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Hellmich, Harold – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1973
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Language Instruction
DELANCEY, ROBERT W. – 1965
A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO SELECED ASPECTS OF THE LINGUISTICS ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH IS PRESENTED IN THIS MONOGRAPH. FOLLOWING A DEFINITION OF LANGUAGE AND AN EXPLANATION OF THE COMMUNICATION PROCESS, THE PEDAGOGICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE INADEQUACIES OF TRADITIONAL GRAMMAR ARE EXAMINED. THE CONSIDERATION OF STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS IN ENGLISH CENTERS ON PHONOLOGY…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grammar, Intonation, Linguistics
Download full textCampbell, Jeff H. – 1976
Recognition that students at Midwestern State University, Texas, lacked a basic level of linguistic skills prompted an inductive approach to the teaching of grammar, in which nonsense words were used to introduce concepts of English usage. Working in small groups, students arranged the nonsense words to form sentences which "sound[ed] like…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Class Activities, Educational Games, English Instruction
Dupuy-Engelhardt, Hiltraud; Philipp, Marthe – Deutsche Sprache, 1974
Foreign language instruction, particularly the learning of new vocabulary, could greatly benefit from the structural description of semantic fields. Examples are provided. (Text is in German.) (DS)
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), Instructional Improvement, Instructional Innovation, Language Instruction
Essen, Erika – Wirkendes Wort, 1972
Report of a conference of the editorial board with German teachers, December 1971, Dusseldorf, West Germany. (WB)
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning, German
Peer reviewedMoran, Eugene V. – English Education, 1972
Examines research dealing with methods of teaching punctuation that go as far back as 1900. Believes findings explain why English teachers are not in agreement on any one specific method of teaching this skill. (RB)
Descriptors: English Education, Language Acquisition, Language Arts, Methods Research
Hohmann, Heinz-Otto – Praxis des Neusprachlichen Unterrichts, 1970
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Dialogs (Literary), French, Language Fluency
Franke, Ludwig – Neusprachliche Mitteilungen, 1970
Revised version of an address presented at the Deutscher Neuphilologentag on April 2, 1970 in Munster, West Germany. (WB)
Descriptors: Charts, Determiners (Languages), Form Classes (Languages), French
Davila, Sonia I. – 1983
This paper provides an overview of recent developments in the science of linguistics, and considers their relevance to the teaching of Spanish in Puerto Rico. First, three significant trends are explained and summarized: (1) structuralism, which emphasizes phonetics, pattern, and distribution, and rejects meaning as a tool of analysis; (2)…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Native Language Instruction
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
Zimmerman, Howard Clinton – 1967
A study of the relative effectiveness of three approaches to teaching selected aspects of English grammar to 299 10th-grade students of average ability (17 class-size groups) was made in Lane County, Oregon. Five groups were taught using structural linguistics concepts; six groups employed traditional methods, materials, and approaches; and six…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English Instruction, Grammar, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedRandall, Geoff – English in Australia, 1972
Discusses what grammar is, what language is, recent studies in language research, and relates these to classroom teaching. (MB)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Descriptive Linguistics, English Instruction, 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
Horodowich, Peggy Maki – 1979
Since clauses are the largest functional components of a sentence, their analysis can increase attention to sentence structure and stylistic variation. Students can learn to distinguish main clause types by naming the verb forms used (transitive, intransitive, equational, and passive). Once students have mastered the recognition of main clauses,…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Language Styles, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedNey, 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
