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Peer reviewedOdegaard, Joanne M.; May, Frank B. – Elementary School Journal, 1972
Descriptors: Child Language, Elementary Education, English, Grammar
Download full textAnderson, Tommy R. – TESOL Quarterly, 1968
The initial stage of second language learning usually aims to develop the ability to converse. This conversational ability is, however, rarely the ultimate object of second language instruction. The student may want access to the literature of the culture of the second language, or to get an education in it. For these reasons, interest shifts…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, English, Language Instruction, Language Patterns
Scott, Jerrie Cobb – 1981
A study explored the relationship between oral and written patterns produced by a group of black college freshmen enrolled in remedial writing classes. Forty students were asked to produce, in formal language style, both oral and written summaries of a reading selection. The data were analyzed to determine (1) the extent to which patterns,…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, College Freshmen, Dialect Studies
Peer reviewedMontano-Harmon, Maria Rosario – Hispania, 1991
Analyzes discourse features of compositions written in Spanish by secondary school students in Mexico, draws comparisons with those written in English by Anglo-American students in the United States, and discusses the implications of the results for teaching and evaluating composition skills in Spanish language programs. (29 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, English
Olson, Paul A. – Louisiana English Journal, 1969
When the English teacher understands his "place" as being an "office" that he holds in relation to his students and the lives they live with their language, he will abandon the abstract and often irrelevant "domains" of English and avoid repeating in the classroom what culture has already done for the students. As he intervenes in their education,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deduction, Educational Change, Elementary Education
Nichols, Ann Eljenholm – 1965
This textbook attempts to augment the general handbook information needed in any composition class with specific information that the non-native speaker needs, for example, the distribution of determiners with the various noun subclasses, and the syntactical relationship of subordinator to subordinate clause; and to apply the techniques and…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, English, English (Second Language), Essays
Lindeberg, Ann-Charlotte – 1984
A study to find patterns of cohesion and rhetorical structure that distinguish good from weak English essay writing is described. The corpus consisted of ten Swedish college essays written as part of the final exam in a first-year English course. Methodological problems encountered included the delimitation of units for the analysis of cohesive…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), College Students, Comparative Analysis
