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Peer reviewedKnapp, Margaret O. – Journal of Reading, 1975
Outlines a course on language patterns, dialects, and reading for teachers of culturally different students. (RB)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Disadvantaged, Language Patterns, Language Usage
Seymour, Dorothy Z. – Elem Engl, 1970
A teacher comments critically on linguists' pronouncements concerning reading instruction and English usage. (RD)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Patterns, Language Usage, Lexicography
Download full textGoodman, Kenneth S.; Bird, Lois Bridges – 1982
Analyzing word frequency in six complete texts, a study investigated how vocabulary can be used to define texts. The texts included three stories from 5th and 6th grade readers, selections from literature anthologies for 8th grade and 12th grade students, and a magazine essay for adults. Results indicated that if particular words occur frequently…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Usage
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
SKINNER, VINCENT P. – 1967
IT IS IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT APPALACHIAN CHILDREN ARE NOT ILLITERATES. THEY HAVE A VERY SOPHISTICATED LANGUAGE WITH WHICH THEY COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY WITHIN THEIR OWN COMMUNITY. THEIR LANGUAGE SYSTEM, HOWEVER, IS NOT LIKE THE STANDARD AMERICAN ENGLISH, BUT IS LEARNED ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY FROM ORAL TRADITION AND HAS CHANGED VERY LITTLE FOR…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Communication Skills, Illiteracy, Language Patterns
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
Shuy, Roger W. – 1976
This paper describes the past assumptions about the mismatch of child language and school language, noting the distance principle, the characteristics of language interference and the various treatments that have been hypothesized. Past research involving language mismatch and reading is reviewed, and it is noted that even though the best evidence…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Style, Dialects, Elementary Education
Selman, Mary – 1979
This handbook provides basic information about adult learning as it relates to acquiring another language. It is intended to serve as an introduction to more comprehensive study for instructors and tutors. The guide provides some information on the following subjects: (1) an outline of reasons for adapting existing textbook material and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Audiolingual Skills
Caouette, Claudine, Ed.; Larrivee, Pierre, Ed. – 1997
English translations of articles in French in this issue include these: "Discourse Reported in the Print Media"; "Comparison of Register in Quebec and French Speakers"; "Method of Description of Specialized Verbs in View of Machine Translation Applications"; "Dialectal Areas in the Brazilian State of Rio Grande…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Biblical Literature, Braille, Contrastive Linguistics
