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BOSSON, JAMES E. – 1964
THIS BOOK HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO SERVE AS AN INTRODUCTORY TEXTBOOK FOR THE STUDENT WHO WISHES A READING KNOWLEDGE OF MODERN MONGOLIAN. UPON COMPLETION OF THIS TEXT THE STUDENT SHOULD BE ABLE TO READ CURRENT PUBLICATIONS WITH THE AID OF A DICTIONARY. A BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF LINGUISTIC TERMINOLOGY ON THE PART OF THE STUDENT IS USEFUL BUT NOT ESSENTIAL.…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context, Cyrillic Alphabet, Ethnic Origins
Nebraska Univ., Lincoln. Curriculum Development Center. – 1965
THE LITERATURE PROGRAM OF THE NEBRASKA ENGLISH CURRICULUM FOR GRADE EIGHT IS CONCERNED WITH THE THEME OF THE HERO--HIS CHARACTERISTICS AND HOW THEY HAVE UNDERGONE CHANGE IN THE HISTORY OF WESTERN LITERATURE, AS SEEN IN VARIOUS LITERARY GENRES. THE STUDY OF HEROISM IS DIVIDED INTO THE FOLLOWING UNITS--(1) "THE MAKING OF HEROES," (2)…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, English Curriculum, English Instruction, Epics
Nebraska Univ., Lincoln. Curriculum Development Center. – 1965
THE FIRST UNIT OF THE STUDENT PACKET FOR GRADE NINE OF THE NEBRASKA ENGLISH CURRICULUM IS A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIPS WHICH EXIST BETWEEN AUTHOR AND AUDIENCE, AND AN EXAMINATION OF THE EPIGRAM, LIMERICK, PARABLE, FABLE, AND ODE. WITH THIS BACKGROUND, STUDENTS CONSIDER "ON AVARICE" AND "ANIMAL FARM" AS EXAMPLES OF FORMAL AND…
Descriptors: Comedy, Curriculum Guides, Dialects, Drama
Euclid English Demonstration Center, OH.
THIS GUIDE FOR GRADES 7, 8, AND 9 BEGINS WITH A COLLECTION OF PAPERS EXPLAINING THE LINGUISTIC APPROACH TO THE TEACHING OF LANGUAGE--(1) "THE CLASSROOM TEACHER AND LINGUISTIC ECLECTICISM" BY A. HOOD ROBERTS, (2) "SOME NOTES ON LINGUISTICS AND THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH" BY JOSEPH H. FRIEND, (3) "A UNIT ON DIALECTS" BY…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects
Hamel, Patricia, Ed.; Schaefer, Ronald, Ed. – 1980
These papers deal with a variety of topics bearing on modality in a variety of languages and language families. While all languages have ways of expressing modality, that is, such notions as possibility, necessity, and contingency, this phenomenon has been the object of little systematic linguistic analysis. These papers are presented with the…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Hebrew, Higher Education
Patterson, Jean Scarborough – 1979
The Spanish syntax of 36 English-Spanish bilingual students at the University of Texas at El Paso was examined to determine the variety and extent of English influence on Spanish syntax and to correlate the relative extent of this influence with selected extra-linguistic factors. The most significant finding was that the group of students having…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
MacMullin, M. Roderick – 1980
The reading responses of 80 second grade students to words in context and words in isolation were analyzed. The children were tested individually with four oral reading selections (kindergarten through third grade levels), a set of comprehension questions, and a word list. The children recognized fewer words in isolation than in context. The…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Error Patterns, Grade 2
Zimmer, John W. – 1978
In an analysis of a processing activities model of memory applied to connected discourse, 206 college students assigned to eight conditions in two studies evidenced significantly greater recall when provided with semantic level tasks than either surface feature analysis or reading control (intentional and incidental) conditions. Additionally,…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Connected Discourse, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Larkin, Greg; Shook, Ron – 1978
An experiment on relative clause formation involving Cantonese students who were learning English was conducted. The study sought to determine whether sentence combining exercises would help Chinese students construct long relative clauses instead of the short relative clauses that exist in their first language. For the experimental group each…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language)
Ryan, Ellen Bouchard; Willows, Dale M. – 1979
To assess the extent to which syntactic and semantic information guides the reading performance of skilled and less-skilled readers in the intermediate grades, a study was conducted involving 96 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students. The students were matched both within and across grade level on nonverbal IQ and within each grade level on age.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Elementary Education
Redden, James E., Ed. – 1976
The papers in this volume represent revised versions of presentations made at the First Workshop on Yuman Languages held at the University of California, San Diego, June 17-21, 1975. The focus was on the area of syntax, where the least amount of published information had previously been available. Papers presented were: "Syntactic Diversity…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Case (Grammar), Componential Analysis, Dialect Studies
Hawkinson, Bruce – 1976
One in a series of ten mini-manuals on office communication proofreading, this booklet for business and office students provides instruction in the use of plurals and possessives. Included are terminal and specific objectives, grammar rules and related information, and tasks for practice. A test over the information presented concludes the manual.…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Business Education, Business English, Case (Grammar)
Stauble, Ann-Marie E. – 1977
The language development processes of decreolization and second language acquisition are compared. The decreolization of Guyanese creole negation and the acquisition of the English negative by an adult Spanish speaker are described. Each process is seen as a series of internal changes on a continuum of developmental stages which bring speakers…
Descriptors: Creoles, Culture Contact, English (Second Language), Language Research
MELLON, JOHN C. – 1967
THIS STUDY REPORTS AN EXPERIMENT ON THE HYPOTHESIS THAT GRAMMAR-RELATED SENTENCE-COMBINING PRACTICE WILL MEANINGFULLY ENHANCE THE NORMAL GROWTH OF SYNTACTIC FLUENCY. TRADITIONAL STUDIES ON ERROR THERAPY AND SENTENCE STRUCTURE ARE REVIEWED, AND DESIGN AND RATIONALE ARE INFERRED FROM THE RESEARCH OF BATEMAN AND ZIDONIS. RULE LEARNING, PATTERN…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English Instruction, Grade 7, Kernel Sentences
KAY, MARTIN – 1967
A LINGUISTIC MODEL OF HUMAN LANGUAGE MUST ACCOUNT FOR BOTH "SENTENCES" AND "MEANINGS" AS WELL AS EXPLAIN HOW SPEAKERS ARE ABLE TO TRANSLATE SENTENCES INTO MEANINGS AND VICE VERSA. THE AUTHOR DOUBTS THAT THE RULES OF A TRANSFORMATIONAL GENERATIVE GRAMMAR WILL BE ABLE TO CONSTRUCT A TRANSDUCER CAPABLE OF TRANSLATING MEANINGS INTO…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Context Free Grammar, Discourse Analysis, Grammar
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