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Reading in the ESOL Classroom: A Technique for Teaching Syntactic Meaning
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Wilson, Lois Irene – TESOL Quarterly, 1973
Paper presented at the 1972 TESOL Conference in Washington, D.C. (DD)
Descriptors: College Language Programs, English (Second Language), Grammar, Illustrations
The Use of Rapid Drills in the Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages
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Allen, Robert L. – TESOL Quarterly, 1972
Paper prepared under contract with the English Language Branch--Defense Language Institute, Lackland Air Force Base, Lackland, Texas, and delivered in 1971 to staff members of the Branch. (VM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction
The Development of Grammar Categories in Spanish by Anglo Children Learning a Second Language
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Boyd, Patricia A. – TESOL Quarterly, 1975
A detailed error analysis was performed on spontaneous and elicited speech samples of Anglo second graders learning Spanish. The results tended to disconfirm the L to the subpower of 1 = L to the subpower of 2 hypothesis that first and second language acquisition follow identical patterns. However, evidence suggests that genuine similarities do…
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Patterns, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Variable Rules in the Acquisition of English Contractions.
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Odlin, Terence M. – TESOL Quarterly, 1978
This article summarizes a study (Odlin 1978) using variable rules analyses to describe the contraction patterns of six Mexican students of English as a second language. (CFM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, College Students, English (Second Language), Grammar