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Peer reviewedGarner, Mark – Babel: Journal of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teacher's Association, 1979
Reports on an experiment in native speaker judgement of acceptability, designed to test the acceptability of variations on the time-manner-place order in German adverbs. Implications for teaching German are drawn. (AM)
Descriptors: Adverbs, German, Grammar, Language Instruction
Download full textKaplan, Robert B. – 1978
It is contended that there are such things as discourse blocs, and that they are composed of discourse units glued together into a contextuated whole by bloc signals. There are three kinds of structures with which it is necessary to deal in order to discuss coherent discourse: the discourse bloc, the discourse unit, and the bloc signal.…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Language Instruction
Amilcar Cipriano, Nestor – Yelmo, 1979
This concluding article in a series concerning the use of the comma in Spanish gives specific examples of its use from Spanish literature. Concluding remarks outline the major purposes of the comma. (NCR)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Instruction, Punctuation, Second Language Learning
Soga, Matsuo; Fujimura, Taiji – Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 1978
Discusses the construction "Sentence + no + Noun" in contemporary Japanese. (AM)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Deep Structure, Grammar, Japanese
Peer reviewedMcTear, Michael F. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1979
Reviews aspects of Halliday's Systemic-Functional Grammar, emphasizing language functions, modality vs modulation, process types, transitivity, information distribution, and cohesion. Implications for language teaching are discussed. (AM)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Intonation
Cervera, Alicia – Yelmo, 1978
Discusses ways of teaching complementary pronouns in Spanish, includinq pronouns of direct objects, reflexive verbs, and indirect objects. (NCR)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Instruction, Language Patterns, Pronouns
Peer reviewedSchaarschmidt, Gunter – Russian Language Journal, 1979
Describes a sequence for teaching the Russian passive construction to exemplify how a learning sequence based on a contrastive analysis and on error analysis can lessen student errors. These errors are caused either by interference from the first language or over-generalization in the second language. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Interference (Language), Language Instruction
Peer reviewedTadros, A. A. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1979
The following error made by Sudanese students in their written English is discussed: giving the direct translation of relative pronoun plus personal pronoun from the Arabic pattern instead of the relative pronoun. The structure of the relative clause in English and Arabic is also compared. (SW)
Descriptors: Arabic, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Alamelu, L. V. – Newsletter of Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, 1978
English grammar testing practices from the middle school level to the first two years of the bachelor's degree in India are examined, and suggestions for change are presented. Ten to thirty percent of the total marks allotted to question papers in English are set aside for the testing of grammar and usage. It is argued that syllabuses at present…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Objectives, English (Second Language)
