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Garner, Mark – Babel: Journal of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teacher's Association, 1979
Reports on an experiment in native speaker judgement of acceptability, designed to test the acceptability of variations on the time-manner-place order in German adverbs. Implications for teaching German are drawn. (AM)
Descriptors: Adverbs, German, Grammar, Language Instruction
Klein, Jean Rene – Revue des Langues Vivantes, 1978
Presents an overview of the treatment of linguistic principles in recent French grammar books. (AM)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Language Instruction, Linguistics
Kaplan, Robert B. – 1978
It is contended that there are such things as discourse blocs, and that they are composed of discourse units glued together into a contextuated whole by bloc signals. There are three kinds of structures with which it is necessary to deal in order to discuss coherent discourse: the discourse bloc, the discourse unit, and the bloc signal.…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Language Instruction
Amilcar Cipriano, Nestor – Yelmo, 1979
This concluding article in a series concerning the use of the comma in Spanish gives specific examples of its use from Spanish literature. Concluding remarks outline the major purposes of the comma. (NCR)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Instruction, Punctuation, Second Language Learning
Soga, Matsuo; Fujimura, Taiji – Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 1978
Discusses the construction "Sentence + no + Noun" in contemporary Japanese. (AM)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Deep Structure, Grammar, Japanese
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McTear, Michael F. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1979
Reviews aspects of Halliday's Systemic-Functional Grammar, emphasizing language functions, modality vs modulation, process types, transitivity, information distribution, and cohesion. Implications for language teaching are discussed. (AM)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Intonation
Caminiti, M. Grazia – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1979
Discusses a method that enables students of English to classify and organize their lexical capital by using triangles to diagram sentences. How to inscribe a sentence in a triangle is explained and illustrated. (CFM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Chu, Chauncey C. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1978
Proposes an approach to contrastive linguistics which takes into account syntax and semantics, and discusses the role of such an approach in explaining surface structure differences between English and Chinese sentences of the type: "He is a good pianist" and "I have a bad knee." (AM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English
Cervera, Alicia – Yelmo, 1978
Discusses ways of teaching complementary pronouns in Spanish, includinq pronouns of direct objects, reflexive verbs, and indirect objects. (NCR)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Instruction, Language Patterns, Pronouns
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Wonder, John P. – Hispania, 1979
Elaborates on and updates the article "Derived Noun Phrases in Spanish Containing Locatives" by John P. Wonder and Alberto Eraso Guerrero (1976). Gives a detailed description of the uses of "ser" and "haber" in the locative expression. (NCR)
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Language Instruction, Language Patterns
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Thomas, Ursula – Unterrichtspraxis, 1978
Describes a device or "game" using 3x5 cards to divide sentences in such a way as to guide the language learner to anticipate grammatical structures; to make him aware that grammar, as well as vocabulary, conveys meaning. (EJS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Games, Games, German
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Schaarschmidt, Gunter – Russian Language Journal, 1979
Describes a sequence for teaching the Russian passive construction to exemplify how a learning sequence based on a contrastive analysis and on error analysis can lessen student errors. These errors are caused either by interference from the first language or over-generalization in the second language. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Interference (Language), Language Instruction
Happ, Heinz – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1978
Describes the theory of "dependential grammar" and how it can be used in language teaching, specifically in the area of syntax. (AM)
Descriptors: French, German, Grammar, Greek
Robb, Thomas N. – Cross Currents, 1976
R-QUAF (Rapid Question and Answer Formation) is a device which enables the English as a second language (ESL) class to systematically review previously studied sentence patterns in a brisk and lively way. The technique revolves around a wall chart with cue words for questions running down the left-hand side (to elicit the various structures to be…
Descriptors: Charts, Educational Media, English (Second Language), Language Instruction
Pfeiffer, Waldemar – 1973
Elliptical sentence structures, i.e., restrictive sentences, play a decisive role in both the conventional and programmed approaches to foreign language instruction. Basic to both these approaches are four distinct phases: presentation, drill, contextualization, and testing. However, it has been proven that the learning process can be maximized…
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Dialogs (Literary), Language Instruction, Language Learning Levels
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