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Qin, Wenjuan; Zhang, Xizi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
In successful writing development, English as a foreign language (EFL) learners not only need to acquire grammatical complexity (GC) features but also know when and how to use them flexibly across communicative contexts, known as register flexibility. The present study, guided by the sociocultural theory of language learning, examines descriptive…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Writing (Composition), Grammar
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Suherman, Rudi; Indrayani, Lia Maulia; Krisnawati, Ekaning – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2020
The study intends to see the interlanguage morphological structure observed in communicative tasks of ten Indonesian learners of English as a Foreign Language. To achieve this purpose, Qualitative method with quantified data is employed in this study embracing the cross-sectional approach. The data are taken from the utterances produced by 10…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hallett, Jill – Language and Education, 2020
This study investigates the learning of linguistic structures associated with African American English (AAE) among four non-AAE-speaking teachers of AAE-speaking students. It considers implicit and explicit learning/development of a second dialect in two novel ways. First, it focuses on the understanding of a socially-stigmatized dialect by…
Descriptors: African Americans, Black Dialects, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Teacher Attitudes
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Vanhove, Jan – Language Learning, 2017
This study investigated how standard and substandard varieties of first language (L1) Dutch affect grammatical gender assignments to nouns in second language (L2) German. While German distinguishes between masculine, feminine, and neuter gender, the masculine--feminine distinction has nearly disappeared in Standard Dutch. Many substandard Belgian…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Standard Spoken Usage, Native Language, Language Research
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Jerry F. Smith – Journal of English as an International Language, 2016
This paper is meant to illuminate the possibility of how world Englishes within an international setting could become similar to the confusion encountered in the Bible record of the Tower of Babel. Presented here is the trend of world Englishes as a part of an English as an international language paradigm. The discussion then proceeds to address…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Biblical Literature
Smith, Jerry – Online Submission, 2015
This paper discusses the similarities between the Bible record of the Tower of Babel and the resulting confusion of languages and how it relates to modern times and the trend we see of English as an International Language (EIL). This paper then briefly examines the trend of being culturally sensitive in EIL by accepting cultural or "world…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Grammar, Phonetics
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O'Hara-Davies, Breda – World Englishes, 2010
A considerable amount of time has elapsed since the existence of a distinct variety of English, Brunei English (BNE), was mooted in the early 1990s. A subsequent study conducted by Svalberg in 1998 suggested that BNE was then in its infancy and that its speakers were largely unaware of the differences between it and Standard British English (STE).…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Grammar, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Drouin, Michelle; Davis, Claire – Journal of Literacy Research, 2009
Recent negative media attention surrounding the use of text speak (shorthand abbreviations of words such as "gr8" for "great") and the potentially detrimental effects of text speak on literacy prompted this study of texting and literacy in 80 college students. Thirty-four text speak users and 46 nontext speak users were assessed on their…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, College Students, English, Computer Mediated Communication
Ray, Brian – Journal of Basic Writing (CUNY), 2008
This article discusses exchanges between a number of scholars during the 1990s centering on Min-Zhan Lu's controversial essay "Conflict and Struggle: The Enemies or Preconditions of Basic Writing?" In some ways, "Conflict and Struggle" blazed a trail for later work in "hybrid" or "mixed" forms of academic writing while at the same time igniting…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Basic Writing, Writing (Composition), Writing Research
Munoz y Nunez de Prado, Jesus – Yelmo, 1973
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Phonetics
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Akhmanova, Olga – Modern Language Journal, 1971
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Grammar, Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
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Engkent, Lucia Petrusiak – TESL Canada Journal, 1986
Discusses different characteristics of conversational English, including: pronunciation, ellipsis, use of "you" as a general pronoun, hesitation markers, subject-verb agreement, pronoun agreement, verbs, modifiers, comparisons, euphemisms, idioms, slang, and phatic/ritualistic expressions. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Idioms, Language Enrichment
Bowen, J. Donald – 1975
The experimental test measures the ability of a subject to reconstruct obscured words by means of sentence analysis, carried out not as a separate academic task, but in the normal procedure of understanding what the sentence says. It is a task built on the assumption that the ability to handle reduced redundancy is a valid measure of linguistic…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Mougeon, Raymond; Carroll, Suzanne – 1976
This study examines the usage of the auxiliaries "avoir" and "etre" in the passe compose and pluperfect. The study is primarily based on a sample of French written by agroup of grade 9 Franco-Ontarian pupils from the Sudbury region. The students' written French is shown to include a high proportion of cases where intransitive…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, French, Grammar, Language Instruction
Christian, Donna; And Others – 1983
A study examining the sociolinguistic context and emerging linguistic structure of English in a Northern Virginia Vietnamese community, based on taped interviews and limited writing samples, is presented. The subjects were 93 refugees categorized by age range (10-13, 15-18, 20-25, 35-55 years), length of residence in the United States (1-3 and 4-7…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Classroom Techniques, Contrastive Linguistics
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