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Direct linkSchauer, Gila A. – English Language Education, 2019
This book is the first comprehensive investigation of interlanguage pragmatic issues in a primary school context that is based on both primary school teachers' statements on their own teaching realities, views and preferences, and a thorough investigation of materials used by teachers and recommended by teacher educators in the state the primary…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Childrens Literature, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning
Download full textCorrea-Beningfield, Margarita – 1988
A study compares and contrasts a set of English and Spanish prepositions of location in the context of prototype theory. It seeks to establish the prototype concept of each preposition and the degrees of prototypicality by testing for native-speaker choices of examples that illustrate best the most basic use of the preposition. The prepositions…
Descriptors: Classification, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Interlanguage
Peer reviewedMaylath, Bruce – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1997
Looks at the influence students' native languages have on comprehension of Anglo-Saxon and Greco-Latinate elements of English vocabulary. Suggests use of a dictionary with etymologies, dictionary of English idioms, small group work involving both non-native and English speakers, etymological reference book, pre-med courses in Greek and Latin…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Etymology
O'Riordan, Mary – 1999
A classroom study investigated the extent of rhetorical transfer in the writing of four Japanese students in a college-level sheltered English-as-a-Second-Language course. Most of the writing assignments from the first 10 weeks of class were analyzed for the number of sentences and clauses in each paragraph (other than introductory, concluding,…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, College Instruction, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language)
Kalogjera, Damir; Vilke, Mirjana – 1982
Part of a 20-year Yugoslav Serbocroatian-English Contrastive Project, this study is intended to make students, teachers, textbook writers, and scholars aware of elements in the system of English modals that might cause difficulties to the native Serbocroatian-speaking learner of English. An eclectic method of contrastive analysis consisting of…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Generative Grammar, Grammar
Pearson, Bethyl – 1990
By comparing the language performance of native speakers of Mandarin Chinese and English to English second language performance across similar speech events, a study suggests a methodology for discovering potential areas of pragmatic transfer. Subjects were 6 native American English speakers and 12 native Chinese-speakers, 6 using Chinese and 6…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
