languages showing the origins and bases of interference. (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Interference (Language), Language Instruction, Language Processing
Kielhoefer, Bernd – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1978
An experiment with 100 German students of French showed that with the word "profond" the students' semantic associations were based on the mother tongue, whereas with the word "rapide" they were more oriented to the French syntax. Semantic problems are both linguistic and sociocultural in nature. (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: French, German, Interference (Language), Interlanguage
Aitken, Kenneth G. – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1979
Presents an overview of "constructivist" models of speech perception and information processing and reviews a variety of aural comprehension evaluation techniques which reflect those models. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Auditory Perception, Language Instruction, Language Processing
Izumi, Masuko; And Others – Journal of the National Association of Learning Laboratory Directors, 1979
Discusses why and how language laboratories are used in Japan to develop aural perception and comprehension and oral production in English. Presents some practical suggestions for the preparation of relevant teaching materials. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Aural Learning, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedChu-Chang, Mae; Loritz, Donald J. – Language Learning, 1977
Twenty-two Cantonese-speaking Chinese students and 16 Spanish-speaking students were tested for short-term memory encoding strategies on word-recognition tests. Chinese speakers were found to encode Chinese ideographs phonologically, but both Chinese and Spanish learners of English were found to encode English words visually. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Chinese, English (Second Language), Ideography
Peer reviewedLamendella, John T. – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
Reexamines the question of why pattern practice fails by hypothesizing about the information processing activities that they entail. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: Aphasia, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Language Instruction
Peer reviewedMarks, Sonia – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1977
This paper reviews some of the strategies the receiver uses in the process of comprehending a message in a foreign language and discusses some of the ways in which the listener/reader goes beyond the actual physical form of the message during this process. The role of guessing is discussed in the context of the following theories: the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deep Structure, Guessing (Tests)
