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Download full textRen, Junhong; Wang, Na – English Language Teaching, 2015
This survey investigates to what degree the Chinese learners know about the discrepancies between Chinese and English thought patterns and their possible effects on English writing. Eighty-one students from North China Electric Power University participate in the survey. Qualitative and quantities approaches, involving the adoption of both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Surveys, English (Second Language), College Students
Danesi, Marcel – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1986
Explores some of the suggestive research on metaphor and extrapolates some general implications for second language learning and teaching. Communicating effectively in a second language involves one's ability to metaphorize. Moreover, the understanding of metaphor makes the learning process more meaningful for the student. (CB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages), Figurative Language, Heuristics
Peer reviewedHeafford, Michael – Language Learning Journal, 1993
Attempts to clarify the role of grammar in second-language instruction. It is suggested that changes in language teaching have encouraged the view that grammar is one of several dimensions along which learners need to progress to achieve greater proficiency but that it should not be dominant. (22 references) (CK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Course Organization, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Mondahl, Margrethe; Jensen, Knud Anker – 1989
Advanced learners' processing of linguistic knowledge in connection with a translation task from Danish into English is discussed. The focus of the discussion is on learners' use of different types of linguistic knowledge (the degree to which they use this linguistic knowledge and the form in which it is represented). The following issues are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Danish, English (Second Language), Grammar
Peer reviewedChapman, David – On-Call, 1997
Investigates the effect of oral and electronic media on interaction patterns by learners of Japanese as a second language. The framework for the analysis of learner is speech act theory, which provides a richly developed set of descriptive categories by which to examine interactional processes. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Computer Mediated Communication, Discourse Analysis
Morley, Joan, Ed. – 1987
A collection of essays on pronunciation instruction theory and practice includes: "Teaching Pronunciation as Communication" (Marianne Celce-Murcia); "Learner Variables and Prepronunciation Considerations in Teaching Pronunciation" (Rita Wong); "Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension" (Judy B. Gilbert); "Pronunciation Tutorials for Nonnative…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Educational Strategies, English (Second Language)
Bird, Norman, Ed.; And Others – 1994
Papers from a 1993 International Conference on Language in Education include: "A Language Development Approach to Education" (M. A. K. Halliday); Text, Talk, and Inquiry: Schooling as a Semiotic Apprenticeship" (G. Wells); "Chinese Orthography and Reading" (O. J. L. Tzeng); "Task-Centred Assessment in Language…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Educational Strategies
