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Defense Language Inst., Washington, DC. – 1971
This booklet seeks to introduce basic dialogues for utilization at airport facilities. The English version of the phraseology is provided with the Chinese Mandarin text. The phraseology includes material on: (1) departure control, (2) high altitude penetration, (3) beacon identification, (4) arrival control, (5) circling approach, (6) final…
Descriptors: Aircraft Pilots, Chinese, Foreign Countries, Idioms
Major, Clarence – 1970
The speech habits of the most oppressed --and the largest-- segment of the black population in the United States did not spring solely from an inability to handle acceptable forms of spoken English, nor mainly from the limitations caused by the particular stock of words known to the speaker. Black slang stems from a somewhat disseminated rejection…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dictionaries, Language Patterns, Language Role
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Konare, Mamadou – 1971
The main objective of this basic course is to teach the student to speak Sonray. The main learning devices used in the lessons are short dialogues which are to be memorized and are utilized to introduce new grammatical patterns. The dialogues are followed by several types of drills, designed to make the students familiar with a particular pattern.…
Descriptors: African Languages, Applied Linguistics, Conversational Language Courses, Dialogs (Literary)
Sjoberg, Andree F. – 1971
This report presents a general study of the structure of Dravidian languages, nothing predominant and significant patterns and similarities among the languages in the areas of phonology, morphology, and syntax. There is also a discussion of the main differences of various subgroups or particular languages from the typical patterns. Background…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics, Dravidian Languages, Form Classes (Languages)
Golub, Lester S. – 1973
The junior high and senior high school English teacher should not judge dialect speakers as inferior to speakers of standard English but should rather be concerned with teaching his students the power and use of dialects. At the same time, he should capitalize on the students' dialect skills to teach them standard English skills. Teaching…
Descriptors: Dialects, English, High School Students, Junior High School Students
Strevens, Peter – 1972
There is a large and growing demand for English language teaching to be provided specifically for the needs of a particular subject, profession, or occupation beyond the approach to English as a general educational and cultural subject. It is possible to isolate and define technical, technological, and scientific English, all with common features…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Patterns
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Birkenmayer, Sigmund S.
This paper discusses the relationship of Polish to the other languages considered to be within the Slavic group. The comparison is mainly phonological and considers the Proto-Slavic features still preserved in Polish as well as the distinctive features of Polish which have developed from Proto-Slavic. The development of vowels and consonants is…
Descriptors: Baltic Languages, Comparative Analysis, Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics
Taylor, C. V. – 1970
This paper seeks to define the relationship between speech and writing as two separate media within language, and suggests the use of the term translation to describe moving from one medium to another. Such a view acknowledges the independence of speech and writing, the possibility of translation in either direction, the possible untranslatability…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Ambiguity, Arabic, Diacritical Marking
HAYES, ROBERT B.; WUEST, RICHARD C. – 1966
FOUR DIFFERENT READING PROGRAMS WERE EVALUATED USING 302 SECOND-GRADE PUPILS WHO HAD PARTICIPATED IN THE SAME PROGRAMS IN GRADE 1. IN ADDITION TO THE STUDY CONDUCTED IN THE SECOND GRADE, A PILOT STUDY WAS CONTINUED INTO GRADE 3, AND A MODIFIED VERSION OF THE GRADE 1 STUDY WAS MADE AGAIN IN GRADE 1. THE FOUR READING PROGRAMS INVOLVED WERE (1) A…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Basic Reading, Comparative Analysis, Filmstrips
Call, Mary Emily – 1976
This paper attempts to provide guidelines for writers who are preparing new materials as well as to offer suggestions to language teachers who must use prescribed texts. The basic assumption is that scientific grammars only describe the production of language by native speakers, while pedagogical grammars are sets of rules ordered in such a way as…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics, Curriculum Guides
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Watanabe, Kilyong – 1972
This paper is concerned with the syntactic problems raised by the grammatical phenomenon in Japanese that is called here the "complementizer." In the types of sentences under consideration here, S2 is a nominal clause. Such a clause acts as a noun phrase adjunct to the verb in S1. The noun clauses in question are often followed by a…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Generative Grammar, Grammar
Kachru, Braj B. – 1976
The notion of language dependency presupposes that there is a hierarchy of languages in a multilingual society, and that each language is assigned a functional role in a multilingual individual's restricted or extended spheres of linguistic interaction. In South Asia, language dependency has resulted in linguistic convergence of two types: (1)…
Descriptors: Dravidian Languages, English, Hindi, Indo European Languages
Anderson, Edward
Although some educators have advocated eradication of Black American English and other non-standard American English dialects in formal school training, it is recognized that many dialects are effectively used to a great degree by many Americans. Black American English, like other dialects, is a legitimate linguistic system that has logic,…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black History, Community Colleges, English Education
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Hull, Glynda – Topics in Language Disorders, 1987
Inexperienced writers, including both basic writers and learning disabled, commit errors that often follow a discernible pattern due to applying erroneous or incomplete rules. Techniques for teaching editing skills are described, including textual analyses of students' writing, interviews with students, structuring the editing task, and providing…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
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Marcuzzi, Rose – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 1986
Considers the cultural background and language patterns of Indian children and the difficulties they are likely to encounter in the urban classroom. Emphasizes that teacher attitudes are important in helping Indian children achieve in school. (JHZ)
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Cultural Background, Differences
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