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Lynch, Tony – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1998
This study investigated the differences in language patterns in classroom conversations between university students of English for academic purposes and two native speakers: the teacher and a native English-speaking student selected to provide English speech practice. Transcripts of role-play interactions in two groups (one assisted by the…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language)
Downes, William – 1998
This introduction to sociolinguistics surveys the various ways that language can be studied as a social phenomenon, examining known relationships between language variation and large-scale social factors and showing how this variation runs along "fault lines in social structure," such as divisions between social classes, the sexes, and different…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
Pickering, Michael – 1992
A case study investigated the emergence of language and language concepts in a bilingual child, a girl aged 16 months to 6 years, 7 months. Observations were made by the child's parents and relatives in the child's home where the mother spoke Finnish and the father English. The report summarizes developments in phonology, morphology, word-level…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Child Language, Concept Formation

Cernik, Jiri – 1992
The grammar is designed to be used as a reference for addressing structural problems in Czech. The guide is organized into 11 chapters. The first describes the pronunciation of written Czech and explains spelling conventions. Aspects of the language covered here include the alphabet, arrangement of words in the dictionary, vowels, diphthongs,…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Alphabets, Capitalization (Alphabetic)
Kim, Hye-Ryun – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1994
This study investigated how Korean adult learners of English at various levels of proficiency interpret English reflexives. The subjects consisted of 15 ninth-graders with 2.5 years of English instruction, 15 eleventh-graders with 4.5 years of instruction, 15 first-year college students with 6.5 years of instruction, and 15 graduate students who…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Okushi, Yoshiko – 1990
A study investigated whether sociolinguistic rules are taught as part of instruction in English as a Second Language in Japan. It was determined that of three types of institutions in which English is taught, the private language institutes offer far better language instruction than public schools or universities, and that some of the instructors…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Design, Elementary Secondary Education
Collins, James – 1983
Using a comparative and historical approach, this paper examines linguistic perspectives on minority education, specifically language-based explanations for the reading problems of working class minority group students. The paper first discusses the ways in which competence and performance theories of language treat the relation between language…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Communication, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences
Alvarez, Salvador – 1983
Conducted by doctoral students, the study analyzed 3-minute tapes of conversation between 16 Title VII first grade Mexican American students and teacher aides in the Weslaco Independent School District, Texas, to determine the percentage of standard vs. non-standard language, measure the percentage of code switching by aide, show the percentage of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Students, Code Switching (Language), Cognitive Ability
VanLehn, Kurt – 1983
A theory of how people learn certain procedural skills is presented. It is based on the idea that the teaching and learning that goes on in a classroom is like an ordinary conversation. The speaker (teacher) compresses a non-linear knowledge structure (the target procedure) into a linear sequence of utterances (lessons). The listener (student)…
Descriptors: Algebra, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Hadaway, Nancy L.; Cukor-Avila, Patricia – 1986
A study of code-switching in a group of 35 Spanish-English bilingual third-graders is reported. The students' diary journal entries and writing assignments based on previous classwork are examined. Retelling of stories previously told by the teacher and the journal entries helped identify the kind of language used by students, the code-switching…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)
Benmaman, Virginia; Schenck, Susan J. – 1986
This 3-year research project sought to determine whether language differences between Gullah-influenced and English speaking students in Charleston County (South Carolina) influenced test performance and subsequent interpretation of test results. A sample population of 503 educable mentally handicapped, learning disabled, and regular students…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Vago, Robert M. – CUNY Forum, 1986
An ongoing research project into the dissolution or attrition of native language structure under the influence of bilingualism analyzed certain paradigmatic changes in the first language of a Hungarian-Hebrew bilingual speaker. Data were collected over a 2-year period from an Israeli woman who was born in Hungary and immigrated to Israel at 6…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Discourse Analysis, Error Analysis (Language)

Hamalainen, Eila – 1977
This paper discusses subject-verb-complement (SVC) clauses and their renderings in English and Finnish. Comparisons are made on the level of surface structure and with regard to equivalence in the sense of one construction being an optimum translation of the other. The definition of congruence, i.e., formal similarity and equal number of…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages)
Major, Roy C. – 1977
This study is a detailed analysis of the phonological development of Sylvia, a bilingual child, in her acquisition of American English and Brazilian Portuguese from the age of 1 year, 7 months to 3 years, 8 months. The study is divided into four stages: ages 1.7 - 1.9; 1.9 - 2.1; 2.1 - 2.3; and 2.3 - 2.8. Up to the age of 1.9, the same…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Bilingualism, Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics
South, M. S. – 1975
Modern poetry can be used as instructional material in beginning foreign language courses to offer a change of pace from the regular instructional materials and an introduction to the literature in the target language. Students also take pride in understanding original literary products of the language being taught. Modern poetry proves to be more…
Descriptors: German, German Literature, Imagery, Instructional Materials