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McTear, Michael F. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1979
Reviews aspects of Halliday's Systemic-Functional Grammar, emphasizing language functions, modality vs modulation, process types, transitivity, information distribution, and cohesion. Implications for language teaching are discussed. (AM)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Intonation
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Maynard, Senko K. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1985
Explores the surface structure observed in Japanese and English spontaneous oral narratives from the perspective of subject and theme. Although both the Japanese and the English narratives employ participant identification as a major cohesive ingredient, how referring forms are used and how they contribute to discourse organization differ. (SED)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English
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Henzl, Vera M. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1979
Reports on an experiment investigating the modifications in lexicon, grammar, and phonology, made by language teachers as they related to varying levels of proficiency, and are compared to "foreigner talk." (AM)
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Czech, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)