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Peer reviewedMichaels, David – Language Learning, 1968
A pragmatic approach to the problem of teaching the uses of the definite article in English to students of English as a foreign language is presented. The discussion deals with--(1) the situational context as a determining factor for the definite article; (2) the role of the linguistic context; (3) the determining role of restrictive phrases and…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Determiners (Languages), English (Second Language), Grammar
Peer reviewedTomayko, James E. – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1974
A method of teaching question formation in the Chinese language by use of transformational grammar is described. (RM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Deep Structure, Grammar, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedTaggart, Gilbert – Langue Francaise, 1974
This article discusses the use of the image in audiovisual structural exercises, on the lexical and on the grammatical level. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Instruction, Grammar, Illustrations
Peer reviewedNey, James W. – Language Learning, 1971
Descriptors: Charts, Cognitive Processes, Grammar, Learning Theories
Download full textLong, Ralph B. – 1968
In viewing the approach to English and other grammars in the light of linguistic universals, the author feels that the principal justification for deep structure analysis of English is that "deep structure analyses of all the languages of our multilingual world in combination can serve as a genuinely scientific basis of a defensible universal…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English (Second Language), Grammar
Carstensen, Leone Mabel – 1972
This study investigated the extent to which the language base as described in the three strands of the Language Experience Approach Rationale is provided for in the first grade reading textbook teacher guides adopted by the state of Arizona. Language experiences in a random sample consisting of five pages from each of the 77 books included on the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Grammar, Language Experience Approach
Ives, Sumner – The English Record, 1969
Three grammars that, since the 50's, have supplemented or offered alternatives to traditional grammar are discussed in this article. The role of grammar in communicative utterances and the underlying considerations in describing a grammatical system are analyzed. Then, brief summaries about and comments on structural linguistics, tagmemic grammar,…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English Instruction, Form Classes (Languages), Generative Grammar
Mayher, John Sawyer – 1968
Transformational grammar offers the most adequate system by which to meet the goal of grammar instruction, which is to increase the student's understanding of the nature of language. This grammar attempts to explain the mental processes underlying the production and understanding of sentences, to describe linguistic competence, to construct…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Educational Objectives, English Instruction, Generative Grammar
Brown, H. Douglas – 1972
Examing the relationship between linguistic functions and other complex mental and emotional processes such as intellect, conceptual behavior, personality differences, egocentricity, and other important facets of cognitive and affective behavior may lead to the description of "psychologically" real grammatical structures which relate directly to…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes
