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Bada, Erdogan – ELT Journal, 2006
While reading or speaking, individuals break up sentences into "meaningful chunks." This is true of any individual with any language background. Failure to do so, in an L2 context, leads to idiosyncrasies, and may possibly create some comprehensibility problems. In this study, native and non-native speakers of English read an authentic text into a…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages)
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Henzell-Thomas, Jeremy – ELT Journal, 1985
Defines concession and suggests eight criteria which may be used when producing materials designed to practice the use of connectives such as "although" to express concession in English. These criteria include materials, which reflect typically unexpected consequences and a culturally familiar world, and practice, which goes beyond the…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Criteria, English (Second Language), Function Words
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Boers, Frank; Demecheleer, Murielle – ELT Journal, 1998
Prepositions have different but related senses. In cognitive semantics, figurative senses are extended from spatial senses through conceptual metaphors. Pedagogically, it is useful to draw learners' attention to those aspects of a preposition's spatial sense that are especially relevant for its metaphorization. Ways in which cognitive semantic…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Comprehension, Educational Strategies, English (Second Language)
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Crewe, W. J. – ELT Journal, 1990
Examines the effect of the misuse and over-use of logical connectives in English-as-a-Second-Language undergraduate writing, and suggests that students use a small subset of relatively comprehensible connectives, employ connectives for phrasal expansion, and view logical progression as an integral stage in writing. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Second Language Instruction
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Petrovitz, Walter – ELT Journal, 1997
Argues that no single approach is satisfactory for teaching all grammatical rules in English-as-a-Second-Language instruction, and that rules must first be distinguished on the basis of certain linguistic criteria before pedagogical strategies can be considered. (17 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Instructional Materials, Models