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Flemming, Donald N. – 1980
Modern linguistic theory offers two main contributions to the improvement of writing: readability and appropriateness. Readability can be developed by improving the correctness of forms used and achieved by carrying out an error analysis on the student's writing to provide insights into errors and clause structure. Linguists have determined that…
Descriptors: College English, Higher Education, Linguistic Theory, Structural Grammar
Huddleston, Rodney – 1989
This report offers a critique, from a linguistic viewpoint of the approach to grammatical description and prescription found in commonly used Australian school textbooks in 1987. Attention was directed solely towards grammatical content. A review of 41 primary and secondary level texts was conducted. All texts were published in Australia, and all…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English, Foreign Countries, Grammatical Acceptability

Ney, James W. – Written Communication, 1986
Examines some of the theoretical and practical objections to error analysis and proposes it would be more appropriate for teachers to lead students through the use of creative language exercises into the use of many of the possible sentences in a language. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Language Patterns
Caissie, Roland – 1982
A system for classifying English predicates into four families that account for all forms, moods, voices, and tenses is examined as an approach to teach grammar to students of English as a second language (ESL). It is suggested that by focusing on one family at a time, then building by combining these families, students can learn more readily to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Grammar, Instructional Design
Pack, Alice C., Ed. – 1968
Four issues of "TESL Reporter" are presented. Contents include the following articles: ''An Approach to the [I] [i] Contrast" by William D. Conway; "Native Language Environment Is Source of Confusion" by Alice Pack; "The Origin of Language: A Puzzle With Missing Pieces"; "Terminal Behavior and Language…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English (Second Language)