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Widdowson, H. G. – Applied Linguistics, 1989
Attempts to clarify the notion of language competence and draws on its relevance to language teaching practices. Language use competence may involve the adjustment of pre-assembled and memorized patterns and not so much the generation of expressions by direct reference to rules. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Patterns, Language Processing
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Thomas, Margaret – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1989
Reviews research on first- (L1) and second-language (L2) acquisition of English articles, and adds to this literature a study f a(n), the, and the null article in the speech of (n=30) second-language learners. Both differences and similarities emerge between the L1 and L2 patterns of acquisition. (31 references) (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Determiners (Languages), English, Language Acquisition
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Blount, Ben G. – Language Sciences, 1988
Luo-speaking children in Kenya responded to a test using nonce forms in morphophonology. Morphophonological processes in the acquisition of Luo plurals and possessives presented different degrees of difficulty for the subjects, with the type of morphophonological alteration in a language likely to affect the rate and order of acquisition.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Distinctive Features (Language), Foreign Countries
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Mossburg, Jacqueline – Reading Teacher, 1989
Describes a remediation program designed to promote students' self-confidence, in addition to promoting fluent reading and enhancing comprehension. Notes that the program uses real books with meaningful language patterns, presented so that each student experiences success. (MM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Patterns, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
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Wilkins, Wendy K. – Language Acquisition, 1994
A learning theory is described that addresses the learning of lexical entries for certain predicational terms. The functioning of the theory is exemplified through a discussion of the learning schema, with particular attention to varying lexicalization patterns. (Contains 56 references.) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Processing
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Serrano, Maria Jose – Hispania, 1995
Many sociolinguistic studies validate the importance of the relationship among social variables that satisfactorily explain the correlation between linguistic and social phenomena. The intersection of sex, sociocultural level, and age initiates syntactic change that first appears in the vernacular and progresses to the accepted standard. (52…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Correlation, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
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Quattlebaum, Judith A. – Language Quarterly, 1994
Argues that formal English is a prestige dialect containing select constructions so unnatural as to be outside the domain of normal language acquisition. Among these are nominative pronouns used as conjoined subjects. Prestige usage is unavailable for consistent use. While formal education may have some effect on normal usage, that effect is…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), English, Language Patterns, Language Usage
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Cummins, George M., III – Slavic and East European Journal, 1995
Focuses on the highly developed nominal inflection of literary Czech and its resistance to innovation. This study addresses the status of morphological variation in the contemporary language. The stubborn survival of "e" in a mass of older Slavic vocabulary in Czech is clearly no invention of the national revivalists and grammarians of the last…
Descriptors: Czech, Czech Literature, Idioms, Language Patterns
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Schilling-Estes, Natalie; Wolfram, Walt – Language Variation and Change, 1994
Using the case of a vernacular variety spoken on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, this article demonstrates how linguistic-systemic principles such as remorphologization, psycholinguistic principles of perceptual saliency, and sociolinguistic processes of symbolic identity converge to account for the development of leveling in this community.…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Cognitive Processes, Dialect Studies, Geographic Isolation
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Eriksson, Mats – Language Sciences, 1995
Describes the grammaticalization of the Swedish word "bara" (English "just") in present-day adolescent speech. "Bara" has in the last 15 years been used with 2 new functions in spoken, narrative discourse: to foreground central events and to introduce quotations. (40 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adolescents, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Gilgun, Jane F. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1995
Analyzed narrative accounts of incest perpetrators (10 men, 1 woman) using the concepts of justice and care. Almost all perpetrators defined incest as love and care and viewed their behavior as considerate and fair, although this care and love were contradicted by adults' refusal to stop when children wanted them to stop. (RJM)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Discourse Analysis, Family Problems, Incest
Porter, Delma McLeod – IDEAL, 1989
Examines the pragmatic uses of narrative structures in the written stories of native-English speaking and native-Spanish speaking college students. It is shown that there are subtle differences in the way that the two groups use structures, suggesting that native-English and native-Spanish narrators have differing perceptions of themselves and…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
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Strodt-Lopez, Barbara – Applied Linguistics, 1991
Analysis of transcripts of nine undergraduate lectures in the humanities and social sciences found that professors used asides and local breaks in topicality to increase global semantic and pragmatic unity, introduce various mutually reinforcing interpretive frames, resolve apparent contradictions, highlight contrast, and establish relevance and…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Discussion (Teaching Technique), English
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O'Hara, Ellen T. – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 1991
Offers a group approach method to learning new structures in German. Students practice one pattern by constructing sentences in a simple, mildly competitive board game that can easily be put together by the teacher. (GLR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Games, German, Group Activities
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Atoye, Raphael O. – World Englishes, 1991
Examination of the pattern of word stress in Nigerian Standard English suggests that progressive stress shift is the primary cause of the difference in stress assignment between Nigerian Standard English and British Standard English. (13 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Language Variation
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