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Marzluf, Phillip P. – College Composition and Communication, 2006
Though diversity serves as a valuable source for rhetorical inquiry, expressivist instructors who privilege diversity writing may also overemphasize the essential authenticity of their students' vernaculars. This romantic and salvationist impulse reveals the troubling implications of eighteenth-century Natural Language Theory and may,…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Linguistic Performance, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory
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Rystrom, Richard – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1972
Discusses the effect of sentence structure on the reading acquistition process of beginning readers. (RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Linguistic Performance, Linguistic Theory, Reading Skills
Mayher, John Sawyer – New York University Education Quarterly, 1973
Each speaker-hearer commands a language system that he uses unconsciously as he speaks and writes. Discovery of the rules underlying that system shows the futility of some accepted teaching practices and suggests other approaches. (Author)
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Usage, Linguistic Performance, Linguistic Theory
Sanders, Carol – Modern Languages, 1975
Reviews the relationship between linguistic theory and language teaching. The suggestion is made that a teaching approach should not be based completely on one theory, be it structuralist or generative. In selecting an approach, the teacher should draw selectively on various linguistic theories, on educational psychology, and on practical…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Educational Psychology, Language Instruction, Learning Processes
O'Donnell, W. R.; Fraser, Hugh – Teaching English, CITE Newsletter, 1970
A distinction should be made between linguistics as a science and applied linguistics as a technology, the latter being of great potential for language classroom problem solving, the former to be saved for later, more mature study. The English teacher's main concern in language study is to impart to students the effective use of language (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Critical Reading, English Instruction, Language Skills
Scott, Charles T. – 1970
Noam Chomsky's numerous criticisms of formerly well-accepted beliefs about the nature of language learning (e.g. in his review of Skinner's "Verbal Behavior") have led to a diversity of views regarding the potential application of transformational theory to the teaching of English as a second language/dialect. It seems clear, moreover, that his…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Black Dialects, Child Language, Deep Structure
Topping, D. M. – 1969
This paper attempts to discuss some of the implications of transformational grammar for language analysis and language learning. The author covers the following points: (1) transformational grammar--some background and some claims, and some linguistic and psychological implications; (2) which, if any, of the claims of transformational grammar are…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Universals
Rutherford, William E. – 1973
Most of what has been taught in the language classroom for a long while has been generally a reflection of the particular concept of language popular among linguistics at the time, but recently this trend has begun to break down. Recent texts are starting to be organized according to considerations besides linguistic criteria, for example,…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Communication (Thought Transfer), English (Second Language), Language Instruction
Kaplan, Robert B. – 1972
This book provides a discussion of rhetoric and its importance in second language learning in general, with specific remarks on problems in teaching English as a second language. Logic (not in the strictest philosophical sense), the basic rhetoric, is evolved out of a culture; it is not universal. Rhetoric is not universal either. Rhetorical…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Connected Discourse, Cultural Differences, Educational Strategies