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Hockett, M. A. – 2002
Written for the seventh- and eighth-grade levels, this workbook gives students practice in using context clues and reading comprehension to apply punctuation rules, as well as in carefully reading and following directions. Noting that the activities are based on the idea that punctuation is necessary to make written communication clear, the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Context Clues, Junior High Schools, Learning Activities
Soles, Derek – Online Submission, 2006
Research suggests that basic writers are willing to edit but reluctant to revise their writing. In other words, they make surface-level changes to grammar, spelling, and punctuation but tend not to re-conceive content, structure, style, and cohesion. This paper argues that we need more instructional strategies that will help students understand…
Descriptors: Writing Research, Writing Teachers, Revision (Written Composition), Writing Skills
Gao, Carl Zhonggang – 1997
This discussion of English participles is intended to aid teachers of English as a second language in both understanding and teaching their use. The forms, functions (as verbs and adjectives), and meanings of participles are first outlined, and an approach for presenting this information to students is detailed. It begins with establishing a…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages)
Maynard, Senko K. – 1998
This handbook offers a detailed description of the structure and rhetorical effects observed in various genres of Japanese discourse. Drawing on Japanese "bunshooron" and incorporating results of Western discourse studies, the book covers principles of overall rhetorical organization, including"ki-shoo-ten-ketsu," topic structure, "danraku," and…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Japanese, Language Styles
Haussamen, Brock – 2003
Designed to be a resource for the myriad K-12 teachers who wonder what to do about grammar--how to teach it, how to apply it, how to learn what they themselves were never taught---this book offers an informal, hands-on approach to grammar in the classroom. The book presents teachers with ways to negotiate the often conflicting goals of testing,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar, Grammatical Acceptability
Ediger, Marlow – 1999
Understanding the structure of the English language can assist learners in getting the feeling for what comes next sequentially in oral or silent reading. Noting that the structure of knowledge movement during the 1960s-1970s emphasized the selection of what is relevant and important to teach and that pupils learn ideas inductively, this paper…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English, Higher Education, Induction
Kamiyama, Tamie – Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 1974
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, November 1971, Chicago, Illinois. (DD)
Descriptors: Grammar, Japanese, Language Ability, Language Instruction
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Fodor, Janet Dean – Journal of Linguistics, 1974
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English
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Schmerling, Susan F. – Language, 1974
Paper presented at the 1972 Summer Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chapel Hill, N.C. (DD)
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), Intonation, Linguistic Theory, Phonology
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Seligson, Gerda; Knudsvig, Glenn – Classical Outlook, 1974
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Patterns, Latin
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Droste, F. G. – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Function Words, Kernel Sentences, Language Universals
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Wieman, Earl – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1973
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Language Instruction, Language Usage
Hopster, Norbert – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1973
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Form Classes (Languages), German, Language Instruction
Helbig, Gerhard – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1973
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Form Classes (Languages), German, Grammar
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Huddleston, Rodney – Journal of Linguistics, 1973
Discusses formalized systems for representing grammatical structure. (DD)
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), Generative Grammar, Morphology (Languages), Morphophonemics
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