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Direct linkChan, Alice Y. W. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2004
This paper gives a contrastive analysis of noun phrases in English and Chinese. The syntactic features of the structures, the devices used to mark distinctions in number, case and gender, as well as the similarities and differences between English and Chinese relative clauses are discussed. Partly due to the documented differences between these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nouns, English (Second Language), Chinese
Mead, Richard – 1983
The application of communicative and grammatical approaches to syllabus design for conversational English for specific purposes is discussed. Each approach is examined, and applications are suggested for each at different stages of instruction, based on learner readiness and the linguistic organization of the target language variety. At the early…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses, Course Content, Course Descriptions
