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Ondrej Klabal – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2024
This paper is based within the framework of step-by-step approach to teaching legal translation. The underlying philosophy behind this approach is that when specific aspects of legal translations are tackled in isolation and trainees become aware of the pitfalls involved and the possible solutions, this helps them in further training as well as in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Translation, Syntax, Second Languages
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Nino Sharashenidze – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2024
Taking into account the peculiarities of the Georgian language and integrating them into the teaching process remains an important task. Georgian is an agglutinative language, which means the existence of grammatical markers in word-forms related to certain semantic features. The system of the Georgian verb is unique in that it is based on…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Semantics, Grammar, Verbs
Gu, Wenyuan – Online Submission, 2022
The purpose of this article is to help ESL (English as a Second Language) students or English language learners (ELLs) how to express or use moods correctly when they study English. The expression of moods was summarized and illustrated from various examples cited or given, on the basis of the writer's more than twenty years' teaching experience…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Second Language Instruction, Textbooks
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Yang, Shizhou – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2022
The translanguaging theory encourages language teachers to view their learners' linguistic backgrounds as a resource for creative expression. This article proposes an autoethnographically oriented application of the translanguging approach to studying emergent bilingual creativity in online communication. It includes three steps--storytelling,…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Translation, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction
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Huang, Ping-Yu; Tsao, Nai-Lung – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
In this article, we describe an online English collocation explorer developed to help English L2 learners produce correct and appropriate collocations. Our tool, which is able to visually represent relevant correct/incorrect collocations on a single webpage, was designed based on the notions of collocation clusters and intercollocability proposed…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Error Correction
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Ramscar, Michael – Journal of Child Language, 2021
How do children learn to communicate, and what do they learn? Traditionally, most theories have taken an associative, compositional approach to these questions, supposing children acquire an inventory of form-meaning associations, and procedures for composing / decomposing them; into / from messages in production and comprehension. This paper…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Discrimination Learning, Learning Theories
Gu, Wenyuan – Online Submission, 2019
The use of the infinitive was summarized and illustrated from various examples, on the basis of the writer's teaching experience, and extensive review of different English grammar books, reference books, magazines, newspapers, books, and English dictionaries, in order for English language learners (whose native language is not English) to further…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Verbs, Language Usage, Grammar
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Dye, Cristina; Kedar, Yarden; Lust, Barbara – First Language, 2019
Scholars of language development have long been challenged to understand the development of functional categories. Traditionally, it was assumed that children's language development initially relies on lexical elements, while functional elements become accessible only at later periods; and that it is lexical growth which bootstraps grammatical…
Descriptors: Child Language, Nouns, Verbs, Form Classes (Languages)
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Lobel, Jason William; Surbano, Orlando Vertudez – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2019
Nearly half a century has passed since Philippine educator Teodoro Llamzon discovered the Remontado language, which would be introduced to the world in a master's thesis written by his student Pilar Santos. Although data from the wordlists they collected have been included in subsequent publications by several other authors, no one had revisited…
Descriptors: Documentation, Language Research, Word Lists, Language Maintenance
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Lobel, Jason William; Alpay, Amy Jugueta; Barreno, Rosie Susutin; Barreno, Emelinda Jugueta – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2020
Arguably the most critically-endangered language in the Philippines, Inagta Alabat (also known as Inagta Lopez and Inagta Villa Espina) is spoken by fewer than ten members of the small Agta community on the island of Alabat off the northern coast of Quezon Province on the large northern Philippine island of Luzon, and by an even smaller number of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Malayo Polynesian Languages, Language Minorities, Sociolinguistics
Gu, Wenyuan – Online Submission, 2018
Five basic types of the English verb were summarized and illustrated with many examples on the basis of the writer's teaching experience and extensive review of various literatures from different English grammar books, reference books, and the consultation of English dictionaries, in order for those English language learners to further understand…
Descriptors: Verbs, English, Grammar, English Language Learners
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Arunachalam, Sudha; Luyster, Rhiannon J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: Most children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have below-age lexical knowledge and lexical representation. Our goal is to examine ways in which difficulties with social communication and language processing that are often associated with ASD may constrain these children's abilities to learn new words and to explore whether minimizing…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Young Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Pollock, Joy; Waller, Elisabeth – David Fulton Publishers, 2018
"English Grammar and Teaching Strategies" aims to demystify grammar and equip any teacher to teach it in the classroom. Carefully set out for ease of reference, this book covers every aspect of grammar, from nouns, adjectives and verbs to punctuation and prepositions. Each grammatical term is clearly defined and accompanied by varieties…
Descriptors: English Instruction, English, Grammar, Teaching Methods
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Smith, Garrett; Franck, Julie; Tabor, Whitney – Cognitive Science, 2018
We present a self-organizing approach to sentence processing that sheds new light on notional plurality effects in agreement attraction, using pseudopartitive subject noun phrases (e.g., "a bottle of pills"). We first show that notional plurality ratings (numerosity judgments for subject noun phrases) predict verb agreement choices in…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Sentences, Grammar, Form Classes (Languages)
Porosoff, Lauren – Phi Delta Kappan, 2018
What teachers write about students has enormous potential to affect their lives. Lauren Porosoff encourages teachers to use their words to empower students to take an active role in their own learning. When teachers use adjectives to describe students, they may be attaching certain fixed characteristics to those students. Verbs, on the other hand,…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Language Usage, Nouns, Verbs
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