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Jacobs, Roderick A. – English Journal, 1971
A paper presented at annual convention of National Council of Teachers of English (60th, Atlanta, November 27, 1970.) (Editor)
Descriptors: Semantics, Sentence Structure, Syntax, Transformational Generative Grammar
Hayes, Curtis W. – English Journal, 1967
The value of a transformational model of syntax can be illustrated by comparing the taxonomic grammatical description of a complex sentence to a transformation-oriented description of the same sentence. The taxonomic approach, an immediate constituent analysis, requires 10 steps to break the sample sentence into its grammatical components; the…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Kernel Sentences, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics

Slager, William R.; Major, Diana – English Journal, 1973
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Deep Structure, English Instruction, Secondary Education
Zidonis, Frank J. – English Journal, 1967
English teachers have a responsibility to interpret for students the current linguistic insights into language and to lead them in an open-minded inquiry involving (1) careful observation of language data, (2) translation of this observation into rule-like descriptions, and (3) verification of the rules to determine if revisions must be made. In…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Deep Structure, English Curriculum, English Instruction
McGuire, Eileen J. – English Journal, 1967
When ninth-grade students are searching for help in expressing their newly discovered ideas, the principles of transformational grammar can be brought to their aid in the following ways: (1) Assign a provocative topic to the students which they are to discuss as fully as possible in one sentence. (2) Present only the kernel sentences of a…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 9, Grammar, Junior High School Students