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Bennett, T. J. A. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1976
The behavior of the "It's...who..." type of construction and its relation to defining and non-defining relative clauses is examined. Reference is made particularly to suprasegmental features. Parallels are drawn to French relative constructions. (SCC)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), French, Language Instruction, Sentence Structure
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Hocking, B. D. W. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1974
Explains how grammars and textbooks can present the formal tense relations of English in a concise, uncomplicated way. (PM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Grammar, Sentence Structure
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Slager, William R. – TESOL Quarterly, 1973
Paper prepared under contract with the Defense Language Institute, English Language Branch, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, and presented to the staff and faculty of the Institute in 1972. (RS)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Lesson Plans, Sentence Structure
Wollmann, Alfred – Praxis des Neusprachlichen Unterrichts, 1970
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages), Function Words, Language Instruction
Rutherford, William E. – 1973
The thesis that classroom instruction in the grammatical forms of a language is undesirable, currently held by a number of applied linguists, is rejected. However, although it has been found that inducement of grammatical consciousness is not necessarily a pedagogical liability, its worth depends to a large extent upon the kinds of facts to be…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), English (Second Language), Grammar, Instructional Materials
Caissie, Roland – 1982
A system for classifying English predicates into four families that account for all forms, moods, voices, and tenses is examined as an approach to teach grammar to students of English as a second language (ESL). It is suggested that by focusing on one family at a time, then building by combining these families, students can learn more readily to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Grammar, Instructional Design
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Stageberg, Norman C. – English Record, 1971
Too often in teaching English to speakers of other languages, the patterns of intonation, stress, and juncture are neglected; as a result, the student's comprehension and power of expression are reduced. After the basic suprasegmental patterns are taught, the teacher should continue to teach the patterns which are useful in distinguishing meanings…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Intonation, Language Instruction
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Masuko, Mayumi – Language Sciences, 1996
Discusses why Japanese students frequently passivize certain intransitive English verbs. It is suggested that students might make this error because they associate adversity with the passive construction and use passives whenever adversity is implied. Discussion of other expressions implying adversity and implications for both applied and…
Descriptors: Discourse Modes, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Correction
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)
Burt, Marina K.; Kiparsky, Carol – 1972
This supplementary offering for English-as-a-second-language courses was prepared to help isolate and treat most of the "goofs" that students regularly make in speaking and writing English. Each error is presented in its grammatical context, and chapters are arranged on the basis of groups of errors that fall together structurally. Included are…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages), Function Words