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Bericht uber das Forschungsprojekt "Die integrierte Erzeugung zweier oder mehrerer Sprachen als grammatiktheoretisches Problem" (Report on the Research Project"The Integrated Production of Two or Several Languages as a Grammar-Theory Problem")
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Pusch, L. F. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1975
Summarizes author's work in developing a transformational-generative grammar which can account for concurrent production of two or several languages. (DH)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Syntactic Analysis of German Chemical Texts: On Constructing a Short Course in German for Chemists
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Butler, Christopher S. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1975
Describes a syntactic study (undertaken at the University of Nottingham) of some linguistic features of texts taken from recent German chemical journals. The study was intended to aid in the development and improvement of courses in German offered to students of chemistry. (RM)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Course Content, German, Grammar
"To Infinitive" and "-ing" Form Divergence in British and American English.
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Peters, F. J. J. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1980
Discusses two basic areas of difference between British and American English, namely the complementation of certain participles and the complementation of certain verbs. Complementation after "concerned" and "interested" is illustrated by several examples taken from speech and from newspaper advertisements. (AMH)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Grammar, Language Research, Language Usage
The Problem of Equivalence in Contrastive Analysis
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Bouton, Lawrence F. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1976
Challenges the notion that linguistic units which are equivalent from the point of view of being translated with ease from one language to another have a common deep structure. This notion is not seen as feasible in a transformational generative framework. (CLK)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics
The Role of Error Analysis in Clarifying Linguistic Distinctions between English "When" and its Japanese Equivalents.
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Netsu, Machiko – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1984
Discusses the production of anomalous sentences by non-native students of the Japanese language and suggests that the primary cause of various errors indicated in such sentences is the confusion with English "when." In addition, it is suggested that error analysis can help clarify the nature of grammatical problems and facilitate learning of…
Descriptors: English, Error Analysis (Language), Grammar, Japanese
Differences in Performance in Elicited Imitation between French Monolingual and English-Speaking Bilingual Children.
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Hamayan, Ellen; And Others – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1978
Reports on an experiment designed to compare the linguistic ability of English-speaking students of French to that of native French-speaking students, through sentence repetition, in order to draw some conclusions regarding approximative grammars. (AM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Elementary Education, English, French
Computer Analysis of Literature and the Teaching of French
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Willis, Clodius – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1972
Descriptors: Computers, French Literature, Grammar, Language Learning Levels
On the Nature and Use of Explicit Knowledge.
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Odlin, Terence – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1986
Explores the problem of implicit and explicit knowledge in a second language. The theoretical characterizations of Bialystok and Krashen are shown to be unsatisfactory in addressing these two problems. Some characteristics of explicit knowledge that any improved theory should be able to explain are considered. (SED)
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis
An Experiment Assessing the Relative Effectiveness of Two Methods of Teaching English Grammatical Structures to Adults
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Elek, Tibor von; Oskarsson, Mats – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1972
Descriptors: Adults, Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Processes, Educational Experiments
Linguistics and Language Teaching
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Van Ek, J. A. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1971
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Ability, Language Instruction, Language Research
Applied Generative Phonology: A Methodology for Teaching Pronunciation
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Schnitzer, Marc L. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1974
An exercise developed to aid an aphasia patient in relearning rules governing phonological changes in English was later used in a pilot study attempting to teach English pronunciation to French speakers by rule rather than by rote. The method used and the results obtained are reported. (RM)
Descriptors: Aphasia, English (Second Language), Generative Phonology, Language Instruction