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Kaneda, Michikazu – Bulletin for the Teachers of English, 1972
The experiment described in this report investigates second language development and the possibility of determining various levels of language acquisition. The subjects involved are Japanese students learning English. The students are given the task of recalling English kernel sentences after hearing them once. The resulting sentences--the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Information Processing, Kernel Sentences
Blumenthal, Peter – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1974
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, French, German
Makino, Seiichi – Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 1974
Revised version of a paper read at the Annual Conference of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, June 14, 1973, Vancouver, Canada. (DD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Distinctive Features (Language), English, Japanese
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Utley, D. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1975
Minimal pairs as at present used in the ESL classroom are uncontextualized bits of language that are of little use to the ESL teacher. An alternative, minimal sentences, is described here. Minimal sentences give context and meaning to the sound contrasts. (RM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Phonology
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Lampach, Stanley – 1965
This contrastive grammar based on modern linguistic theory considers noun and verb phrases as the primary morphological and syntactical structure of language. A section on the noun phrase examines: (1) types of noun phrase constructions; (2) gender and number; (3) elements, expansion, and substitutes of the noun phrase. The material on the verb…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages)
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – 1973
This collection of papers is the first in a series resulting from the Polish-English Contrastive Project. The overall purposes of the project are to prepare a Polish-English contrastive grammar and to develop pedagogical materials. The basic model used for the research is the transformational generative one. The papers included in this volume are…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Case (Grammar), Comparative Analysis, Consonants
Politzer, Robert L. – 1972
This book discusses the relevance of applied linguistics to foreign language teaching and supports the point of view that linguistics is relevant as the source of assumptions rather than as the source of conclusions. In foreign language teaching, the assumptions based on linguistics must ultimately be evaluated on their ability to explain the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – 1974
This collection of 31 papers is the second resulting from the Polish-English Contrastive Project. The overall purposes of the project are to prepare a Polish-English contrastive grammar and to develop pedagogical material. The basic model used for the research is the transformational generative one. This volume is divided into three sections: (1)…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Comparative Analysis, Consonants