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Joseph Gagen Stockdale III – Online Submission, 2024
"A Dictionary and Thesaurus of Contemporary Figurative Language and Metaphor" (2024) upgrades ED628218 (ERIC) with labels and analysis and brings the work up to date to reflect language change at the speed of the internet, ChatGPT, social discord, and bloody wars. The dictionary identifies language used figuratively in everyday…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Usage, Phrase Structure, English (Second Language)
Joseph Gagen Stockdale III – Online Submission, 2023
"A Dictionary and Thesaurus of Contemporary Figurative Language and Metaphor" (2023) upgrades ED619049 (ERIC) and finishes its work. The dictionary identifies language used figuratively in everyday contemporary English--to include the language of "inclusion & exclusion" and "contempo-speak"--along with its…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Usage, Phrase Structure, English (Second Language)
Marckwardt, Albert H. – English Teaching Forum, 2012
The usefulness of the dictionary as a reliable source of information for word meanings, spelling, and pronunciation is widely recognized. But even in these obvious matters, the information that the dictionary has to offer is not always accurately interpreted. With respect to pronunciation there seem to be two general pitfalls: (1) the…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Semantics, Spelling, Pronunciation
Goldstein, Melvyn C. Comp.; Narkyid, Ngawangthondup, Comp. – 1984
This English-Tibetan dictionary contains 16,000 main entries and subentries, a total of 45,000 lexical items. The dictionary is primarily oriented to spoken communication and was designed to be semantically sensitive, bridging the semantic gap between Tibetan and English. Tibetan terms corresponding to submeanings of English subterms are…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, English, Grammar, Orthographic Symbols
Pecheur, Jacques – Francais dans le Monde, 1993
The author of a new French grammar textbook focusing on the best use of language to express meaning is interviewed. Topics include theories that have influenced the grammarian, distinction between grammar for instruction and grammar for reference purposes, aspects of writing a grammar textbook, and attention given to oral language. (MSE)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Role
Drabkin, Marjorie – 1976
This handbook (the last in a series of six) suggests many classroom activities that are interrelated with all the other areas of the language arts, particularly reading and writing, and that encourage the use of the library media center, mass media, textbooks, and audiovisual aids. The activities are designed to help pupils gain new insights into…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Guides, English Instruction, Grammar

Escobar, Anna Maria – Hispania, 1997
Argues that where Spanish is in contact with Quechua, the Spanish present perfect, preterite, and pluperfect are in contrast on the basis of a spatio-temporal parameter derived from the notion of present relevance. These innovative uses come from interaction between semantic systems of Quechua and Spanish and are consistent with universals of the…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Usage

Boers, Frank; Demecheleer, Murielle – ELT Journal, 1998
Prepositions have different but related senses. In cognitive semantics, figurative senses are extended from spatial senses through conceptual metaphors. Pedagogically, it is useful to draw learners' attention to those aspects of a preposition's spatial sense that are especially relevant for its metaphorization. Ways in which cognitive semantic…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Comprehension, Educational Strategies, English (Second Language)
Myers, Doris T. – 1984
Intended as a text to help teachers introduce college freshmen and sophomores to language through writing or to writing through introduction to language, this book emphasizes the relationship of linguistics to composition, literature, and the human condition. The nine chapters discuss the following topics: (1) three approaches to language, (2)…
Descriptors: College English, English Instruction, Grammar, Higher Education
Berger, Gilles – Francais dans le Monde, 1996
A classroom approach using music to enhance the enjoyment of literature in the French language class is discussed. Two short stories by Guy de Maupassant were tape-recorded by a professional actor, with background music added. Students listened to the tapes and completed a written exercise in which they answered vocabulary, comprehension, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, French, French Literature, Grammar

Oliphant, Katrina – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1998
This study investigated sensitivity to morphological, semantic, and syntactic cues to grammatical gender among 64 students of college-level Italian. Results showed sensitivity to cues in word-final phonemes, but low awareness of gender associations of derivational suffixes. Students had more difficulty dealing with multiple cues, particularly when…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Grammar, Higher Education, Italian
Kalogjera, Damir; Vilke, Mirjana – 1982
Part of a 20-year Yugoslav Serbocroatian-English Contrastive Project, this study is intended to make students, teachers, textbook writers, and scholars aware of elements in the system of English modals that might cause difficulties to the native Serbocroatian-speaking learner of English. An eclectic method of contrastive analysis consisting of…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Generative Grammar, Grammar
Concepts linguistiques en didactique des langues (Linguistic Concepts in the Teaching of Languages).
Alvarez, Gerardo; Perron, Denise – 1995
Basic linguistic concepts are presented and their links with second language learning and teaching are examined. The book is intended as a guide for teachers and others interested in second language instruction. Chapters address the following concepts: the relationship of language and linguistics, including basic terminology of discussion about…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Alvarez, Gerardo – 1989
Intended for second language teachers and teacher trainees, the guide to linguistic concepts used in second language instruction outlines the applications of basic linguistic concepts to classroom practice and some classroom activities. Chapters address the following topics: (1) the relationship of language and linguistics; (2) human…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics
Compton, Lawrence E.; Sanchez, James Joseph – 1985
A bibliography of brief annotations of instructional materials for the Russian language includes 93 documents from the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), and the Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS), that do not go out of print and are widely available in depository systems.…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Annotated Bibliographies, Contrastive Linguistics, Difficulty Level