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Direct linkJabbarifar, 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
Butler, Paul – English Journal, 2011
About 10 years ago, Robert J. Connors's article "The Erasure of the Sentence" questioned the disappearance of writing style and examined the validity of some of the reasons given for its disappearance. Since that 2000 article, the study of style has undergone a kind of renaissance, with numerous books and articles on its uses in composition theory…
Descriptors: Transformational Generative Grammar, Creativity, Sentences, Teacher Role
Peer reviewedHudson, Pansy L. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1979
A language program using the Fitgerald Key (a method for teaching the order of words in a sentence) and diagramming has been used successfully with hearing impaired students. (CL)
Descriptors: Educational Methods, Hearing Impairments, Language Instruction, Program Descriptions
Peer reviewedMann, G. Thomas – Unterrichtspraxis, 1985
Offers a practical model for teaching the extended modifier that is economical and linguistically sound, based on the insights and methodology of transformational generative grammar. Five transformational rules are given for generating extended modifiers from relative clauses. Examples of transformations and two class exercises in German are also…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Advanced Courses, German, Learning Activities
Elson, Nicholas – TESL Talk, 1983
Surveys some of the principal theories and methodologies in second language instruction. (EKN)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Grammar Translation Method
Download full textFrank, Marcella – 1998
The history of instructional material development for English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction in the United States is chronicled through five different instructional approaches: the audiolingual approach (late 1940s to early 1960s); transformational grammar (early 1960s to the present); Total Physical Response (late 1970s to the present);…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational History, English (Second Language)
Graham, Steve; Perin, Dolores – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2007
This report offers a number of specific teaching techniques that research suggests will help 4th- to 12th-grade students in this nation's schools. The report focuses on all students, not just those who display writing difficulties, although this latter group is deservedly the focus of much attention. The premise of this report is that all students…
Descriptors: Transformational Generative Grammar, Writing Assignments, Writing Difficulties, Sentences
Bordt, Rebecca L. – Teaching Sociology, 2005
This article suggests ways in which a current research article on employment discrimination from the "American Sociological Review" can be used in the undergraduate classroom to facilitate deep structure learning (Roberts 1986, 2001, 2002). The exercises are designed for different levels of the undergraduate curriculum and adopt the strategies of…
Descriptors: Transformational Generative Grammar, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Inquiry, Active Learning
