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Download full textAtkinson, Rhonda; And Others – 1993
Developed as part of the ABCs of Construction National Workplace Literacy Project, this instructional module teaches word attack skills for use in understanding technical terms encountered by persons employed in electrical and instrumentation occupations. The following topics are covered: the principles of structural analysis, word parts and their…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Behavioral Objectives, Building Trades, Electrical Occupations
Ok, Jong-seok, Ed.; Taneri, Mubeccel, Ed. – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1989
Eight original research papers on Native American languages by faculty and students of the Linguistics Department and other related departments of the University of Kansas are presented. The titles and authors include the following: "Comanche Consonant Mutation: Initial Association or Feature Spread?" (James L. Armagost); "The Alsea…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Annotated Bibliographies, Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 1988
Fifteen articles are presented in this collection on contrastive linguistics: "On Syntactic Levels--One Tertium Comparison is in Contrastive Linguistics" (L. F. Jakobsen and J. Olsen); "Equivalence in Bilingual Lexicography: From Correspondence Relation to Communicative Strategy" (R. R. K. Hartmann); "How Useful Are Word…
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Consonants
Allen, Shanley; Crago, Martha – 1989
An investigation of the first language acquisition of productive nouns in Inuktitut (Inupiaq) is presented. This study begins with descriptions of noun incorporation, relevant aspects of the structure of Inuktitut, and working criteria of productivity. Acquisition data from Inuktitut and corroborating data from Greenlandic are outlined and…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
Stewart, Janice P.; And Others – 1990
A study demonstrated the viability of an instructional paradigm that identifies adult mediation within the zone of proximal development to be a significant factor in young children's learning. Six teachers participated during the first year and eight teachers during the second year. Complete data were collected for 200 kindergarten children.…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Instructional Effectiveness, Kindergarten Children, Learning Processes
Henriksen, Carol – 1990
Two papers on "fag(sprog)lig Kommunikation"--languages for special purposes (LSP)--are presented. The first paper, in Danish, presents an alternative to the current structuralist oriented approach to the analysis of LSP as a kind of language in its own right and of texts written in this special kind of language. The approach is based on a more…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Strategies, Communication (Thought Transfer), Danish
Bissonnette, Ronald, Ed.; And Others – 1990
The following are English translations of the titles of papers presented at the International Center for Research on Language Planning's fourth annual conference on student linguistic research: "Semantic Study of Piscatorial Vocabulary in the Dominican Republic"; "Some Aspects of Economic Translation"; "Bibli: Software for…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, French
PDF pending restorationSwartz, Stephen M., Ed. – 1982
Five papers on the grammar of Warlpiri, an Australian Aboriginal language, include: "A Tentative Description of Ngardilpa (Warlpiri) Verbs" (Lothar H. Jagst); "Syntactic Structure of Warlpiri Clauses" (Stephen M. Swartz); "A Preliminary Description of Propositional Particles in Warlpiri" (Mary Laughren);…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Creoles, Descriptive Linguistics, Ethnic Groups
Bass, Jo Ann Fisher – 1985
Employed extensively in some Soviet bloc countries to teach a variety of subjects, the Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching (SALT) method uses a combination of physical and mental relaxation exercises, music, and suggestive principles to increase learning. However, in spite of research showing its effectiveness in teaching reading skills…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, Higher Education
Svartvik, Jan – 1982
A computer program for classifying elements of a language corpus for large-scale analysis is discussed. The approach is based on the assumption that there is a natural unit in speech processing and production, called a tone unit. The program "tags" the five grammatical phrase types (verb, adverb, adjective, noun, and prepositional) to…
Descriptors: Classification, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Dialogs (Language)
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 1983
This issue of the journal includes these papers on contrastive linguistics: "A Systematic Typological Contrast Between English and Portuguese" (Mary Aizawa Kato); "An Accuracy Order of English Sentential Complements for Native Speakers of Persian and Spanish" (Janet I. Anderson); "Remarks on 'Particle Movement' and…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Book Reviews, Classification, Contrastive Linguistics
Kalogjera, Damir; Vilke, Mirjana – 1982
Part of a 20-year Yugoslav Serbocroatian-English Contrastive Project, this study is intended to make students, teachers, textbook writers, and scholars aware of elements in the system of English modals that might cause difficulties to the native Serbocroatian-speaking learner of English. An eclectic method of contrastive analysis consisting of…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Generative Grammar, Grammar
PDF pending restorationKansanen, Pertti, Ed. – 1987
This international research report consists of five papers discussing five different topics in education. "Views on the Implementation of the Curriculum--Experiences of the Finnish Practice" (P. Kansanen) analyzes research results regarding the national curriculum for the Finnish comprehensive school system and compares them with a…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Course Descriptions, Creative Thinking, Curriculum Development
Calder, Jonathan – 1986
A study of problems posed by Mandarin Chinese data for modern linguistic theory focuses on the reduplication involved in the "A-not-A" construction. The Mandarin data and its possible descriptions are used to investigate the question of whether context-free languages are adequate to describe certain linguistic data. These data constitute a case…
Descriptors: Context Free Grammar, English, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Theory
Hauptman, Philip C. – 1979
In an attempt to answer some of the questions concerning the roles of syntactic vs. semantic cues and the similarities and/or differences between the first (L1) and second (L2) language reading strategies, a pilot study was conducted with 47 English-speaking students enrolled in French as a second language classes at a bilingual, English-French…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Error Analysis (Language)
