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Pack, Alice C., Ed. – 1971
This issue contains the following articles: "A Portfolio Program for Teaching English Composition," by Charles J. Fox and Robert Tippetts: "TESL Curriculum: The Foundation Is What Counts," by William D. Conway: "English Oral Language," by Allan D. Patterson: "Using a Telephone Directory to Teach English as a Second Language," by Jason B. Alter;…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Diagrams, Educational Strategies, English (Second Language)
Price, James D. – 1971
This first part of a four-part report of research on the development of a computerized, phrase-structure grammar of modern Hebrew presents evidence to demonstrate the need for material to train teachers of Semitic languagues in the theory of grammar. It then provides a discussion of the research already done on the application of computational…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs, Deep Structure
Defense Language Inst., Washington, DC. – 1971
The third of a six-volume series in and 18-week intensive language training course prepared by the Defense Language Institute contains classroom materials for 10 units of instruction. The course, consisting of 60 lessons and accompanying tape recordings together with an "Introduction to Thai Script" and a -Glossary," is designed to train native…
Descriptors: Advanced Programs, Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Basic Skills

Defense Language Inst., Washington, DC. – 1971
The second of a six-volume series in an 18-week intensive language training course prepared by the Defense Language Institute contains classroom materials for 10 units of instruction. The course, consisting of 60 lessons and accompanying tape recordings together with an "Introduction to Thai Script" and a -Glossary," is designed to train native…
Descriptors: Advanced Programs, Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Basic Skills

Defense Language Inst., Washington, DC. – 1971
The first of a six-volume series in an 18-week intensive language training course prepared by the Defense Language Institute contains classroom materials for 10 units of instruction. The course, consisting of 60 lessons and accompanying tape recordings together with an "Introduction to Thai Script" and a "Glossary," is designed to train native…
Descriptors: Advanced Programs, Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Basic Skills
George, H. V. – 1972
This book presents a three-part discussion of the causes and prevention of errors in foreign language learning with particular reference to English as a second language. The first part provides a survey of error analysis, defining what is meant by the term "error" and establishing a model of error production. Other terms explained in this section…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Information Processing
Wilson, Lois Irene – 1972
This paper presents a technique for teaching reading to foreign language students based on the importance of structural meaning in reading processes. Students are expected to learn particular language patterns for recognition only and are not expected to produce them. Such a procedure acknowledges certain differences between written and spoken…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English (Second Language), Function Words, Grammar
Dodge, James W., Ed. – 1972
The Report of the First Working Committee of the 1972 Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages focuses on the interrelationship of culture and language. A discussion on teaching another culture and on sociocultural aspects of foreign-language study comprises the first major section of the "Report." The second part presents short…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Cultural Interrelationships, French, German
Barker, Linda – 1976
This paper reports an investigation into the transitional dialect spoken by learners in the process of learning a second language. Theories concerning the psychology of second language learning which have been hypothesized by a small number of people in the field are discussed. These theories were first reported on from Scotland and England and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Dialect Studies, English (Second Language), Interlanguage
Gerken, Kathryn Clark; Deichmann, John W. – 1976
This study investigated the relationship of dialect and race of five and six-year old boys to a listener's ability to report the oral response of boys to ten vocabulary items from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC). A group of 20 black and 20 white college students viewed videotapes of eight first grade boys who represented four…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Black Dialects, College Students, Communication Problems
Levine, Madlyn A.; Hanes, Michael L. – 1976
This study investigated the relationship between dialect usage and performance on four language tasks designed to reflect features developmental in nature: articulation, grammatical closure, auditory discrimination, and sentence comprehension. Predictor and criterion language tasks were administered to 90 kindergarten, first-, and second-grade…
Descriptors: Blacks, Comprehension, Dialect Studies, Elementary Education
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – 1976
This collection of twenty-six papers is the fourth resulting from the Polish-English Contrastive Project. The overall purpose of the project is to prepare a Polish-English contrastive grammar and to develop pedagogical materials. The basic model used for research is the transformational generative one. Among the papers on phonology, topics such as…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)
Avery, Peter; And Others – TESL Talk, 1987
The sound system of English is described in all its complexity, from the relationship between spelling and pronunciation to the rules of connected speech, focusing on the methods and rationale of teaching pronunciation of English, particularly to English as a second language learners. (CB)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Consonants, Distinctive Features (Language), English (Second Language)

Blum-Kulka, Shoshana; Levenston, Edward A. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1987
A study of the interlanguage pragmatics of learners of Hebrew and English (L2s) focuses on pragmatic indicators used in requests and apologies (situations in Appendix). Deviations from native-speaker norms in the speech of non-native speakers are discussed. Results suggest L2s' misuse of pragmatic indicators can have serious interactional…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
Backhouse, A. E. – 1993
This guide provides an overview of the salient features of the Japanese language from the perspective of the beginning-level English-speaking learner. Chapters address these topics: the Japanese language and its historic and cultural setting; phonology (sounds and syllables, word accentuation; loanwords; connected speech); writing (scripts,…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Discourse Analysis, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar