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Berman, Ruth A.; Nir-Sagiv, Bracha – Journal of Child Language, 2004
The paper examines two types of texts, personal experience narratives and expository discussions, dealing with the shared theme of interpersonal conflict. Both were produced by the same 80 subjects, participants in a crosslinguistic study on developing literacy: gradeschoolers aged 9;0 to 10;0, twelve-to-thirteen-year-old junior high school…
Descriptors: Age, Verbs, Grammar, Discourse Analysis
Montrul, Silvina – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2004
Many simultaneous bilinguals exhibit loss or incomplete acquisition of their heritage language under conditions of exposure and use of the majority language (Silva-Corvalan, 1994, 2003; Polinsky, 1997; Toribio, 2001; Montrul, 2002). Recent work within discourse-functional (Silva-Corvalan 1994) and generative perspectives (Sorace, 2000; Montrul;…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Semantics, Heritage Education, Form Classes (Languages)
Dogancay-Aktuna, Seran; Kamisli, Sibel – 1996
This study examined discourse strategies used by males and females to convey embarrassing information to interlocutors of unequal status and unspecified gender. Subjects were 80 native speakers of Turkish (28 males, 52 females), from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds and geographic areas. Data were derived from a written discourse completion…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
University of Trondheim Working Papers in Linguistics, 1993
Five papers on African linguistics are presented. "Observations on Some Derivational Affixes in Kiswahili Predicate Items" (Assibi Apatewon Amidu) examines the few morphemes recognized in the Swahili derivational affix system and suggests changes in the rules of vowel harmony and in presentation and representation of the affixes in use.…
Descriptors: Affixes, African Languages, Diachronic Linguistics, Ewe
Oscarson, Mats – 1986
A replication of a previous study assessed the construct validity of a national test for academically oriented Swedish upper secondary students. The analysis consisted of a comparison of test results of 10 percent of the Swedish test population to results obtained from a sample of native English speakers of the same age. Analyses of the Swedish…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Beene, Lynn; And Others – 1985
Text linguistics can make significant theoretical and practical contributions for writing teachers. Borrowing from classical rhetoric and cognitive psychology, text linguists investigate defining text, creating text grammars, and identifying communicative aspects of text. To show how these investigations are useful for writing teachers, this…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Cohesion (Written Composition), Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis
McKee, Macey Blackburn – 1982
A method of teaching English as a second language (ESL) involving open sentence combining practice with group discussion was compared with a more traditional teaching method. Students were largely college-bound and attended the University of Arizona's ESL Center. Sentence combining was analyzed for a paragraph-length exercise on a low-level…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Discussion (Teaching Technique), English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Marty, Fernand; Myers, M. Keith – 1975
This is a report on the use of computerized instruction in some of the elementary French classes at the University of Illinois (Urbana campus). This project was initiated in the fall of 1968. The experiments were carried out on the PLATO III system until January 1973 at which time the PLATO IV system became operational for student use. This…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs
Servin, Belen – 1976
The amount of time that should be spent on explicit teaching of language patterns and structure is an issue among second language teachers. Those who believe that language learning is a developmental process feel that there is no sense in teaching grammar and syntax explicitly since the learner can be expected to acquire these skills as he…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Leu, Donald J., Jr. – 1981
A study investigated whether syntactic differences between oral and written discourse interfere with the comprehension of beginning readers. Subjects were 28 second grade and 28 fifth grade students who read, orally, versions of stories identical in nature except for the structure of their syntactic patterns. One version contained structures more…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Grade 2
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1982
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 29 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) aspects of the organization of redundancy rules in the lexicon; (2) the adult role in early child language acquisition; (3) semantic categorization,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Behavior Patterns, Child Language, Cognitive Style
Teaching English to Speakers of Vietnamese. Refugee Education Guide: General Information Series #23.
Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. Language and Orientation Resource Center. – 1981
This guide highlights problems Vietnamese speakers are likely to have in learning English because of differences between the two languages and suggests ways of helping Vietnamese students of English over difficulties caused by these differences. The first section of the guide provides an overview of the Vietnamese language: the alphabet, word…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Contrastive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages), English (Second Language)
Anders, Patricia L., Ed. – 1981
This monograph is one in a series of semiannual reports on research related to reading in secondary schools. The six papers in the monograph deal with the following topics: (1) the effect of reading level on the retention of propositions by secondary school remedial reading students; (2) the ambiguity of the term "significance" in research, which…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, English (Second Language), High School Students
Battison, Robbin – 1978
This book is written primarily for those studying linguistic topics in the area of sign language, but also can be useful to sign language teachers who want to understand more about American Sign Language (ASL). Pen-and-ink illustrations allow the reader with no knowledge of sign language to follow the discussion. The hypothesis examined in this…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Deafness, Finger Spelling
Cooper, Thomas C. – 1978
A study was conducted with the following objectives: (1) to determine if sentence-combining practice would prove to be an efficient way of promoting statistically significant syntactic development in the writing of third quarter college students of French, German, and Spanish; (2) to apply the methodology for analysis of writing samples to…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), French, German, Higher Education