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Peer reviewedMarino, Jacqueline L. – Language Arts, 1980
Describes an informal study that yielded information about differences between good and poor sixth-grade spellers in their awareness that spelling involves prediction strategies and in their awareness of letter frequencies, pattern frequencies, and positional constraints on spelling. Outlines a few implications for spelling instruction. (GT)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Games, Elementary Education, High Achievement
Download full textFrank, Marcella – 1980
A checklist for teachers of English as a Second Language who are teaching the expression of comparisons is presented. It is intended to assist in the systematic classroom presentation of features of comparison, with adaptation for any proficiency level. Broadly, it addresses how both the units being compared and the points of comparison need to be…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
Hall, Dean G. – Technical Writing Teacher, 1986
Argues that comparing standard English usage to systems of standardization students are familiar with from their technical training forces technical writing students to understand the need for consistent signaling in spelling, grammar, punctuation, and other language conventions. Includes an example from early American literature written in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics, Higher Education, Language Patterns
Odisho, Edward Y. – 1992
A study examines two major types of vowel systems in languages, centripetal and centrifugal. English is associated with the centripetal system, in which vowel quality and quantity (rhythm) are heavily influenced by stress. In this system, vowels have a strong tendency to move toward the center of the vowel area. Spanish is associated with the…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
Lay, Nancy Duke S. – 1991
This guide is designed to help college-level teachers of English as a Second Language address the particular linguistic characteristics and instructional needs of native Chinese-speaking students. The first chapter profiles four Chinese students at the City College of New York, focusing on their basic literacy in Chinese, immigration issues,…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Schmitt, Norbert; Schmitt, Diane Rae – Thai TESOL Bulletin, 1993
This article discusses second language vocabulary learning strategies and includes an analysis and classification of possible strategies and the report of a study conducted among second language learners in Japan. Research on vocabulary learning strategies is synthesized into two lists of strategies: 14 methods for initial learning of a new word's…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grammar
