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Li, Frances C. – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1977
Linguists have classified analysis of the "ba" construction into three approaches: structural, semantic and communicative. This paper outlines treatment of "ba" in several major Chinese textbooks and suggests an approach to teaching the construction. Students must be taught linguistic information in logical steps for best command of the language.…
Descriptors: Chinese, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Language Instruction
Wollmann, Alfred – Praxis des Neusprachlichen Unterrichts, 1970
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages), Function Words, Language Instruction
Bucklin, Lincoln Brice – 1969
Arguing that slot-cards teach the structure of the verb and the grammatical message each slot carries while reducing the number of forms to be learned, the author describes a technique for teaching the tense modes of the present indicative, the present subjunctive, and the perfect indicative in French. A working model of the verb stems "aimer" and…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), French, Language Instruction
Schiffler, Ludger – Sprachlabor Audiovisuelle Unterricht, 1970
Speech given February 10, 1970, at the Hessisches Lehrerfortbildungswerk," Reinhardswaldschule. (DS)
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), French, Language Instruction, Pattern Drills (Language)
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Lampach, Stanley – 1965
This contrastive grammar based on modern linguistic theory considers noun and verb phrases as the primary morphological and syntactical structure of language. A section on the noun phrase examines: (1) types of noun phrase constructions; (2) gender and number; (3) elements, expansion, and substitutes of the noun phrase. The material on the verb…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages)
Goldsmith, Helen H. – 1969
A linguistic study of syntactic differences in the mass noun-count noun contrast in French and English reveals the problems encountered in the construction of illustrative sentences and other pattern drills. A definitional statement of the distinctions between the two classes of nouns includes numerous examples in both languages. By taking…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages)
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)
Politzer, Robert L. – 1972
This book discusses the relevance of applied linguistics to foreign language teaching and supports the point of view that linguistics is relevant as the source of assumptions rather than as the source of conclusions. In foreign language teaching, the assumptions based on linguistics must ultimately be evaluated on their ability to explain the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure