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Direct linkLin, Chiu-Lan Nina – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2009
The utmost goal of foreign language instruction is aimed at helping the learner master the language. At the same time the learner shall become equipped with linguistic, pragmatic and social-linguistic competence. This study was done to explore if review activities in EFL classes should be mandatory for learners to learn the new knowledge. One…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Linguistic Competence, English (Second Language)
Silvestre, Nuria; Ramspott, Anna; Pareto, Irenka D. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2007
The starting point for this study is the importance of linguistic competence in deaf students as part of their process of socialization and the formation of their self-concept. With the 56 deaf students who participated in the research, we consider the following sociodemographic variables: age, sex and degree of hearing loss, and the educational…
Descriptors: Interviews, Deafness, Self Concept, Socialization
Hollmann, Raymond – 1968
This paper discusses the growth of the field of psycholinguistics, what its practitioners have discovered concerning first language acquisition and the implications of these new theories and discoveries for the teaching of English. The author contends that in (English) language instruction, teachers have failed to consider what the child already…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Performance, Psycholinguistics
Jones, Susan; Myhill, Debra – Canadian Journal of Education, 2007
Set in the context of international concerns about boys' achievements in writing, this article presents research that explores gender differences or similarities in linguistic competence in writing. Drawing on the results of a large-scale analysis of the linguistic characteristics of secondary-aged writers, we outline gender difference in the…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Gender Differences, Writing (Composition), Males
Mota, Marisol – Online Submission, 2008
This study examines Linguistic Competence in English Language (LCE) as a general indicator of Communicative Competence. A test and a questionnaire were administered to 1838 undergraduate freshmen from five major institutes of higher education in Aguascalientes, Mexico. The results of the test are analysed in their association with main features of…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, English (Second Language), College Freshmen, Higher Education
Ouellette, Gene P.; Senechal, Monique – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2008
Children's early spelling attempts (invented spellings) and underlying component skills were evaluated in a sample (N = 115) of 5-year-old children. Letter-sound knowledge and phoneme awareness were shown to be important predictors of invented spelling performance in this age group. The results also showed associations between invented spelling…
Descriptors: Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Invented Spelling, Oral Language, Phonemic Awareness
Amaral, Luiz; Meurers, Detmar – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2008
Student models for Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) have largely focused on the acquisition of grammatical structures. In this paper, we motivate a broader perspective of student models for ICALL that incorporates insights from current research on second language acquisition and language testing. We argue for a student model…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Language Tests
Porter, Jane E. – Elementary English, 1972
Report on a panel of educators discussing the needs of students in the area of writing mechanics. (GB)
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Instructional Improvement, Linguistic Competence, Writing (Composition)
Peer reviewedMoffitt, Alan R. – Child Development, 1971
Infants were able to discriminate between bah" and gah" syllables, indicating that linguistic-perceptual capacities are present during early life. (WY)
Descriptors: Consonants, Cues, Infants, Linguistic Competence
Palmer, William S. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1971
By utilizing basic sentences to which free modifiers can be added to suit individual student's viewpoints, the teaching of language skills can be improved and made more pleasant. (RA)
Descriptors: Language Skills, Linguistic Competence, Literacy Education, Writing Skills
Serage, Marilyn Mayer – Libr Quart, 1970
The urgency of solving reading problems is stressed by the correlation of reading disability with general academic failure. (NH)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Linguistic Competence, Minority Groups, Reading Ability
Peer reviewedSchwartz, Richard G. – Child Development, 1980
The relationship between children's concepts of life and their judgments and revisions of sentences with violations of animacy restrictions was examined. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Linguistic Competence, Perception, Sentences
Peer reviewedBacharach, Verne R.; Luszcz, Mary A. – Child Development, 1979
Investigates the effects of implicit linguistic information on the conversational responses of preschool children. Following a conversation in which the experimenter's remarks were intended to implicitly focus a child's attention on either an action or an object portrayed in a picture, subjects were asked to describe the picture. (JMB)
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Verbal Communication
Peer reviewedRosenthal, Doreen A. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1979
Among 128 girls attending a private day school in Australia, it was found that changes in semantic aspects of language which occur at the formal operational stage appear to be related to whether a child is classified at the formal operational level on a pendulum problem. (RH)
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Linguistic Competence, Research, Semantics
Xie, Fang; Jiang, Xue-mei – Online Submission, 2007
This paper makes a study of error analysis and its implementation in the EFL (English as Foreign Language) classroom teaching. It starts by giving a systematic review of the concepts and theories concerning EA (Error Analysis), the various reasons causing errors are comprehensively explored. The author proposes that teachers should employ…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Error Correction, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
