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Peer reviewedHinkel, Eli – TESOL Quarterly, 1993
In a survey, 130 English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students were asked to describe the meanings of English tenses in terms of time concepts used in ESL grammar texts. Results suggest that grammar teaching utilizing descriptions of time accepted in English-speaking communities to explain usages and meanings of English tenses can limit learner…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedCarroll, John B. – TESOL Quarterly, 1971
Paper presented at the TESOL Convention, March 1971, in New Orleans, Louisiana. (DS)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Grammar, Grammar Translation Method, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedDiller, Karl C. – TESOL Quarterly, 1975
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Generative Grammar
Peer reviewedMilon, John P. – TESOL Quarterly, 1974
Descriptors: Child Language, English (Second Language), Grammar, Japanese
Peer reviewedBardovi-Harlig, Kathleen; Reynolds, Dudley W. – TESOL Quarterly, 1995
Reports on a study of adult learners' use of the simple past tense that showed that past tense acquisition occurs in stages determined by the lexical aspects of verbs. The article also describes a pedagogical approach for increasing accurate past tense use through contextualized examples in authentic texts and focused noticing exercises. (Contains…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Adult Education, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedRichards, Jack C. – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
Discusses a technique for teaching the usage of the present perfect tense to students of English as a second language. (CFM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedFrazier, Stefan – TESOL Quarterly, 2003
Reports findings of a corpus analysis of a grammatical structure taught in intermediate- or advanced-level English-as-a-Second-/Foreign-Language texts: clauses that contain the modal "would" to signify hypothetical and counterfactual meaning. Categorizes the conditional and hypothetical uses of would-clauses in spoken and written corpora…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Grammar, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewedCook, Walter A. – TESOL Quarterly, 1978
English modal verbs constitute a problem for the student of English as a foreign language. This study presents a methodology for a systematic presentation of the meaning of modal verbs. The modals "can,""may,""must," and "have to" are studied. (SW)
Descriptors: English, English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedMcCarthy, Michael; Carter, Ronald – TESOL Quarterly, 2001
Examines how language corpora can inform the pedagogic process and asks who is to be the voice of authority with regard to spoken grammar. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Grammar, Oral Language
Peer reviewedRutherford, William E. – TESOL Quarterly, 1974
Urges the combination of grammatical instruction with pragmatic spoken usage in the teaching of language. (LG)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, English (Second Language), Grammar, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedO'Keeffe, Anne; Farr, Fiona – TESOL Quarterly, 2003
Makes a case for including corpus linguistics in initial language teacher education to enhance teachers' research skills and language awareness. Offers examples of corpus-based tasks for increasing students' understanding of word classes, register-related grammatical choices, and socioculturally conditioned grammatical choices. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Grammar, Metalinguistics
Peer reviewedManuchehri, Parivash – TESOL Quarterly, 1974
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Form Classes (Languages)
Peer reviewedDeCarrico, Jeanette S. – TESOL Quarterly, 1986
Unless a clear distinction is made between the semantic time reference of the modal "perfect" and that of the present perfect aspect, these forms will remain confusing to students of English as a second language. A brief sequence is suggested for teaching modals which incorporates and clarifies these time relationships and simplifies the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Semantics
Peer reviewedTucker, G. Richard; Sarofim, Marian – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
This study examined the sensitivity of adult second language learners to deviance in English sentences. The subjects were 18 Egyptian, Arabic-speaking students attending classes at the English Language Institute of the American University in Cairo. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: Arabic, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Evaluation Criteria
Peer reviewedScovel, Thomas – TESOL Quarterly, 1971
Paper presented at the TESOL Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1971. (VM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Instruction
