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Peer reviewedBerman, Ruth Aronson – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1979
Discusses the need for both a "rule of thumb" grammar and more thorough grammatical rules in second language teaching. (AM)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Instruction, Learning Theories, Morphology (Languages)
Peer reviewedAdeyanju, Thomas K. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1979
Demonstrates how Sector Analysis theory can serve as a model for the contrastive analysis of the grammars of any two languages. Examples are provided for English and Hausa. (AM)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Grammar, Hausa
Peer reviewedYarmohammadi, Lotfollah – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1980
The syntactic distribution and behavior of five English and Persian "measure" nouns and their adjectives are compared. From this, errors attributable to transference and those due to inconsistencies in English are enumerated. A unified analytic model of Persian errors in learning English suggests useful teaching strategies. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
