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Zipke, Marcy – Teachers College Press, 2021
All students can benefit from a deeper understanding of how our language works. "Playing With Language" shows elementary school educators (K-6) how to think about, talk about, and manipulate language out of context. This cognitive skill set, known as metalinguistic awareness, is an important component of reading ability. This practical…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Metalinguistics, Elementary School Teachers, Reading Teachers
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Nagy, Tünde – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2020
When it comes to teaching vocabulary in foreign language classes words are often taught in isolation, without regard to the context in which they appear. The paper draws attention to the importance of teaching words in context so that the meaning of a word often results from the meaning of a larger construction it is part of. After presenting the…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Moats, Louisa Cook – Brookes Publishing Company, 2020
For two decades, "Speech to Print" has been a bestselling, widely adopted textbook on explicit, high-quality literacy instruction. Now the anticipated third edition is here, fully updated with ten years of new research, a complete package of supporting materials, and expanded guidance on the "how" of assessment and instruction…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Bridge, Connie – Language Arts, 1979
Discusses how patterned reading materials may be used in initial reading to help students use their semantic and syntactic knowledge to predict meaning. (DD)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Prediction, Reading Instruction
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Kliffer, Michael D. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Presents a novel approach, relying on linguistic principles of semantics, to teach grammatical usage in Spanish as a second language. (AM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Grammar, Language Instruction, Semantics
White, Marilyn – TESL Talk, 1980
The modal "should" can be taught by first delineating its meaning of "good advice," then proceeding to its meaning as expressing the speaker's sense of duty, propriety, and expediency, and finally dealing with its meaning of "reasonable expectation." The elements of "must" implicit in "should"…
Descriptors: Definitions, English (Second Language), Language Usage, Second Language Instruction
Spilka, Irene V. – Meta, 1979
Reviews the grammatical, semantic, and stylistic difficulties in translating English passive constructions into French. (AM)
Descriptors: English, French, Grammar, Language Styles
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Hunston, Susan – English Language Teaching Journal, 1980
Discusses the difficulty in recognizing and expressing the formation of concession and counter-assertion. Words like "although" and "if," while familiar in other contexts, present problems when used for these functions. While the markers for concession are interchangeable, those for counter-assertion are not. Two different types of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Usage, Pragmatics, Second Language Instruction
Camaiora, Luisa Conti – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1979
Discusses the problems involved in teaching Italian students the English equivalents of the verb "dovere." (CFM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Italian, Language Instruction
Rothman, Rosalind W.; Cohen, Jill – Academic Therapy, 1989
The article offers teachers suggestions on ways to instruct elementary students in the vocabulary of mathematics. It gives examples of math difficulties at the elementary school level, math difficulties related to vocabulary, and math difficulties related to problem solving. (DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Problems, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving
Hughes, George; Chinn, Clark – 1986
Beyond the first several thousand most commonly used words in a language, direct vocabulary instruction is not efficient. Use of inferential skills then becomes the most effective way of learning new vocabulary; it is the way native speakers build their 60,000 word vocabularies. Because the skill is not automatically transferable, it must be…
Descriptors: Classification, Context Clues, Inferences, Reading Skills
Lerat, Pierre – Francais dans le Monde, 1985
Typical contemporary ways of forming word derivations and composite words in French are outlined and discussed, and the distinctions between different types of composites are noted. (MSE)
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics, French, Lexicology
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Carlisle, Joanne F. – Annals of Dyslexia, 1983
Fifteen exercises are presented that are intended to increase reading comprehension in seventh and eighth graders via emphasis on word recognition, language comprehension (syntax and semantics), and reasoning skills (including inference, analogies, relationships, and direction following). (CL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Junior High Schools, Learning Activities, Reading Comprehension
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Resnick, Melvyn C. – Hispania, 1984
Problems encountered in attempting to teach the Spanish verb system can be traced to misconceptions arising from the inadequate or misleading names of many of the tenses. The nature of descriptive terminology is the level at which the problem of nomenclature is treated in this study. (SL)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Research, Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning
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Staab, Claire F. – Reading Improvement, 1982
Presents five principles for restructuring classroom activities to obtain a maximum amount of oral language. Claims that by expanding children's oral language, their semantic and syntactic cuing systems to print will also be strengthened. (FL)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Context Clues, Elementary Education
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