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Crews, Ruthellen – 1968
This study compared a grammar program using a linguistic approach with one using a traditional approach to determine how each affects children's ability (1) to construct sentences which have variety in structure, and (2) to comprehend silent reading. Five experimental and five control classes of fourth-grade children were randomly selected from…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Grade 4
Enkvist, Nils Erik – 1974
This paper argues that context is an important factor to be considered in linguistic analysis. Context is defined as the aggregate of linguistic, situational, social and cultural variables that surround linguistic units such as texts, discourses, utterances, words, morphemes, phonemes, sounds, and distinctive features. A "textual…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis, Language Instruction
Center for Applied Linguistics, Arlington, VA. – 1978
This guide is intended to familiarize Americans with the basic structure of Hmong sentences and with words or phrases that may be useful with Hmong refugees. Hmong is represented in the Romanized Popular Alphabet. Following a general discussion of pronunciation and tone in Hmong, the structure of basic, compound, and complex sentences is…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Alphabets, Grammar, Indochinese

Brause, Rita S. – 1977
The hypothesized ability of adult native speakers to understand linguistic ambiguity was tested. An approach developed to determine linguistic competence tested the ability of 90 participants in individual interviews to interpret sentences having the potential for multiple interpretations. The hypothesis was not supported by the data. A hierarchy…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Age Differences, Ambiguity
Ulijn, Jan – 1977
Two questions arise from attempts to develop reading comprehension in scientific French: (1) should the concentration be mainly on vocabulary, or on grammar as well, and if so, what aspect of grammar; and (2) should the students' native language be taken into account, and if so, in what way: by translating, or through a systematic comparison of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Dutch
Tedeschi, Philip J. – 1975
Thirty informants were presented with sets of clauses punctuated as in the pattern "S1. If S2. S3" and asked which clause, S1 or S3, the "if" clause modified. Independently, several linguists judged the sentences "S1, if S2" and "S2, if S3" acceptable. Missing intonational clues or improper punctuation,…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Expressive Language
Informationszentrum fuer Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg (West Germany). – 1975
This annotated bibliography on the teaching of modern foreign languages was prepared by the West German documentation center dealing with foreign language research. The center has an information dissemination service which closely resembles the Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics of the ERIC system (ERIC/CLL). This bibliography, published…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Applied Linguistics, Audiovisual Aids
Informationszentrum fuer Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg (West Germany). – 1975
This annotated bibliography on the teaching of modern foreign languages was prepared by the West German documentation center dealing with foreign language research. The center has an information dissemination service which closely resembles the Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics of the ERIC system (ERIC/CLL). This bibliography, published…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Applied Linguistics, Audiovisual Aids
Informationszentrum fuer Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg (West Germany). – 1975
This annotated bibliography on the teaching of modern foreign languages was prepared by the West German documentation center dealing with foreign language research. The center has an information dissemination service which closely resembles the Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics of the ERIC system (ERIC/CLL). This bibliography, published…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Applied Linguistics, Audiovisual Aids
Informationszentrum fuer Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg (West Germany). – 1974
This annotated bibliography on the teaching of modern foreign languages was prepared by the West German documentation center dealing with foreign language research. The center has an information dissemination service which closely resembles the Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics of the ERIC system (ERIC/CLL). This bibliography, published…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Applied Linguistics, Audiovisual Aids
Brandell, Mary Ellen – 1976
Described are areas of speech and language which the speech pathologist must evaluate in the preschool screening process. Phonemic development, morphological development, syntax, and semantic development are discussed in terms of normal developmental stages and methods of evaluation. (LS)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Identification, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps
Bloomfield, Morton W. – 1970
Seventeen reprinted essays and an unpublished one are contained in this collection and organized under five headings: History of Ideas, Approaches to Medieval Literature, Chaucer and Fourteenth-Century English Literature, Language and Linguistics, and Essay-Reviews. Topics discussed include the origin of the concept of the Seven Cardinal Sins;…
Descriptors: Allegory, Concept Formation, English Literature, Epics
Gumperz, John J. – 1970
This paper reviews some recent research on the relationship of group processes and cultural milieux to choice of linguistic form and Its implications for problem solving in small (minority) groups. Basic to the discussion is the concept that language usage conveys important social information and is therefore not a matter of choice but must be…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Background
Chomsky, Carol – 1969
In this research monograph, several areas of disparity between child and adult grammar are examined to discover at what ages the child, who is on the border of adult language competence, achieves a certain mastery of complex syntactic structures. Chapters include (1) a discussion of current notions on the nature of the linguistic process and a…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Language, Comprehension, Context Clues
Mathieu, G. Bording – Unterrichtspraxis, 1968
Teachers are urged to improve their teaching through the effective use of pattern drills by examining the construction and function of the drills. Forty-eight questions with answers elaborate upon generalities and technicalities of drill design and their classroom use. (RL)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, German, Instructional Program Divisions, Language Instruction