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Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich – 1994
This study contributes to the elaboration of a sociocultural perspective on literacy by considering the role of gender in shaping students' participation in literacy activities in school. The project aims to illuminate the way in which gender expresses itself in and helps to shape the nature of children's literacy acquisition across different…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingual Teachers, Bilingualism
Payne, David, Ed. – Notes on Linguistics, 1994
This document contains the 1994 edition of a publication designed to share information in the field of linguistics that is of practical, theoretical, administrative, or general interest. Articles in these issues include: "Ethnography Vs. Questionnaire" (Thomas E. Murray); "Differences: A Diary Entry"--concerning structuralism…
Descriptors: African Languages, Applied Linguistics, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
Steffensen, Margaret S.; Cheng, Xiaoguang – 1996
A study investigated the effects of instruction in metadiscourse on composition students' writing skills. Subjects were students in two 100-level college composition classes. A Control Class (CC) was taught using a process approach, and the Experimental Class (EC) had direct teaching of metadiscourse. The CC students worked on the propositional…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
Riihela, Monika – 1996
The professional practices concerning children's questions in the welfare clinic, the day care center, the school and the library in Finland are discussed in this paper. Each institution's historical background and the implicit and explicit concepts of children affecting professional behavior are analyzed. The research data include legal and…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Case Studies, Child Development, Child Language
Venditti, Jennifer J., Ed. – Working Papers in Linguistics, 1994
The collection of papers on linguistic experiments includes: "Discourse Functions of Pitch Range in Spontaneous and Read Speech" (Gayle M. Ayers); "When Is a Syllable Not a Syllable?" (Mary E. Beckman); "The Relationship between Syntactic and Semantic Processes in Sentence Comprehension" (Julie E. Boland); "The Influence of Orthography and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Discourse Analysis
Dowty, David, Ed.; And Others – Working Papers in Linguistics, 1995
Papers in phonology, psycholinguistics, and syntax include: "Discriminating between Syntactic and Semantic Processing: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials" (Kim Ainsworth-Darnell); "The Syntactic Structure of Chinese Formal Focus" (Qian Gao); "Employing a Multimodal Logic in an Approach to German Pronoun Fronting"…
Descriptors: Bantu Languages, Chinese, Comparative Analysis, German
Eslamirasekh, Zohreh – 1993
This study compared patterns in the requests of native Persian-speakers (n=50) and native speakers of American English (n=52) under the same social constraints. Students were undergraduate students in their native countries. Data were gathered by controlled elicitation (open questionnaire) and coded for degree of directness. Results show the…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Cultural Studies
McClure, Erica – Pragmatics and Language Learning, 1992
A study investigated the syntactic properties and functions of English-Spanish code-switching in literary, political, and news magazines in Mexico. It is proposed that oral code-switching in Chicano communities and written code-switching in the Mexican press differ both syntactically and pragmatically, with the latter more syntactically…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
Coronel-Molina, Serafin M. – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1997
The discussion of corpus planning for the Southern Quechua language variety of Peru examines issues of graphization, standardization, modernization, and renovation of Quechua in the face of increasing domination by the Spanish language. The efforts of three major groups of linguists and other scholars working on language planning in Peru, and the…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Bilingual Education, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
Rausch, Anthony S. – 1996
This study investigated learning styles and learning strategies among Japanese university students whose majors are directly related to English. Data were gathered in a survey of 365 students in English literature, language, or linguistics courses at two universities. The survey included questions about study outside class time, study using…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, English Literature, English (Second Language)
Hamid, Rohani Abdul – 1994
Issues in the design of research to describe educational practice are examined, and arguments for and against particular methodologies are summarized. A single study is used for illustrative purposes; it explores the relationship between English taught as a second language in school and English language needs in the workplace. The study uses both…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Course Content, Data Collection, Educational Strategies
Warner, Rachel – 1992
A study of 23 secondary school students in year 11 at a British comprehensive school investigated students' feelings about English and Bengali, their native language, their language learning history, how they had developed English language skills in a predominantly Bengali-speaking community, how they had maintained and developed their Bengali,…
Descriptors: Bengali, Bilingualism, Case Studies, Classroom Observation Techniques
Liu, Dilin – 1994
In an effort to fill a perceived gap in research concerning the relationship between cultural knowledge and second language proficiency, a study was undertaken with foreign students of English as a Second Language (ESL). The subjects were 30 college juniors in a variety of disciplines taking an English world literature class. Subjects were…
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, Educational Strategies
Tong, Keith; And Others – Hongkong Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1991
A study investigated the content and predictive validity of Hong Kong's new Use of English Examination (UEE), introduced by the Hong Kong Examinations Authority in 1989. The study set out to discover whether the examination was reliable for determining students' language needs on entering higher education, and whether institutions' existing…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Content Validity, English (Second Language), Factor Analysis
Marcos, Kathleen M., Ed. – 1993
This bibliography is part of a series summarizing the activities carried out under Title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965. These research and development activities include: surveys of status, needs, and priorities; specialized research and studies; development of instructional and research materials; research in language teaching methods;…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Area Studies, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design
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