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Choudhury, Anindya Syam – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2015
Although it is a core component of a language user's overall linguistic competence, vocabulary has traditionally not received the kind of attention it deserved, being usually lumped with other kinds of competence till 1980s and 1990s when researchers started focusing on it with great interest. The present paper discusses what the notion of lexical…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Case Studies, Vocabulary Development

Suty, Karen A.; Friel-Patti, Sandy – Sign Language Studies, 1982
Examines the spontaneous language of deaf children without forcing the analysis to fit the features of a spoken language system. Suggests linguistic competence of deaf children is commensurate with their cognitive age and is not adequately described by the standard spoken English language tests. (EKN)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Deafness, Language Acquisition
Chapman, Tim – 1977
This report is the outcome of an attempt to relate what may be called the "Le Pagean view of competence" to a linguistic community very different from that which gave rise to the concept. While upholding the general principles, the paper contends that the methodology elaborated for work in fluid creole communities may not be universally…
Descriptors: Association Measures, Association (Psychology), Bilingualism, French
Hisel, Wanda Coffield – 1974
The purposes of this study were to develop an informal language inventory for classroom teachers to use in screening a child's speech, to have classroom teachers use the inventory with students to determine if they could use it, and to determine if teachers would use the assessment form after they had had some experience with it. The development…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Language Arts, Language Research

Dromi, Esther; Berman, Ruth A. – Journal of Child Language, 1982
Discusses the establishment of a morpheme-per-utterance (MPU) index as opposed to the standard mean-length of utterance (MLU) for measuring the linguistic proficiency of two- to three-year-old Hebrew speakers. (EKN)
Descriptors: Child Language, Hebrew, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Bookbinder-Brown, Susan J.; Dimmick, Kenneth D. – 1974
Previous studies dealing with the age at which children acquire constituent order preferences have been in conflict. This study was designed to determine if children with normal language development demonstrate constituent order preferences as early as age three and one-half, or a mean age of four years, one month. To test this competency, an…
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Imitation, Language Ability

Klein-Braley, Christine – Language Testing, 1985
Presents the theory of general language proficiency and looks at the construct validation of cloze tests and C-tests. Describes the defects of classical cloze procedures. Gives an example of the C-Test and discusses its empirical validity. Concludes that C-tests are authentic tests of the construct of general language proficiency.
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Language Proficiency, Language Research
Fischer, Robert A. – 1981
This paper examines the relationship between linguistic and communicative competence in terms of the student's acquisition of French as a foreign language and the interface of testing for each competence in the context of achievement testing. Reaching an acceptable level of communicative competence requires practice and guidance in understanding…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Objectives, French, Higher Education
Oller, John W., Jr. – 1975
The entries in this annotated bibliography are divided into four major sections. The first includes some of the arguments pro and con on the cloze procedure and a few research studies along with some articles that give "how-to" recommendations. The second major section includes five subsections: the first deals with basic research concerning the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cloze Procedure, English (Second Language), Instructional Materials
Sanchez, Liliana – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2006
This article discusses some of the challenges that researchers working in the fields of bilingualism and second-language acquisition (SLA) and in the field of language testing face in developing comparable and culturally and cognitively appropriate data collection and language assessment tools for bilingual children from rural minority-language…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Oral Language, Bilingual Students, Language Research
Olaofe, I. A. – IRAL, 1992
A model for assessing communicative ability is presented that is prompted by the fact that most error analysts in the past concentrated on morphemic and syntactic levels. It is suggested that emphasis must shift from acquisition of linguistic competence per se to communicative competence. (23 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Communicative Competence (Languages), Error Analysis (Language), Foreign Countries
Pialorsi, Frank Paul – 1974
The present paper reports on a study conducted in 1973, designed to measure the English competence and performance of bilingual fourth graders in selected schools in southern Arizona and the extent to which the first language (Spanish) interfered with the second (English). The study also attempted to determine which patterns might yet be unlearned…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Bellin, Wynford; Natsopoulos, Dimitris – 1976
Investigations using English have shown that a number of linguistic constructions associated with reporting verbs, and verbs concerning plans, present comprehension difficulties to children over the age of five. The corresponding constructions in Greek involved ambiguity appreciation, and tests of monoglots and bilinguals indicated that a…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Bilingualism, Child Language, Children
Crable, Elaine Ann; Johnson, David – 1976
A study was carried out to test the hypothesis that a difference exists between the results of a paradigmatic/syntagmatic word association test given in an individual's native language and in his second language. The sample used in this study consists of 23 Iranian officers attending a course at Air University in Alabama. Their primary language is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes
Seliger, Herbert W. – 1977
Six adult students of English as a second language were ranked according to individual input into classroom oral interaction. Four hypotheses were then tested, regarding correlation between degree of input generation on the one hand and achievement and performance on the other. It was found that: (1) high input generators (HIGs) performed better…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cloze Procedure, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language)
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