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Jabbarifar, Taghi – Journal of International Education Research, 2014
This study presents an overall review of the paradigms that contribute to the making and development of functional human linguistics and communication skills and the teaching of language.
Descriptors: English Instruction, Communication Skills, Linguistics, Structural Linguistics
Arndt, Horst; Careless, Brian J. – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1978
Surveys current developments in linguistics and other disciplines which influence language teaching methodology. A brief bibliography is appended. (AM)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Educational Trends, Language Instruction, Linguistics
Davila, Sonia I. – 1983
This paper provides an overview of recent developments in the science of linguistics, and considers their relevance to the teaching of Spanish in Puerto Rico. First, three significant trends are explained and summarized: (1) structuralism, which emphasizes phonetics, pattern, and distribution, and rejects meaning as a tool of analysis; (2)…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Native Language Instruction
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Gann, Marjorie – English Quarterly, 1984
Discusses the continuing controversy over how to teach grammar. Finds that the traditional, structural, and transformational approaches each have their strengths and weaknesses, with none clearly better than the others. Suggests that the teaching of grammar, while not the key to improvement in written English, will always have a place in the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, English, English Curriculum
Sternglass, Marilyn S. – 1979
Combining concepts of cognitive theory with those of rhetoric and linguistics can help writing teachers understand the kinds of activities that will enable basic writers to produce syntactic constructions appropriate for the content they have generated. A review of research studies of sentence combining, syntactic constructions, grammatical…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Kernel Sentences, Language Processing, Memory