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Peer reviewedRomani, Cristina – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1992
An aphasic patient is described as one whose poor repetition of sentences and of lists of words contrasts with his or her surprisingly good performance on immediate problem recognition tasks. This result is interpreted as suggesting a distinction between phonological input and output buffers. (41 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Aphasia, Communication Disorders, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
Gundem, Bjorg B. – 1989
A research project concerned with the development of English as a school subject in the Norwegian elementary and junior high school identifies and describes British and American influences on the theoretical climate of foreign language teaching in Western Europe from the 1950's to the 1970's. A distinct British influence, the so-called Palmer,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences, Curriculum Development, Educational Technology
Direct linkBhattacharya, Alpana – Remedial and Special Education, 2006
This article describes a strategic approach for reading and comprehending scientific information from a middle school science textbook. First, the word-reading skills of children with and without reading difficulties are compared. Second, studies investigating the effectiveness of a syllable-based reading approach on the word-reading skills of…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Difficulties, Middle Schools, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
Peer reviewedFinneman, Michael D. – Modern Language Journal, 1987
While foreign language textbooks have improved in recent years, the standard grammatical base remains unchanged. Instead of the usual morphologically-based syllabus, a semantico-grammatical one is suggested in which the categories, relating meaning and form, make it possible to teach language structure in a coherent and communicatively relevant…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Language Proficiency, Morphology (Languages), Notional Functional Syllabi
Download full textHladka, Barbora; Hajic, Jan – 1995
An experiment compared the tagging of two languages: Czech, a highly inflected language with a high degree of ambiguity, and English. For Czech, the corpus was one gathered in the 1970s at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences; for English, it was the Wall Street Journal corpus. Results indicate 81.53 percent accuracy for Czech and 96.83 percent…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Computer Software, Contrastive Linguistics
Andersson, Erik; Ostman, Jan-Ola – 1978
The encoding of Swedish syntactic information in a study of linguistic data processing is described in detail. The choice of syntactic variables and classification criteria, illustrated with examples, is also discussed. In addition, uses of the coding for contrasting languages, as in this study's comparison of Swedish, Finnish, and English word…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Data Processing
