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Download full textDeStefano, Johanna S. – 1977
Sex-related language stereotypes and sex-related differences in language usage are examined in this paper, and some recent research findings that illuminate them are reported. The following topics are among those discussed: seemingly universal characterizations of women's speech as gossip, nagging, or chatting, partially explained by most…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes, Language Research
Hoar, Nancy – 1978
The middle childhood years are a period of refinement of the semantics and syntax acquired in the early years, of substantial metalinguistic development, and of subtle changes in actual processing strategies. In a study undertaken to determine how these three factors interact, children aged 6 to 11 were asked to produce and recognize paraphrases.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition
PDF pending restorationSchachter, Jacquelyn; Rutherford, William – 1979
Data delimited by the phonology-to-semantics framework of mainstream linguistics are inadequate to account for the subtle influences of first language (L1) upon second language (L2). Unique errors for which there is no L1 correlate are found in samples of written English produced by Japanese and Chinese second language learners. This is due to a…
Descriptors: Chinese, Code Switching (Language), Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
Mitchell, Douglas; Edmundson, Herbert P., Jr. – 1979
Six units are presented for the study of applied Latin linguistics, in a course designed for elementary and secondary school teachers. The units cover the following topics: (1) notes on structural linguistics, the phoneme, Latin phonemes, and phonemic transcriptions; (2) the morpheme, identification of morphemes, morphs, allomorphs, and Latin…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Curriculum Guides, Form Classes (Languages), Inservice Teacher Education
Fathman, Ann – 1979
The results from three studies using data provided by the SLOPE Test and oral interviews are reported. The studies include: (1) a comparison of rank orders obtained over a period of time; (2) a comparison of rank orders obtained in instrument-elicited and spontaneous speech; and (3) a comparison of results obtained using two methods of analysis,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Language Acquisition
Green, G. M.; And Others – 1980
This report presents the text analysis of "Babar Loses His Crown," a story for beginning readers. (The techniques used in arriving at the analysis are presented in a Reading Center Technical Report, Number 168, "Problems and Techniques of Text Analysis.") Tables are given for a statistical lexical analysis and for a syntactic…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Illustrations
Pradl, Gordon M. – 1979
This booklet is one of a series of teacher-written curriculum publications launched by the Bay Area Writing Project, each focusing on a different aspect of the teaching of composition. The basic principles of literary cohesion (the way a text hangs together) are discussed and exercises are suggested to help students increase their sensitivity to…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Language Fluency
CHAO, YUEN REN – 1965
THE AUTHOR OF THIS GRAMMAR STATES THAT THIS IS A "DISCUSSION BOOK" AND NOT AN INSTRUCTION BOOK FOR LEARNING CHINESE. HIS ANALYSIS OF CHINESE GRAMMAR IS BASED ON CURRENT LINGUISTIC METHODS AND ASSUMES THE READER HAS SOME KNOWLEDGE OF LINGUISTICS. THIS BOOK CONSTITUTES A REFERENCE WORK FOR LINGUISTS AND STUDENTS OF THE CHINESE LANGUAGE. MAJOR…
Descriptors: Chinese, Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
ABDULLA, JAMAL JALAL; MCCARUS, ERNEST N. – 1967
THIS BEGINNING COURSE, DESIGNED FOR THE STUDENT WITH SOME KNOWLEDGE OF LINGUISTICS, FOLLOWS THE AUDIOLINGUAL APPROACH IN TEACHING THE PHONOLOGY, BASIC STRUCTURE, AND VOCABULARY OF THE EDUCATED KURDISH DIALECT OF SULAIMANIA, IRAQ. THE CULTURAL CONTENT OF THE MATERIAL PROVIDES THE STUDENT WITH A GENERAL BACKGROUND OF SULAIMANIAN CULTURE. PART I,…
Descriptors: Arabic, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Background, Dialects
GLADNEY, FRANK Y. – 1966
TRADITIONALLY OR OTHERWISE NONLINGUISTICALLY ORIENTED LANGUAGE TEACHERS WILL FIND IN THE NEW GENERATIVE-TRANSFORMATION GRAMMAR A REFUTATION OF MANY OF THE CURRENTLY ACCEPTED LINGUISTIC (SPECIFICALLY STRUCTURALIST) TEACHINGS AND A CONFIRMATION OF SOME TRADITIONAL IDEAS ABOUT LANGUAGE LEARNING. FOR INSTANCE, THE TRADITIONAL SPELLING OF ENGLISH (ALSO…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Audiolingual Skills, Language Instruction, Learning Theories
ROGERS, JOHN R.; AND OTHERS – 1965
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR THE CLASSROOM TEACHER OF READING ARE REPORTED BY PARTICIPANTS OF AN INSTITUTE ON THE APPLICATION OF LINGUISTICS TO SPELLING AND READING INSTRUCTION. CHAPTER 1, "PHONEMICS AND ORTHOGRAPHY IN READING INSTRUCTION," TRACES SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIPS AMONG PHONEMICS, PHONETICS, PHONICS, ORTHOGRAPHY, AND READING INSTRUCTION.…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Dialects, Grammar, Graphemes
Prinz, Philip M.; Prinz, Elisabeth A. – 1979
A study was conducted of the language development of a hearing child whose mother was deaf and communicated only in sign and whose father was hearing and communicated in both sign and oral language. Results showed similarities in development between the two modalities as well as similarity between development in two separate modalities and two…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)
Hopkins, Carol J. – 1976
This study investigates oral language characteristics of 100 first-grade children to determine the relationship between selected measures of oral language and reading achievement at the end of first grade. Using the Stanford Achievement Test, Reading, the study shows statistically significant, but low, correlations existing between the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Grade 1, Language Acquisition, Language Skills
Pedersen, Elray L. – 1978
A total of 113 seventh grade students participated in a study to test the effectiveness of sentence combining practice as a means to significantly improve syntactic and semantic fluency in student writing. Methods included pretest, posttest, and delayed posttest t-unit analyses of syntactic fluency, and four pretest and posttest analyses of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Grade 7, Language Acquisition
Gaies, Stephen J. – 1979
In recent years, T-unit analysis has been applied in second language research to characterize the syntactic nature of linguistic input and to assess the syntactic maturity of the learners' written production. This measure has been seen to provide an objective and reliable method of determining the overall complexity of language samples. However,…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Styles
