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Noss, Richard B. – Bulletin of the English Language Center, 1973
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills, Context Clues, Deep Structure
Peer reviewedScovel, Thomas – TESOL Quarterly, 1971
Paper presented at the TESOL Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1971. (VM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedSmith, Michael Sharwood – Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 1972
A method is proposed for formalizing the basic meanings underlying the forms of verbs which contain future reference. The method proposed is intended as a contribution to pedagogical grammar rather than theoretical linguistics. See FL 508 197 for availability. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Deep Structure, English (Second Language), Grammar
Peer reviewedNilsen, Don L. F. – TESOL Quarterly, 1971
Paper presented at the TESOL Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1971. (VM)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, English (Second Language), Grammar
Peer reviewedSa'Adeddin, Mohammed Akram A. M. – Applied Linguistics, 1989
Translations of three Arabic texts into English illustrate the differences between the aural and visual modes of text development. An analysis of the function of these modes in their social contexts explains the problems of the negative transfer of habits from one language to another. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Arabic, Aural Learning, English (Second Language), Interference (Language)
Peer reviewedParibakht, Tahereh – TESL Canada Journal, 1986
Reports a study that identified elements of surface grammar essential for English-as-a-second-language (ESL) learners' use of communication strategies (CS) in survival situations. The taxonomy developed provided a basis for identifying the semantic components and syntactic structures required to implement the CS. An appropriate sequence is…
Descriptors: Adults, Body Language, Classification, Communicative Competence (Languages)
PDF pending restorationKarttunen, Kimmo – 1977
Both English and Finnish make use of a category called the passive voice. In most cases these passives correspond to each other, but both are subject to restrictions. This paper attempts to determine how English passives overlap with the semantic area covered by the Finnish passive and what the choices are which face a speaker of Finnish in…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English
Download full textTopping, D. M. – 1969
This paper attempts to discuss some of the implications of transformational grammar for language analysis and language learning. The author covers the following points: (1) transformational grammar--some background and some claims, and some linguistic and psychological implications; (2) which, if any, of the claims of transformational grammar are…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Universals
Nilsen, Don L. F. – 1971
The use of case frames of verbs as a control for the teaching of vocabulary items has a number of distinct advantages over other controls. The case frame associated with a particular vocabulary item, or with a particular semantic class, would be the same in the native and the target language (English). This would have the advantage of allowing the…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Applied Linguistics, Case (Grammar)
Brown, H. Douglas – 1972
Examing the relationship between linguistic functions and other complex mental and emotional processes such as intellect, conceptual behavior, personality differences, egocentricity, and other important facets of cognitive and affective behavior may lead to the description of "psychologically" real grammatical structures which relate directly to…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes
