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Hollerbach, Wolf – 1975
The serious student of language, English or foreign, and especially the future language teacher must receive a solid training not only in theoretical but also in applied syntax. Such a course should be offered at the advanced level and deal with the syntax of the language involved in a rigorously systematic way. The search for a systematic, yet…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Grammar
Download full textDato, Daniel P. – 1970
This project seeking to develop sound methodological research techniques for second-language is based on an initial pilot study which (1) identified and classifies the utterances of a child learning Spanish as a second language, and (2) determines whether there are any significant trends in the observed order of learning of kernels and transformed…
Descriptors: Child Language, Componential Analysis, Generative Grammar, Kernel Sentences
Peer reviewedCrymes, Ruth – TESOL Quarterly, 1971
Paper presented at the TESOL Convention, March 1971, New Orleans, Louisiana, based on a study supported in part by a University of Hawaii Curriculum Development Grant. (VM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Educational Experiments, English (Second Language), Language Instruction
Peer reviewedCooper, Robert L. – TESOL Quarterly, 1970
Rejects the assumptions which underlie the audiolingual method and offers two alternative propositions: (1) successful use of language requires the acquisition of communicative as well as linguistic competence and (2) first and second language learning are analogous processes. (Author/FB)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Instruction
Scott, Charles T. – 1970
Noam Chomsky's numerous criticisms of formerly well-accepted beliefs about the nature of language learning (e.g. in his review of Skinner's "Verbal Behavior") have led to a diversity of views regarding the potential application of transformational theory to the teaching of English as a second language/dialect. It seems clear, moreover, that his…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Black Dialects, Child Language, Deep Structure
Crymes, Ruth – 1971
The transformational-generative concept of language learning as constructing a theory about language inspired this experiment. Language performance developed by a method of language learning designed to help the student study about a second language through manipulative exercises was compared to language performance developed by a method not…
Descriptors: Adults, Applied Linguistics, Educational Experiments, English (Second Language)
Quinn, Terence J. – 1974
Recent evaluations of the influence of linguistics on language teaching indicate that there is a growing gulf between the two fields. Linguistics failed to provide a sound theoretical foundation for language teaching; it did not alter the content of language teaching, nor did it successfully modify the attitudes of teachers. The parameters of the…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Higher Education
