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Coleman, Robert – Didaskalos, 1967
A review of the problems encountered in studying literary texts focuses on the dangers of treating the text as a source of linguistic data rather than as a complete work in itself. Comments pertaining to the relationship of language and literature include discussion of teaching methods, literary criticism, background information, and literary…
Descriptors: Classical Languages, Componential Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Patterns

Lantolf, James P. – Modern Language Journal, 1976
Reviews significant endeavors in the teaching of intonation, and outlines a specific technique of the instruction of suprasegmentals. (CLK)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Intonation, Language Instruction, Language Patterns

Plewes, S. Frank – 1975
This paper suggests methods for teaching the Russian verbs that govern what are loosely termed "objects" in oblique cases. The case government of such verbs is not necessarily an individual irregularity. Definite patterns emerge, both morphological and semantic, to facilitate grouping these verbs into classes. Russian verbs requiring genitive…
Descriptors: Classification, Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar, Language Instruction
Wigfield, Jack – 1975
This paper compares the tone systems of Vietnamese and English, with emphasis on the teaching of English as a second language. Rising, level, high, low, and falling tones are identified for English. Vietnamese has all of these except the last. While in Vietnamese, tones are predictable in the sense that tones and words go together, English tones…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Intonation
Halliday, M.A.K.; And Others – 1964
The relation of the linguistic sciences to language teaching and language learning is explored. Part 1 discusses linguistics, phonetics, and their place in the description of language. Relations between language and the people who use it are examined, as well as the place of comparison and translation in the acquisition of a second language. Part…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bibliographies, Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics
STOCKWELL, ROBERT P.; AND OTHERS – 1965
DESIGNED AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR PROFESSIONALS PREPARING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS, PLANNING COURSES, OR DEVELOPING CLASSROOM TECHNIQUES FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMS, A SERIES OF STUDIES HAS BEEN PREPARED THAT CONTRASTS, IN TWO VOLUMES FOR EACH OF THE FIVE MOST COMMONLY TAUGHT FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN THE UNITED STATES, THE SOUND AND GRAMMATICAL…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar
Harsh, Wayne – 1965
The approaches of traditional grammar, descriptive linguistics, and generative grammar are largely complementary rather than exclusive. Traditional grammar defines eight parts of speech according to meaning or function and concerns itself almost wholely with the written language. Descriptive linguistics postulates that English has a set of unique…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English Instruction, Form Classes (Languages)
Politzer, Robert L. – 1972
This book discusses the relevance of applied linguistics to foreign language teaching and supports the point of view that linguistics is relevant as the source of assumptions rather than as the source of conclusions. In foreign language teaching, the assumptions based on linguistics must ultimately be evaluated on their ability to explain the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure