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Yusifova, Aygun – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The present paper aims to analyze the most inherent features and characteristics of household lexis in English. Special emphasis has been placed on their names of the objects used in everyday life, kitchen utensils, animal and birds. Lexical units concerning ceremonies, habits and traditions are also among the scope of the paper. Moreover, the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Semantics, Teaching Methods
Mancilla, Rae L.; Polat, Nihat; Akcay, Ahmet O. – Applied Linguistics, 2017
This manuscript reports on a corpus-based comparison of native and nonnative graduate students' language production in an asynchronous learning environment. Using 486 discussion board postings from a five-year period (2009-2013), we analyzed the extent to which native and nonnative university students' writing differed in 10 measures of syntactic…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Written Language

Sweet, Waldo F. – Classical Journal, 1970
First appeared in the British publication Didaskalos", v2 p141-159 1967. (DS)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Grammar, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction
Capelle, Janine – Francais dans le Monde, 1971
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, French, Language Instruction, Language Typology
Nickel, Gerhard – Education and Culture, 1969
"Education and Culture is a publication of the Council for Cultural Co-operation of the Council of Europe. The autumn 1969 issue is a special number devoted to modern languages. (DS)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diagrams, Grammar, Language Research
Anthony, Edward M. – TESOL Quart, 1970
Presents an essentially Bloomfieldian approach to language and language teaching; sees the concept of language as interplay between stimuli and reactions as the basis of a wholly creditable system of teaching, a tremendous number of textbooks, and a large number of language courses." (FB)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Behavior Theories, Contrastive Linguistics, Grammar

Bruthiaux, Paul – Applied Linguistics, 1995
Reviews the evolution of semicolon use in English, examining the frequency of semicolons, colons, and dashes in grammar, language, and linguistic books from the mid-16th century to the present. Concludes that after flourishing in the 17th and 18th centuries, the semicolon may have become a marginal component of the English punctuation system. (42…
Descriptors: Books, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English

Oller, John W., Jr. – Foreign Language Annals, 1979
Examines the loss in popularity of contrastive linguistics as a method for explaining second language learning systems, and calls for a turn to pragmatics in language teaching. (AM)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Error Analysis (Language), Interference (Language)
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
Gaeng, 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

Born, Warren C., Ed. – 1977
These reports deal with language as a whole: its nature, its history, its relationship to culture, its acquisition, the immediate uses to which it can be put, and the development in students of an appreciation for the ability to use a foreign language. The book is divided into three main sections: Acquisition, Application, and Appreciation. For…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Aptitude, Careers, Child Language

Kabakchy, V. V. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1980
One can group and teach idioms according to their accessibility to a particular type of student. Four types of idioms exist: (1) those which have equivalents in the student's native language; (2) those having only semantic counterparts; (3) those understandable from the constituent structure; and (4) the true idioms, those not comprehensible from…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Idioms
Kilic, Gulsen Bagci – International Journal of Science Education, 2003
Concept maps are being used by an increasing number of educators in Europe and the US. This paper has four goals. First, it discusses problems in developing Novak's style concept maps in Turkish caused by linguistic differences between Turkish and English. Second, it reports the findings of a research study conducted to adapt concept maps to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Concept Mapping, Turkish
Berman, Ruth Aronson – Interlanguage Studies Bulletin-Utrecht, 1978
Contrastive analysis is suggested as a tool in language teaching for such areas as: (1) deciding how much to focus on different aspects of the target language; (2) making generalizations about its structure; and (3) explaining texts or constructions which might otherwise be incomprehensible. The claim is made that such procedures need to be based…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Hebrew, Higher Education

Xu, George Q. – 1987
A bibliography on English language teaching to native Chinese-speakers contains 130 citations of journal articles, books, and other publications on a variety of topics, including language processing, material development, instructional techniques, language teaching and learning research, linguistic theory, cultural context and differences,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Chinese Americans, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques
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