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Cuihua, Wu; Lingling, Liu – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This paper spotlights the twelve slogans of the Olympic Games in order to critically analyze the ideologies underlying the discourse. By taking the principles of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and Halliday's (1994) systemic-functional grammar (SFG) as analytical tools, the paper endeavours to reveal the ideology that predominates in the ruling…
Descriptors: Ideology, Athletics, Thematic Approach, Discourse Analysis
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Al-Saidat, Emad M.; Warsi, Mohammad J. – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2011
The major portion of this paper is devoted to delineate the types of errors made by Arab learners of English in the area of the article system. By so doing, the paper classifies learners' errors according to the Surface Structure Taxonomies of errors, and illustrates the possible sources of these errors. In order to overcome learners' difficulties…
Descriptors: Surface Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Classification
Otanes, Fe T., Ed.; Hale, Austin, Ed. – 1983
A collection of three papers written at a workshop on discourse grammar in Philippine languages is presented. The aims of the workshop were to (1) focus on discourse level grammar in the languages studied; (2) identify contrastive discourse types (genre) in the surface grammar; (3) identify the semantic constructions encoded by the different…
Descriptors: Classification, Discourse Analysis, Expressive Language, Foreign Countries
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Ford, Marilyn; Holmes, Virginia M. – Cognition, 1978
An experiment was conducted to determine whether the deep structure or the surface structure clause is more important as a speech planning unit, and whether syntactic decisions are made during sentence production. Results were discussed in relation to previous studies of pausing and speech disruption. (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Foreign Countries, Language Rhythm
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Dalgish, Gerard M. – CALICO Journal, 1986
Discusses some assumptions regarding computer-assisted language learning (CALL) in generative-based African languages, with references to Bantu languages and the OluTsooto dialect of Luyai, a language of Kenya. Elements of a computer program that produces superficial forms from underlying forms of that language are described. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: African Languages, Articulation (Speech), Bantu Languages, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Zhou, Xiaolin; Marslen-Wilson, William – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Investigates the role of morphological structure in the representation and processing of Mandarin Chinese compounds. Results provide evidence against single-layer, morpheme-based models of the Chinese mental lexicon, pointing instead to a two-layer, whole-word and morphemic model (the Multi-Level Cluster Representation Model). (67 references)…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Associative Learning, College Students, Contrastive Linguistics
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Koivukari, A. Mirjami – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
Discusses the importance of teachers of English-as-a-foreign language (EFL) in developing countries to understand the difference between teaching by rote and teaching for comprehension, primarily in the form of questions. A teacher training course that emphasized the importance of teaching for comprehension and promoting students' cognitive…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure
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Lauren, Ulla – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1987
Comparison of free written compositions of 86 bilingual (Finnish-Swedish) and 86 monolingual (Swedish) third-, sixth-, and ninth-graders in a Finland Swedish comprehensive school revealed that bilinguals produced significantly more syntactic, vocabulary, and phraseology errors. Background variables correlating with errors included the student's…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Correlation