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Hanson, Stephanie – English Teaching Forum, 2017
English language learners are often more grammatically accurate in writing than in speaking. As students focus on meaning while speaking, their spoken fluency comes at a cost: their grammatical accuracy decreases. The author wanted to find a way to help her students improve their oral grammar; that is, she wanted them to focus on grammar while…
Descriptors: Grammar, Sentences, Language Proficiency, Verbs
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Edmonds-Wathen, Cris – PNA, 2016
This study focussed on the effect of grammar of Iwaidja, an indigenous Australian language, on mathematical conceptualisation. It investigated route description in Iwaidja. Spatial concepts such as direction, height and movement in relation to another object are briefly described using examples. Differences between English and Iwaidja are used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Indigenous Populations
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Lorimor, Heidi; Bock, Kathryn; Zalkind, Ekaterina; Sheyman, Alina; Beard, Robert – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
We assessed whether and under what conditions noncanonical agreement patterns occur in Russian, with the goal of understanding the factors involved in normal agreement. Russian is a morphosyntactically rich language in which agreement involves features for number, gender, and case. If consistent, overt specification of number and gender agreement…
Descriptors: Sentences, Morphology (Languages), Russian, Grammar
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Beeke, Suzanne; Wilkinson, Ray; Maxim, Jane – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2007
Background: Agrammatic speech can manifest in different ways in the same speaker if task demands change. Individual variation is considered to reflect adaptation, driven by psycholinguistic factors such as underlying deficit. Recently, qualitative investigations have begun to show ways in which conversational interaction can influence the form of…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Sentences, Story Telling, Speech Communication
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Langacker, Ronald W. – Language Sciences, 1993
Some basic notions of cognitive grammar are introduced in a discussion that emphasizes the importance to linguistic semantics of the way in which we construe a perceived situation. It is concluded that developing an optimal account of semantic structure and of grammatical structure are best conceived as simultaneous, mutually informative…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Linguistic Theory
Freige, Elisabeth – Linguistique, 1979
Verbal elements in Cairene Arabic are investigated in the light of two opposing hypotheses, one stating that the elements constitute a unit, the other stating that each element is an independent predicate. (AM)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Regional Dialects
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Michaelis, Laura A.; Lambrecht, Knud – Language, 1996
Using a particular sentence type--an exclamative construction referred to as "Nominal Extraposition" (NE)--this article outlines a formal model in which grammatical description includes the description of use conditions on form-meaning pairs. The article suggests that the relationship between NE and like exclamatives can be represented in an…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory
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Eberhard, Kathleen M.; Cutting, J. Cooper; Bock, Kathryn – Psychological Review, 2005
Grammatical agreement flags the parts of sentences that belong together regardless of whether the parts appear together. In English, the major agreement controller is the sentence subject, the major agreement targets are verbs and pronouns, and the major agreement category is number. The authors expand an account of number agreement whose tenets…
Descriptors: Grammar, Morphemes, Structural Grammar, Verbs
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Matsumura, Masanori – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1994
In a study of binding relations of reflexive anaphors, it is suggested that a nonsyntactic aspect of language plays a role; i.e., viewpoint in sentence processing. This notion may help specify the type of evidence that can trigger learners' progress in the acquisition of the English reflexive. (Contains 33 references.) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: English, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Japanese
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Schleppegrell, Mary J. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1998
Presents a functional grammatical analysis of the writing that 128 seventh- and eighth-grade students produced in response to their science teacher's directive to describe a picture. Identifies the register elements of the task and the grammatical difficulties it posed for students. Shows that teachers can help students use grammatical resources…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Junior High Schools
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Williams, John N. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2005
Two experiments examined the learning of form-meaning connections under conditions where the relevant forms were noticed but the critical aspects of meaning were not. Miniature noun class systems were employed, and the participants were told that the choice of determiner in noun phrases depended on whether the object was "near" or "far" from the…
Descriptors: Nouns, Grammar, Generalization, Word Recognition
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Algeo, John – NASSP Bulletin, 1981
Outlines three senses of the term grammar, why some type of grammar should be taught, the three types of grammatical description that can be taught, and four procedures and four conditions for teaching any type of grammar. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Grammar, Grammatical Acceptability, Sentence Diagraming
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Sutton, Ann – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1996
This paper reviews the literature on grammatical knowledge in language comprehension in the preschool years from the perspective of sensitivity to structural contrasts. Studies of both direct and indirect evidence of sensitivity to structural contrasts were evaluated and showed that there may be a developmental sequence of increasing sensitivity…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Developmental Stages, Grammar
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Frank, Robert – Cognition, 1998
Demonstrates that an understanding of children's language-acquisition difficulties with a wide range of syntactic constructions should be derived from limitations on the child's ability to deal with processing load and formal representational complexity. Maintains this can be done only in the context of a view of syntactic representation…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Child Language, Grammar, Individual Development
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Swonk, Joseph – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1981
Describes a technique for introducing the basics of grammar into a college freshman composition course, in which the instructor correlated grammatical structures with students' personality types. (HTH)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Grammar, Higher Education, Personality Traits
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