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Gardner, Howard – Roeper Review, 2022
Few individuals--whether scholars or laypersons--think that the words "smart" or "intelligent" suffice to characterize a person's intellectual strengths. In this article, the author reviews a set of terms commonly used to characterize intellectual strengths and then introduces the concept of "synthesizing"--an…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Usage, Language Variation, Intelligence
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Dunn, Peter K.; Carey, Michael D.; Richardson, Alice M.; McDonald, Christine – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2016
Learning statistics requires learning the language of statistics. Statistics draws upon words from general English, mathematical English, discipline-specific English and words used primarily in statistics. This leads to many linguistic challenges in teaching statistics and the way in which the language is used in statistics creates an extra layer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Statistics, Mathematics Education
Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong; Flores, Eden R. – Online Submission, 2016
For the past few decades, stylistics has emerged as a discipline that encompasses both literary criticism and linguistics. The integration of both disciplines opened many opportunities for English literature and language teachers to get creative in their teaching--by introducing the stylistic approach in their classrooms. However, in a typical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Porto, Melina – Education 3-13, 2011
This paper explores the role of lexical phrases in language education in general (native language or L1; and second/foreign language or L2) and more specifically, in the education of English learners in US and European contexts as well as in other English-speaking countries worldwide. Even though this topic has been addressed by researchers and…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Ibrahim, Amr Helmy – Francais dans le Monde, 1984
A relatively common way to establish a new verb is to give verbal form to a noun, but it also exposes some irregularities of the language, and the rules that govern it. Although this is largely a phenomenon of the twentieth century, evidence of it appears in Rabelais' work. (MSE)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, French, Grammar, Language Usage
Rhode, Mary – 1975
The sources used, the procedures followed, and the results obtained in updating the kindergarten through grade six communication skills lexicon are covered in this report. The final list of 322 new terms included in the lexicon are appended. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Dictionaries, Elementary Education
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Adams, Thomasenia Lott; Thangata, Fiona; King, Cindy – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2005
This article focuses on the dynamics of language in the context of mathematics. The interaction of everyday words and specialized mathematics vocabulary impacts students' development of mathematical understanding. (Contains 4 tables and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Middle School Students, Secondary School Mathematics, Vocabulary Development
Tickoo, Makhan Lal – Guidelines: A Periodical for Classroom Language Teachers, 1988
Researchers at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom) have built a large database of every-day English and dictionary (COBUILD) for producing better English-as-a-Second/Foreign-Language teaching and learning materials. The lexical syllabus and the English course that has evolved from is are discussed. (23 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Assisted Instruction, Dictionaries, English (Second Language)
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Holmes, Janet – Applied Linguistics, 1988
Considers previous research and data regarding the relative frequencies of a wide variety of lexical items expressing doubt and certainty in written and spoken corpuses and uses the data to evaluate the adequacy of some well-known English as a second language textbooks. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Instructional Effectiveness, Language Usage
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Richards, Brian – Journal of Child Language, 1987
Type/Token Ratios (TTRs) frequently fail to discriminate between children at widely different stages of language development, and may fall as children get older. Such effects are caused by a negative, though non-linear, relationship between sample size and TTR. Standardization of the number of tokens before computing TTRs is recommended.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Research
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Inkelas, Sharon; Orgun, Cemil Orhan – Language, 1995
Supports the theory of level ordering by demonstrating, on the basis of productive morphology and phonology, that Turkish has four lexical levels. The first is the principle of Level Economy, which accounts for systematic exceptionality. The second is Level Prespecification, which exempts a root entirely from early lexical levels. Both of these…
Descriptors: Consonants, Data Analysis, Distinctive Features (Language), Hypothesis Testing