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Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics, Washington, DC. – 1992
Linguistics is the study of language, as contrasted with knowledge of a specific language. Formal linguistics is the study of the structures and processes of language, or how it works and is organized. Different approaches to formal linguistics include traditional or prescriptive, structural, and generative or transformational perspectives. Formal…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Attitudes, Language Patterns
ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics, Washington, DC. – 1986
Linguistics is the study of human language, and has several major divisions: formal linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and applied linguistics. Formal linguistics is the study of grammar, or the development of theories about how language works and is organized. Within formal linguistics there are three major schools of thought:…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Definitions, Information Sources, Language Research
Suhor, Charles – 1984
Intended for administrators and policy makers as well as teachers, this digest explores issues surrounding methods of teaching thinking skills and who should teach them. Following an introduction that acknowledges the need for teaching such skills but a lack of consensus on how to meet this need, the digest discusses theories of isolating specific…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Coherence, Critical Thinking, Educational Theories
Cooper, Stephen – 1980
This is the fourth annual listing of graduate theses and dissertations in English as a second language (ESL). The studies cited here were completed during the academic year 1978-79. The listing is intended to provide graduate students and others doing research in ESL and related fields with specific, comprehensive data on current graduate-level…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Education
Cooper, Stephen – 1981
This is the fifth annual compilation of graduate theses and dissertations in English as a second language (ESL). This series is intended to provide researchers in ESL, bilingual education, and related fields with specific information on current graduate-level studies. Each of the sixty-nine entries provides the writer's name, thesis or…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Education
Eckard, Ronald D.; Kearny, Mary Ann – 1981
A major goal of ESL education is to teach students how to speak English well enough to converse spontaneously and naturally with native speakers. Discourse analysis provides an understanding of those skills second language learners need to acquire to converse with native speakers and an understanding of how these skills may most beneficially be…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Class Activities, Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis
