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Peer reviewedSchwartz, Bonnie D. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1999
Defends the idea that language is a unique, genetically underwritten "module of the mind" and considers consequences such a stance holds for the psycholinguistic study of nonnative language acquisition. Supports the position that language, as conceived within the tradition of generative grammar, is unlike other types of cognition and its basis is…
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Marshall, Fred – 1983
Dissatisfaction with the standard transformational grammar approach to teaching passive voice sentences gave rise to the method developed. It is based on the framework of a lexical-functional grammar, which claims that both active and passive sentences are base-generated, and that both active and passive verb forms occur in the lexicon. It would…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English (Second Language), Generative Grammar, Language Usage
Ben-Barka, Alba C. – 1981
A study investigated some theoretical bases of two language-learning approaches, the audiolingual method and transformational grammar. Additionally, the study looked at the concept of language socialization and some anthropological concepts as they pertain to the teaching of English to speakers of other languages (TESOL). A brief historical and…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Audiolingual Methods, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Strategies
