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Peer reviewedHill, L. A. – English Language Teaching, 1971
Based on a paper read at the third Annual Conference of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language in London, England, December 1969. (DS)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Illustrations, Semantics, Sentence Structure
Download full textGaeng, Paul A. – 1970
This article reviews the historical development of applied linguistics in foreign language instruction. Five major principles influencing early applied linguistic theory are summarized, emphasizing the oral nature of language. Central to the article are discussions of: (1) prescriptive or normative grammar, (2) transformational grammar, (3)…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Contrastive Linguistics
Direct linkHsiao, Franny; Gibson, Edward – Cognition, 2003
This paper reports results from a self-paced reading study in Chinese that demonstrates that object-extracted relative clause structures are less complex than corresponding subject-extracted structures. These results contrast with results from processing other Subject-Verb-Object languages like English, in which object-extracted structures are…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Word Order, Morphology (Languages), Generative Grammar
Varga, Laszlo – 1975
This is a contrastive analysis of British English, American English and Hungarian sentence prosody. The first part is an introduction stating the study's objective, scope and data, and briefly surveying the related literature. It outlines the study's view of prosodic features and its principles of comparison and prediction. Part Two inventories…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Error Patterns
Choi, Jae-Oh – 1984
A contrastive analysis of English and Korean sentences, including error analysis, is presented. The study focuses on word order, comparing the languages' similarities and differences with the objective of understanding better how the structural differences inhibit the progress of the Korean learner of English. The English data are derived from…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English, English (Second Language)
James, Carl – 1980
Contrastive analysis is viewed as an interlinguistic, bidirectional phenomenon which is concerned with both the form and function of language. As such, contrastive analysis must view language psycholinguistically and sociolinguistically as a system to be both described and acquired. Due to the need for a psychological component in the analysis,…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
Pack, Alice C., Ed. – 1968
Four issues of "TESL Reporter" are presented. Contents include the following articles: ''An Approach to the [I] [i] Contrast" by William D. Conway; "Native Language Environment Is Source of Confusion" by Alice Pack; "The Origin of Language: A Puzzle With Missing Pieces"; "Terminal Behavior and Language…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English (Second Language)
