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Direct linkCarrigan, Richard P. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2009
Ads that read, "If you can speak it, you can teach it," attracted thousands of young people to travel the world to teach English as a Second Language (ESL). English language schools of the 1960s and 1970s flourished with the influx of native speakers who were given a scripted textbook with all the "right" things to say. However, by the end of the…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Dethloff, Uwe – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1980
Defines the approach of textlinguistics to the study of TV messages' comprehension, starting from the basic criterion that comprehension depends on the global semantic structure of the message and on the situational context of the communicants. On this basis the potential of television as a tool for language instruction is discussed. (MES)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Content Analysis, Context Clues, Descriptive Linguistics
