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Download full textKatranides, Aristotle – 1970
The relevance, the application, and the importance of linguistics to teaching English as a foreign language is discussed. The author's assumption is that linguistics is "irrelevant to the aims, and inapplicable to the tasks of such teaching," and agrees with linguists such as Rosenbaum that the goal of linguistic science is "to determine…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics
Orf, Rolf-Jurgen – Neueren Sprachen, 1972
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Linguistics
Allen, Harold B., Comp. – 1966
This bibliography is intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate students who desire a convenient guide to linguistic scholarship in English, education, linguistics, and related areas. The listing is selective, but the compiler has tried to provide ample coverage of the major fields and topics, with emphasis on works published in the…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Bilingualism, Child Language, Dialects
Krohn, Robert – Lang Learning, 1970
Paper presented at the TESOL convention, March 1970. (DS)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedAid, Frances M. – TESOL Quarterly, 1974
Revised Version of a paper presented at the 1973 TESOL Convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (HW)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Distinctive Features (Language), English (Second Language), Generative Grammar
Glaap, Albert-Reiner – Neueren Sprachen, 1972
A proposal for grammatical pluralism and view of the potential contributions of the descriptive, contrastive, and transformational schools of grammar analysis to classroom language instruction. (RS)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Grammar
Peer reviewedNey, James W. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1980
Discusses the implications for language teaching of Chomskyean and transformational theory. The notions of deep structure, linguistic theory building, and inutility of a corpus are far less interesting than the view of language as rule-governed behavior and language learning as hypothesis-testing. Rationalist v behaviorist theories are discussed.…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, English (Second Language)
Fraser, Bruce – 1970
This paper asserts the "unquestionable" relevance of linguistic insights in the training of and subsequent use by teachers of English as a foreign language. Although the author agrees with Chomsky's view that linguistics has nothing to offer the teacher in the form of specific proposals for language teaching methodology, he argues that linguistics…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Educational Media, English (Second Language), Language Instruction
Goldstein, Miriam B. – 1966
This book describes for parents the effects that recent developments in language study have had on the English curriculum. The discussion covers (1) literacy (language development in small children, spelling, reading, writing, and bilingualism); (2) grammar (structural linguistics, transformational grammar, and the new textbooks); (3) usage…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Dictionaries
