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Peer reviewedGoodman, Kenneth S. – English Record, 1971
The goal of instruction in standard spoken usage should not be to modify the student's language behavior by rejecting his nonstandard dialect, but to work with him to expand his competencies on the base of his present linguistic competence. (JM)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, English (Second Language), English Instruction, Language Handicaps
Peer reviewedHoffman, Melvin J. – English Record, 1971
An exposition and refutation of two writers taken as representative of those accusing linguists who support the teaching of Standard English as a second language of covert racism. (JM)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, English (Second Language), English Instruction
Jakobovits, Leon A. – J Engl Second Lang, 1969
Argues for language tests based on a view of linguistic competence broad enough to recognize the importance of social-psychological factors in the use of language. Paper prepared for a conference on language testing at Idyllwild, California, November 7-8, 1968. (FWB)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Influences, Language Skills
Brown, T. Grant – Lang Learning, 1969
Reply to a paper entitled "Implications of Recent Psycholinguistic Developments for the Teaching of a Second Language, by Leon A. Jakobovits, which appeared in "Language Learning, volume 18, number 1 and 2, June 1968. (DS)
Descriptors: Interference (Language), Learning Theories, Linguistic Theory, Pattern Drills (Language)
Botel, Morton; Granowsky, Alvin – Elementary English, 1972
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Function Words, Kernel Sentences, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedSmith, William L.; Mason, George E. – Journal of Reading, 1972
Descriptors: Age Differences, Difficulty Level, High Interest Low Vocabulary Books, Language Experience Approach
Spolsky, Bernard – Linguistic Reporter, 1971
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingual Education, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Objectives
Peer reviewedFeldman, Carol F. – Language and Speech, 1971
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Difficulty Level
Hittleman, Daniel R. – Int Reading Assn Conf Proc Pt 1, 1968
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Instructional Improvement
Arapoff, Nancy – TESOL Quart, 1969
Advocates a method of teaching writing which leads students to discover the rules of written English so that they can then transform a string of grammatical sentences into a coherent discourse. Sample lessons included. Paper presented at the TESOL Convention, March 1969. (FWB)
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Higher Education
Peer reviewedSchneyer, J. Wesley – Reading Teacher, 1970
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedAbkarian, G. G. – Journal of Child Language, 1983
Three- and four-year-old children were tested in their comprehension of locative prepositions. Results showed that those prepositions characterized as positive were comprehended less well than their ostensibly negative counterparts, contrary to theoretical predictions. An explanatory hypothesis concerning children's developing spatial…
Descriptors: Child Language, Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition, Language Processing
Peer reviewedMassaro, Dominic W.; Hestand, Joy – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1983
First-, second-, and third-grade readers were asked to pick items that differed in terms of a rule-governed description of orthographic structure. Task performance improved with school experience. Reading ability was positively correlated with knowledge of orthographic structure for young readers. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Correlation, Forced Choice Technique, Graphemes, Orthographic Symbols
Peer reviewedPolitzer, Robert L.; And Others – Bilingual Review, 1983
The development, administration, and scoring of a communicative test and its validation with tests of linguistic and sociolinguistic competence in English and Spanish are reported. Correlation with measures of home language use and school achievement are also presented, and issues of test validation for bilingual programs are discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedStaczek, John J. – Bilingual Review, 1983
Spanish-English code switching in the context of Miami health care services is examined, focusing on the transactional role relationships that require Spanish language use. Examples are taken from printed sources and oral language. Semantic shift, vocabulary adaptation, syntactic code switching, and Spanish acquisition by non-Hispanics are…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Consumer Protection, English, Health Services
