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Canale, Michael; Swain, Merrill – 1981
An outline is provided of the contents and boundaries of three areas of competence, or systems of knowledge, that are to be minimally included in a theory of communicative competence: grammatical competence, sociolinguistic competence, and strategic competence. Grammatical competence is concerned with the rules of sentence grammar and sentence…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Grammar, Language Research, Language Usage
Zughoul, Muhammad Raji – English Teaching Forum, 1979
English prepositions are generally considered difficult to teach to nonnative speakers, for a variety of reasons: the large number of possible meanings for many prepositions, which change according to the context in which they are used; the lack of a written guide to usage; and, for native Arabic speakers, the commonly-used grammar-translation…
Descriptors: Arabic, Classification, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Peer reviewedOpoku, J. Y. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
Study of native speakers of Yoruba who spoke English as a second language found that transfer of learning from one language to the other decreased with increasing proficiency in English. Transfer from Yoruba to English was higher than from English to Yoruba at lower levels of proficiency in English. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis
Corder, S. P., Ed.; Roulet, E., Ed. – 1974
Papers from the 1973 Neuchatel Colloquium in Applied Linguistics are presented. Contents are as follows: "Karttunen's Types of Implication in English and German: A Contrastive Study," W. Abraham; "The Relevance of Generative Semantics for Language Teaching," R. Dirven; "'Be' plus 'ing' Revisited," H. Adamczeski; "The So-Called Deep Structures and…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis
PDF pending restorationEssex Univ., Colchester (England). Dept. of Language and Linguistics. – 1970
This volume consists of three articles. "'Language and Society' in the B.A. Scheme," by L. M. O'Toole, is a revised version of some proposals for incorporating a "Language and Society" course in the second year of the B.A. program at the Language Centre. Ten propositions are offered as a basis for discussion. "Some Soviet…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, College Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Computational Linguistics
