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Kamwangamalu, Nkonko M. – 1986
A review of recent studies addressed the functional uses of code mixing across cultures. Expressions of code mixing (CM) are not random; in fact, a number of functions of code mixing can easily be delineated, for example, the concept of "modernization.""Modernization" is viewed with respect to how bilingual code mixers perceive…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Cross Cultural Studies, Developing Nations
Lindeberg, Ann-Charlotte – 1984
A study to find patterns of cohesion and rhetorical structure that distinguish good from weak English essay writing is described. The corpus consisted of ten Swedish college essays written as part of the final exam in a first-year English course. Methodological problems encountered included the delimitation of units for the analysis of cohesive…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), College Students, Comparative Analysis
Massamba, David P. B. – 1985
Although the development of Kiswahili in Tanzania has had a number of stumbling blocks, it is slowly developing into a language of modern technology. Individual institutions have contributed greatly to its spread and promotion. More books are now published in Kiswahili than ever before, and scientific and technical terminology has been developed.…
Descriptors: African Languages, Change Strategies, Diachronic Linguistics, Educational Change
Download full textRead, John; Nation, Paul – 1986
A review of the literature on a variety of issues related to testing vocabulary knowledge in a second language addresses these topics: problems in estimating vocabulary size, including the related questions of what constitutes a word, how a sample should be selected, and what are the criteria for knowing a word; sampling the basic and specialized…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Check Lists, Classification, Comparative Analysis
Shearer, Arleen P. – 1979
Second grade good readers (N=46) and fourth grade good and poor readers (N=46; N=48) were subjects in a study that examined linguistic cue usage by good and poor readers in a Southern metropolitan area. A secondary purpose was to compare the standard and phoneme cloze procedures with oral miscue analysis. The subjects were identified as good or…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Age Differences, Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis
Belanger, J. F. – 1986
A study examined whether patterns exist in the kinds and amounts of writing errors students make and whether teachers follow any sort of pattern in correcting these errors. Sixty compositions, gathered from a twelfth grade class taught by one teacher, were analyzed using the "McGraw-Hill Handbook of English." Student written errors were…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Diction, English Instruction, Error Analysis (Language)
National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL. – 1988
Contributed by English teachers across the United States, the activities contained in this booklet are intended to promote the effective teaching of English and the language arts. Teaching strategies offered in the first section of the booklet are designed to stimulate language exploration with such activities as designing and carrying out…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education
Epes, Mary T. – 1983
A study tested the hypothesis that spoken language has a strong direct influence on the encoding process, and that speakers of nonstandard dialects have a different set of problems with the written language and make identifiably different errors than do speakers of standard dialect. The subjects, 13 standard and 13 nonstandard dialect speakers…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Cognitive Processes, Error Analysis (Language)
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. – 1983
This Manitoba (Canada) integrated language arts curriculum guide for grades 9 through 11 emphasizes the elements of the language process. At grade 9, the instructional emphasis is on the communication context--content, vehicle, and situation. At grade 10, the instructional emphasis is on audience and purpose, while the emphasis at grade 11 shifts…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, English Curriculum, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
Portland Public Schools, OR. Dept. of Research, Evaluation, and Testing. – 1987
This report contains Portland Achievement Levels Tests results for 61 elementary schools, 18 middle schools, and one special program school in the Portland School District for the 1986-87 school year. Twelve different grade-level configurations are represented, from pre-kindergarten to grade 12. Tests are designed to be administered in accordance…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Attendance
Sandefur, John R. – 1986
A study of North Australia's Kriol language situation identifies the language, its speakers, its functions, and the sociopolitical factors in its emergence as an autonomous language. The first chapter reviews the development of the linguistic field concerning pidgins and creoles, looking especially at the concepts developed to explain the rise and…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Bilingualism, Creoles, Descriptive Linguistics
Ramirez, Arnulfo G. – 1979
Results of 11 investigations of various problems facing Mexican American and other linguistic minority children in the classroom are summarized. Conducted between 1972 and 1978, the studies are divided into studies dealing with teacher attitudes toward speech variation, elementary and secondary school pupil attitudes toward speech variation and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Students, Code Switching (Language), Elementary School Students
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1982
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 27 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the vocalization of /L/ in Philadelphia; (2) a second grade program to isolate and apply knowledge of vowel sounds in word identification; (3) phoneme and…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Child Language, Doctoral Dissertations, Early Childhood Education
Perkins, John – 1977
Evidence exists that, in the past, phonetic variants functioned as sociolinguistic variables, just as they do today, at least in societies with comparable stratificational patterns. This paper presents the significant details of the sociolinguistic environment within which the beginnings of the Great English Vowel Shift were embedded. An attempt…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Distinctive Features (Language), English
Butler-Wall, Brita – 1975
Videotape is much like audio tape in that it is magnetic tape on which a signal is electronically recorded, but it carries both an audio and a video signal. Video equipment demands a rather large initial expense but tape is relatively inexpensive. The magnifying, dynamic and synthesizing properties of this medium lend themselves to meeting some…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness
