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Chew, John J., Jr. – Journal-Newsletter of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 1969
Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America, December 29, 1968, in New York, New York. (DS)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Japanese, Language Instruction
Dickerson, Wayne B. – 1974
This paper attempts a systematic approach to the teaching of word stress in the ESL classroom. Stress assignment rules from Chomsky and Halle and from Ross are used to establish the SISL Principle (Stress Initial Strong Left), for final weak-syllable words. On the basis of spelling, this rule can be applied correctly to 95 out of 100 cases. (AM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Articulation (Speech), Consonants, English (Second Language)
Northern Illinois Univ., De Kalb. Project English Curriculum Center. – 1966
THE GENERAL OBJECTIVE OF THESE UNITS ON SEGMENTAL AND SUPRASEGMENTAL PHONEMES, PREPARED BY NORTHERN UNIVERSITY'S PROJECT ENGLISH CENTER, IS TO HELP 11TH- AND 12TH-GRADERS TO DISCOVER, THROUGH AN UNDERSTANDING OF PHONOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES, THE SYSTEMS UNDERLYING THEIR OWN LANGUAGE. SPECIFIC LANGUAGE-SKILL OBJECTIVES ARE THE IMPROVEMENT OF (1)…
Descriptors: Consonants, Curriculum Guides, English Instruction, Grade 11
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Kadler, Eric H. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Describes features of articulatory shortcuts discovered among middle class, educated native speakers of Spanish in Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador. It is maintained that these features should be taught to students of Spanish in order that they may understand colloquial Spanish speech. (AM)
Descriptors: Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Language Instruction