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Download full textTurner, G. W. – Opinion, The Journal of the South Australian English Teacher's Assn., 1967
A delineation of the differences between speaking and writing should clarify the functions and possible future of prose. Speech has a speaker to provide language with inflectional stress and a visible audience to respond immediately to that language. On the other hand, prose ("an art of written language")--which is separated in time from an…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Language, Language Patterns, Language Rhythm
Murden, Ronald – 1968
Directed to the stammerer, the text provides a course of correction based on normal speaking principles. Speech re-education is described in terms of the following: the attitude needed; faults of breathing, vocalization, and articulation; discovery of the natural voice; pace; breathing; volume and resonance; mental conception; and corrective…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Emotional Problems, Exceptional Child Education, Habit Formation
Kjeldergaard, Paul M.; And Others – 1969
This report describes in two volumes the proceedings of a conference on the perception of language held at the University of Pittsburgh in January, 1968. The objectives of the conference, to present the particular research interests of the participants and to attempt to find points of concurrence in thinking through discussion of the conference…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Articulation (Speech), Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Odisho, Edward Y. – 1992
A study examines two major types of vowel systems in languages, centripetal and centrifugal. English is associated with the centripetal system, in which vowel quality and quantity (rhythm) are heavily influenced by stress. In this system, vowels have a strong tendency to move toward the center of the vowel area. Spanish is associated with the…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
Dolbec, Jean, Ed.; Ouellet, Marise, Ed. – 1996
The collection of essays on phonetics and phonology, entirely in French, includes: "Le calcul de la frequence intrinseque. Necessite du rapport a une ligne de reference" (calculation of intrinsic frequency; necessity of a line of reference) (Conrad Ouellon); "Caracteristiques microprosodiques de duree et d'intensite en lecture et en…
Descriptors: African Languages, Arabic, Bulgarian, Consonants
Olson, Paul A. – Louisiana English Journal, 1969
When the English teacher understands his "place" as being an "office" that he holds in relation to his students and the lives they live with their language, he will abandon the abstract and often irrelevant "domains" of English and avoid repeating in the classroom what culture has already done for the students. As he intervenes in their education,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deduction, Educational Change, Elementary Education
Temple, Liz – Francais dans le Monde, 1994
A method for highlighting aspects of oral communication for French second-language learners is described. Students are videotaped mimicking a one-minute passage in French, which is recorded over the video. The dubbed student performance illustrates the role of body language, rhythm, intonation, and other factors in speech. (MSE)
Descriptors: Body Language, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, French
Maynard, Senko K. – 1986
The casual conversation of six pairs of Japanese and six pairs of American colleges students was analyzed for evidence of two related aspects of conversation management: the linguistic characteristics of utterance units and back-channel strategies. Utterance units are defined as those occurring between identifiable pauses or breaks in tempo.…
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis, English
Pike, Kenneth L. – 1945
The material in this book is the result of an investigation to determine how to teach English intonation effectively and to find the smallest number of patterns which could be used as a basis for initial drills in the language. The book presents a statement of the structure of the English intonation system in relation to the structural systems of…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Intonation
Poyatos, Fernando – 1970
To understand the Spanish speaker one must be aware of the many facets of Hispanic culture and the various means of communicating that language and that culture. The two main forms of communication, linguistics and paralinguistics, convey the speaker's behavior and identify him as a member of the Hispanic culture. Linguistic patterns in Spanish…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context
Key, Mary Ritchie; And Others – 1971
This paper points out some linguistic and stylistic features of Black English as spoken by children and discusses the occurrence of particular language patterns. Examples of distinct intonation patterns, paralinguistic effects, language rhythm, and other phonological features are all considered. A statistical survey of particular age-group usage…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Black Dialects, Child Language, Distinctive Features (Language)
South, M. S. – 1975
Modern poetry can be used as instructional material in beginning foreign language courses to offer a change of pace from the regular instructional materials and an introduction to the literature in the target language. Students also take pride in understanding original literary products of the language being taught. Modern poetry proves to be more…
Descriptors: German, German Literature, Imagery, Instructional Materials
Carlson, Ruth Kearney – 1968
Ways of introducing children to the pleasures and value of poetry are discussed in this publication. Following a brief survey of various kinds of poems and the needs satisfied by poetry, some of the vocabulary and technical elements of poetic design--meter, stanza, rhyme, figures of speech, and selected verse forms--are explained and illustrated.…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Writing, Cultural Enrichment, Descriptive Writing
Leon, Pierre R., Ed.; And Others – 1970
The ten papers in this collection are based on presentations given during a colloquium held November 14-15, 1969, at the University of Toronto. The papers, written in either English or French, cover various topics related to prosodic feature analysis in general; several concern the analysis of specific languages. General topics include discussions…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), Artificial Speech, Auditory Perception
APPLEGATE, MAUREE – 1965
ADDRESSED TO THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT FACED WITH A POETRY-WRITING ASSIGNMENT, THIS BOOK PRESENTS THE ARGUMENT THAT "POETRY IS FOR YOU." INDIVIDUAL CHAPTERS TREAT (1) THE EXPRESSION OF SENSORY IMPRESSIONS, (2) RHYTHM, (3) THE PICTORIAL NATURE OF POETRY, (4) HUMOROUS POETRY, (5) REVISION, AND (6) VARIOUS DEFINITIONS OF POETRY. A "KINDLE KIT"…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, English Instruction, Figurative Language
