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Download full textHaghshenas, Mahsa Sadat Mousavi; Hashemian, Mahmood – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study examined the effect of etymological elaboration, pictorial elucidation, and integration of these 2 strategies on idiom learning by L2 learners. A total number of 80 homogeneous intermediate learners studying English at 3 language institutes in Isfahan, Iran, were selected. The intermediate participants were selected as the result of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Learning Strategies, Etymology
Zolondek, Debbie – 1988
An analysis of a corpus of 252 specialized terms relating to the field of videotex, 144 in French and 108 in English, is presented in this document. The methods by which these terms are formed in both languages is examined, focusing on whether the terms have a linguistic basis in the French language or are borrowed from English. The differences…
Descriptors: English, Etymology, Foreign Countries, French
Peer reviewedSmith, Norval S. H.; And Others – Language in Society, 1987
Four hypotheses explaining the origin of Berbice Dutch, a Dutch-based Creole language spoken in the county of Berbice in Guyana, are explored. The most likely explanation is that the language was first spoken by Berbice slaves as a means of expressing the identity of a newly created "ethnic" group. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Creoles, Dialects, Dutch, Ethnicity
Allsopp, Richard, Ed. – 1996
This dictionary is designed to provide an inventory of English usage in the Caribbean environment and lifestyle as known and spoken in each territory but not recorded in the standard British and American desk dictionaries. It cross-references different names for the same item throughout the anglophone Caribbean, identifies different items called…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, English, Etymology, Foreign Countries
TRANEL, 1986
Papers from the linguistics colloquium address a variety of topics in linguistic theory and language research, most in French. Topics include: objectivity and subjectivity in understanding language; focalization in conversational language; the notion of "popular etymology"; serial construction in Malagasy; linguistic competence (in German);…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Communication (Thought Transfer), Computational Linguistics, Computer Assisted Instruction
PDF pending restorationStanley, John – 1996
The report describes an Ontario (Canada) project to establish standards for the written and oral languages of its natives, including two language families and 13 languages still present in the province. The project has two streams: (1) a series of language conferences intended to establish consensus within an entire community regarding standard…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Canada Natives, Dictionaries, Etymology
