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Troubled Relations: Linguistic Theory and Language-Teaching
Sanders, Carol – Modern Languages, 1975
Reviews the relationship between linguistic theory and language teaching. The suggestion is made that a teaching approach should not be based completely on one theory, be it structuralist or generative. In selecting an approach, the teacher should draw selectively on various linguistic theories, on educational psychology, and on practical…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Educational Psychology, Language Instruction, Learning Processes
The Effect of a Language Versus a Dialogue Emphasis in Beginning Spanish Instruction and a Comparison of Structured Versus Unstructured Follow-Up. Final Report.
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Ott, C. Eric; And Others – 1977
The effects of a language versus a dialogue emphasis and a structured versus an unstructured follow-up in intensive language instruction were assessed using eighty-three students destined for missionary work in Spanish-speaking countries. A 2 X 2 analysis of variance design was employed, with students assigned to one of four treatments: language…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Intensive Language Courses, Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Teaching English as a Second Language: Perspectives and Practices. A Series of Six Texts. Background and Approaches: First of a Series.
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1978
This book is designed to assist those who work with non-English dominant students by providing resource information relevant to second language teaching and learning. The articles in the series encompass both theory and practical learning techniques in six general topics. The articles in the first text of the series, concerning background and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Policy, English (Second Language)
Teaching English as a Second Language: Perspectives and Practices. A Series of Six Texts. Speaking and Understanding: Second of a Series.
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1978
This book is designed to assist those who work with non-English dominant students by providing resource information relevant to second language teaching and learning. The articles in the series encompass both theory and practical learning techniques in six general topics. The articles in the second text of the series, concerning speaking and…
Descriptors: Applied Music, Audiolingual Skills, Bilingual Education, Communicative Competence (Languages)
La prise de conscience du systeme phonologique par de juenes enfants francophones en milieu scolaire (The Awareness of the Phonological System among Young French-Speaking Children in a School Environment). Acts of the Colloquium of the Swiss Interuniversity Commission for Applied Linguistics. CILA Bulletin, No. 26.
Redard, Francoise – 1976
This is a report of a study conducted by a group of teachers to discover the extent to which students in the first three years of school were aware of the phonetic system of their native language (French) with emphasis on the means they used to analyze it. In the first year, the children discovered phonetic oppositions by touching their lips and…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Child Language, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes
Needed Research in the Fields of Psycho- and Socio-Linguistics as They Relate to the Instruction of Minority Children in the Bilingual Education Programs of North American Schools.
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Viera, Silvia – 1976
This paper discusses the conflict occurring as a result of two languages and their corresponding cultural bases coming into contact in North America, particularly in the context of bilingual education. Difficulty exists in translating awareness of problems such as language interference, cultural shock, and lowered self-image into attitudinal…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Processes