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Bruns, Gerald L. – Coll Engl, 1970
Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) in Denver, Colorado, December 26-30, 1969. (DS)
Descriptors: English, Figurative Language, Formal Criticism, Language Patterns
Turner, G. W. – Opinion, The Journal of the South Australian English Teacher's Assn., 1967
A delineation of the differences between speaking and writing should clarify the functions and possible future of prose. Speech has a speaker to provide language with inflectional stress and a visible audience to respond immediately to that language. On the other hand, prose ("an art of written language")--which is separated in time from an…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Language, Language Patterns, Language Rhythm
Dabars, Zita D., Ed. – 1991
Some papers from a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) symposium, "Significant Russian/Soviet Cultural and Pedagogical Developments of the 1980s: Educating American Students for the Year 2000," are presented. After an explanation of the system of transliteration used in the works, the following papers and authors are included:…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries, Institutes (Training Programs)
Katchen, Johanna E. – 1988
The paper describes activities incorporating literature, music, and cultural material that are used with foreign language majors at National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) and makes suggestions for their use in the pronunciation class. Even at advanced levels, Asian students of English as a second language (ESL) have difficulty with English…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language)