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Peer reviewedDelisle, Helga H. – Die Unterrichtspraxis, 1982
Discusses the benefits of short answers and how they differ in German and English. Provides hints on how to teach students to produce reduced answers that are grammatically acceptable in spoken German. (EKN)
Descriptors: German, Language Patterns, Language Proficiency, Language Usage
Download full textAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC. – 1991
This booklet is divided into two sections. Section 1, "A Few Words on Language, Courtesies, and Stereotypes," gives suggestions on speaking to and about people with disabilities. Principles of language use include: (1) put people first, not their disability; (2) avoid identifying a group of people as a disability category; (3) avoid…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Adults, Consultants, Disabilities
Dumond, Val – 1993
Noting that grammar is alive, changing, and controversial, this book offers a combination of guidelines and creative language use for people who have already been exposed to the rules of grammar to help them start building their own style of speaking and writing. The first part of the book "Recalling the Parts of Speech," provides a…
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Language Patterns, Language Usage
Ontario Women's Directorate, Toronto. – 1993
Language can both reflect and shape the way people are treated in today's society. It can be used to open doors when it is gender inclusive, or to create barriers when it is not. The goal of this booklet is to encourage gender-inclusive language. Bias-free language is effective language. A number of studies demonstrate that an audience is more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes, Language Patterns, Language Usage
Peer reviewedChaim, Robert A. – Journal of Legal Education, 1983
A model is proposed for analysis of the patterns of language usage among lawyers. The model accommodates any sample of legal language from any type of legal document and can be applied to lexical and syntactic elements as well as whole documents. One example of legal language is illustrated. (MSE)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English for Special Purposes, Higher Education, Language Patterns
Stewart, Nea – Australian Journal of Reading, 1979
Describes five videotapes drawn from a conference on teacher education. The tapes discuss alternative ways of viewing current problems in reading and language development, the "Breakthrough to Literacy" program developed in Great Britain, language codes, language as a resource, and language as a part of human behavior. (FL)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Language Ability
Herrick, Earl M. – 1978
This computer program, a mechanization of the handsorted techniques which geographical dialectology has been using, increases the number of hypotheses that can be explored and the various correlations that can be made. It can draw several of the kinds of maps that dialectologists have used in direct atlases. The hardware, software, and program…
Descriptors: Atlases, Computational Linguistics, Computer Oriented Programs, Dialect Studies
