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Process Writing and the Development of Grammatical Competence
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Artunduaga Cuéllar, Marco Tulio – HOW, 2013
This article presents the results of an action research study whose purpose was to apply alternatives for the development of grammatical competence in a group of third semester students of a Morphosyntax I course in an English language teaching undergraduate program at a Colombian public university. Given the fact that the teaching of grammar has…
Descriptors: Process Approach (Writing), Grammar, Action Research, Competency Based Education
Focus on the Verb: Practical Suggestions for a German Conversation Class.
Hatch, Elke J. – 1983
The use of discussion about students' vacations on the first day of a third-year college level conversational German class is analyzed. The discussion imitates a common conversational situation. Many students at this level tend to fall into use of the present tense, attempting few other tenses at first, and research shows that Germans consider…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
The Effects of Tense Continuity and Subject-Verb Agreement Errors on Communication.
Porton, Vicki M. – 1978
This study explored the dichotomy between global errors, that is, those violating rules of overall sentence structure, and local errors, that is, those violating rules within a particular constituent of a sentence, and the relationship of these to communication breakdown. The focus was tense continuity across clauses (TC) and subject-verb…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis
Cross Currents: Communication/Language/Cross-Cultural Skills. Volume 6, Number 2.
Gutow, Howard, Ed. – Cross Currents, 1979
This issue of "Cross Currents" includes the following articles: "An Experience with CLL" by Earl Stevick; "Accuracy vs. Fluency in the English Language Classroom" by Kenton Sutherland; "Predicate Markers: A New Look at the English Predicate System" by Phillip L. Knowles; "'Let Your TV do the Talking':…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Creative Thinking, Cultural Education, Drama
Linguistic Insights in Applied Linguistics. Collection d'"Etudes linguistiques," No. 14. Papers from the Neuchatel Colloquium in Applied Linguistics in collaboration with AIMAV, AILA, CILA, and the University of Neuchatel (2nd, May 25-26, 1973).
Corder, S. P., Ed.; Roulet, E., Ed. – 1974
Papers from the 1973 Neuchatel Colloquium in Applied Linguistics are presented. Contents are as follows: "Karttunen's Types of Implication in English and German: A Contrastive Study," W. Abraham; "The Relevance of Generative Semantics for Language Teaching," R. Dirven; "'Be' plus 'ing' Revisited," H. Adamczeski; "The So-Called Deep Structures and…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis
SCDC Spanish Curricula Units. Spanish SL Strand, Unit 1, Grade One, Teacher's Guide--Multi-Ethnic Edition.
Spanish Curricula Development Center, Miami Beach, FL. – 1974
Basic theme of this teacher's guide is the child in the classroom. Learning and assessment activities are designed to provide the English-dominant child with structures and vocabulary for effective communication in a bilingual environment. Activities help the child build concepts in a new language through formal and informal language experiences…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Bilingual Education, Classroom Environment, Color