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Martin, Graham D. C. – Neueren Sprachen, 1973
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Language Research, Language Usage, Monetary Systems
Seigel, Don M. – 1983
A replication was conducted of Sterling Leonard's 1932 survey of "Current English Usage," which submitted a questionnaire of expressions to judges consisting of linguists, journalists, teachers, and businessmen. It was hypothesized that more of the expressions in Leonard's study would be acceptable today (looser standards) than was the…
Descriptors: English, Grammatical Acceptability, Language Attitudes, Language Research
Download full textBarker, Glenn; Sorhus, Helen – 1975
This four volume study and report was undertaken to aid students of English as a second language by encouraging them to make use of fixed expression (cliche) as a nonliteral filler when speaking. Over 135,000 words of natural language were examined and a range fixed expressions were isolated and placed into the categories of interjection,…
Descriptors: Cliches, English (Second Language), Language Patterns, Language Research
Chiu, Rosaline K. – 1973
In the last 15 years much attention has been devoted to the identification and description of varieties (register and style) of language within the same speech community. The Research Section, Directorate of Studies, Staff Development Branch, Public Service Commission of Canada carried out three TESL-oriented linguistic studies on the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Government Employees, Language Patterns
MARCKWARDT, ALBERT H. – 1963
TO DISPEL THE MYSTERIES SURROUNDING LINGUISTICS, ENGLISH TEACHERS SHOULD UNDERSTAND CERTAIN FEATURES OF THE LANGUAGE AS THEY ARE PERCEIVED BY THE LINGUIST. THE LINGUIST SEES LANGUAGE AS "A SYSTEM OF PATTERNED VOCAL BEHAVIOR BY MEANS OF WHICH MEN COOPERATE IN SOCIETY." BY USING RIGOROUS SCIENTIFIC METHODS, HE STUDIES REPRESENTATIVE AND AUTHENTIC…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English Instruction, Function Words, Language
Wepman, Joseph M.; Morency, Anne S. – 1967
A study, at the University of Chicago, of 177 unselected children--an entire first-grade class of normal intelligence, of common ethnic background, and within 6 months of their sixth birthday--was made to determine (1) whether those children with speech inaccuracies consistent enough to qualify them for speech therapy would achieve in their school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Discrimination, Delayed Speech
Smith, Henry Lee, Jr. – 1968
A new fundamental tool of analysis, the morphophone, is presented in this monograph, and some implications of this discovery for the problems involved in the teaching of literacy are considered. The relation of written to spoken English is explored first, for experience has shown that the basic problem in becoming literate is gaining the ability…
Descriptors: Dialects, English Instruction, Form Classes (Languages), Language Instruction
