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Haussamen, Brock – Visible Language, 1994
Describes general changes in sentence length, typical clause and modifier patterns, connectedness and structural explicitness over the last 400 years. Finds that the printed sentence has become shorter, the flow of information more direct, and the connections between nominalizations more implicit. Suggests that the printed sentence will continue…
Descriptors: English, Higher Education, Language Patterns, Language Research

Brown, R. A. – Visible Language, 1991
Examines societies in which varieties and degrees of literacy are possible or ordinary, such as Japan and Korea. Finds that these societies have separate but functionally interrelated writing systems, used for communicatively disparate purposes, differential mastery of which, consequently, has social and economic repercussions. Finds that…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Biber, Douglas; Barbieri, Federica – English for Specific Purposes, 2007
Lexical bundles--recurrent sequences of words--are important building blocks of discourse in spoken and written registers. Previous research has shown that lexical bundles are especially prevalent in university classroom teaching, where they serve three major discourse functions: stance expressions, discourse organizers, and referential…
Descriptors: Written Language, Higher Education, Oral Language, Academic Discourse

Robson, Ernest M. – Visible Language, 1975
Describes an alphabetic process for cuing readers to speak the three dimensions of sound: fundamental frequency, duration, and intensity. (RB)
Descriptors: English, Higher Education, Language Patterns, Language Research

Herzbrun, Philip – College English, 1978
Cites over 75 examples of errors in usage which were made by newswriters for the "Washington Post," suggesting that they indicate the social dimensions of language decay. (DD)
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Higher Education, Language Research, Language Usage

Ferrara, Kathleen; And Others – Written Communication, 1991
Examines the syntactic and stylistic features of an emergent phenomenon called Interactive Written Discourse (IWD), the written language occurring in simultaneous terminal-to-terminal typed dialogues. Finds that IWD is a naturally occurring register and a hybrid language variety, displaying characteristics of both oral and written language. Notes…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Electronic Mail, Higher Education

Sindermann, Gerda; Horsella, Maria – Applied Linguistics, 1989
Part of a research project is presented that aims at identifying the difficulties tertiary level students encounter in reading scientific texts in a foreign language and the strategies they apply to overcome them. Strategy markers are identified and listed, and are then analyzed to interpret the linguistic difficulty and the strategy used.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Research

Smith, Janet S.; Schmidt, David L. – Visible Language, 1996
Tests widely-held associations among script types, genres, writers, and target readers via statistical analysis in popular Japanese fiction. Subjects texts to lexical analysis to see whether choice of vocabulary can account for variability in script selection. Finds that Japanese writers fashion their script type choices to specific contexts, as…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Context Effect, Fiction, Higher Education

Laviosa, Sara – Italica, 1999
Examines recent studies of linguistic corpora in Italian, and presents the results of an analysis of "piace" and "piacciono" conducted on a corpus of 3.5 million words of written Italian, accessible at the University of Birmingham in England. Focuses on pedagogical applications of the data and on the inductive methodologies…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Higher Education, Italian, Language Research

Belz, Julie A. – Language Teaching Research, 2002
Argues that multiple language use in learner output is not always and exclusively indicative of the deficient nature of the language learner with respect to an idealized monolingual second language linguistic norm. Multilingual written learner texts and learners' explications of these texts are examined in detail. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, German, Higher Education, Interviews

Watt, W. C. – Visible Language, 1975
Examines two versions of the alphabet to show how psychological evidence indicates that grammar is best which best approximates the system people have in their heads. (RB)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Grammar, Higher Education, Language Patterns
Lillis, Theresa; McKinney, Carolyn – 2003
This workbook for students provides an accessible introduction to a range of ways of analyzing language in context. The workbook can be used in a number of ways, for example, as a student reference text to briefly review a particular kind of language analysis or as a course textbook to introduce students to a variety of approaches to language data…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Discourse Analysis, English, Ethnography

Kirschner, Samuel A.; Poteet, G. Howard – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Significant correlations, especially between the black and white groups, and black and Hispanic groups, indicate that all groups show similar types of non-standard English usage and generally with the same frequency. (Author)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, English Instruction, Higher Education, Language Research

Collins, James L. – English Journal, 1982
Reviews what recent research into speaking-writing relationships has to say about a particular problem of unskilled writers--those who tend to write as if they were talking. Examines the differences and interdependence of oral dialogue and written monologue. (RL)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Higher Education, Language Research, Language Styles
Gascon, Christopher D. – Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1998
The Spanish psychological verb construction seems to be especially difficult for native English-speaking learners to acquire. Since some of the most common Spanish psych verbs, such as "gustar" (to please) and "encantar" (to delight), require a grammatical structure that is different from that of the English verbs frequently…
Descriptors: English, Error Patterns, Grammar, Higher Education