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Marshall, Fred – 1983
Dissatisfaction with the standard transformational grammar approach to teaching passive voice sentences gave rise to the method developed. It is based on the framework of a lexical-functional grammar, which claims that both active and passive sentences are base-generated, and that both active and passive verb forms occur in the lexicon. It would…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English (Second Language), Generative Grammar, Language Usage
Peer reviewedMcGinnis, Scott – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1988
Discusses the treatment of Chinese word order in major theoretical works, reference grammars, and textbooks. Guidelines for teachers to give first year students include: 1)predominant Chinese word order is SVO; 2) SOV and OSV word orders are permissible but used for contrastive purposes; and 3) only certain forms are permissible for SOV and OSV.…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Typology, Language Universals, Literature Reviews
Download full textMellor, Kathleen Lukens; Broadhead, Glenn J – 1982
A Francis Christensen-oriented, "generative rhetoric" 12-step approach to sentence skills was used in two English-as-a-second-language composition courses at Wichita (Kansas) State University in 1980. The classes consisted of approximately 50% Middle Eastern students, 35% Southeast Asian students, and 15% African and South American students. Two…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, English (Second Language), Generative Grammar, Higher Education
Labbe, Raul; Varas, Amanda – 1993
A computer-based set of instructional materials, designed to teach English second-language reading skills to university-level engineering students, is described and its development is outlined. The programmed units are designed to be used individually on the computer. The stages of software development included: selection of sentence units from…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development, Curriculum Design
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
