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Richards, Jack C.; Reppen, Randi – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2014
Grammar can be viewed both as knowledge and as ability. When viewed as knowledge, the focus is on rules for sentence formation. When viewed as ability, the focus is on how grammar is used as a resource in the creation of spoken and written texts. Twelve principles are proposed as the basis for a pedagogy that focusses on acquiring learning to use…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
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Naro, Anthony Julius; Scherre, Maria Marta Pereira – Language Variation and Change, 1996
Discusses a study of concord phenomena in spoken Brazilian Portuguese. Findings indicate the presence of disfluencies, including apparent corrections, in about 15% of the relevant tokens in the corpus of recorded speech data. It is concluded that speech is not overly laden with errors, and there is nothing in the data to mislead the language…
Descriptors: Classification, Discourse Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Error Correction
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Woods, Devon – TESL Canada Journal, 1989
Discusses complexities inherent in correcting second language students' spoken and written errors. Alternatives to current error correction methods (1) focus on the use of error correction to improve students' language form, (2) involve the real communicative consequences of inaccuracy, (3) suggest strategies for attending to form when listening…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Grammatical Acceptability
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Lussier, Denise; Masse, Carole – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1995
Reports on the speech difficulties of four French immersion anglophone students participating in a three-month interlinguistic exchange. Each student was interviewed three times, and the transcripts were analyzed for linguistic, sociolinguistic, and sociocultural errors in oral French and for performance evaluation by the students. (51 references)…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Foreign Countries, French, Immersion Programs
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Wesche, Marjorie; Paribakht, T. Sima – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1996
Provides a detailed analysis of techniques used for second language vocabulary assessment and the implied assumptions about the underlying construct of vocabulary knowledge. The article notes that existing measures of vocabulary size are uninformative as to the depth of knowledge that learners have about particular words. (56 references)…
Descriptors: Dictation, Dictionaries, Error Analysis (Language), Error Correction
English Teachers' Journal (Israel), 1984
This journal includes current information for English teachers (new publications, resource materials, textbooks, tests, and trends) and these articles: "Reliability in the Oral Bagrut Test" (Raphael Gefen); "A Methodological Approach to 'Rewrite Sentence' Drills" (Eliyahu Galore); "Translation as a Bagrut Subject"…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Television, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)