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Rampton, Ben – Modern Language Journal, 2013
This article analyses the styles of English produced by an adult migrant who started to speak the language later in life, and it approaches them from the perspective of quantitative style-shifting and discursive stylization. After defining style and the procedures needed to justify the term "L2," the study describes the focal informant's…
Descriptors: Language Styles, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Blyth, Carl – Modern Language Journal, 1997
Demonstrates how a constructivist approach to teacher education helps inexperienced teachers understand learning and teaching of aspect, a core grammatical concept. By consciously experiencing the process of narration, apprentice teachers construct deeper awareness of form/meaning aspectual correlations of the target language. More generally,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Constructivism (Learning), Grammar, Language Patterns