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Transformational Grammar and French Teaching

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Lamerand, Raymond – Babel, 1972

Descriptors: Deep Structure, English (Second Language), French, Grammar

Generativ-transformationelle Sprachbeschreibung im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Eine kritische Zusammenfassung (Generative-Transformational Language Description in Foreign Language Teaching. A Critical Synopsis).

Roesler, Dietmar – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1979

Criticizes attempts to incorporate transformational grammar into foreign language teaching, citing specific failures in experiments with the transformational grammar model. (IFS/WGA)

Descriptors: English (Second Language), French, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction

The Application of a New Method in Teaching ESL. CATESOL Occasional Papers, No. 4.

Crain, Catherine – 1978

This paper describes a teaching method based on generative transformational grammar that has been successfully used in the ESL (English as a second language) classroom. The method and techniques are based on the Elgin-Rush study in which the problem of teaching basic writing skills to native English speakers was addressed. The present study…

Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language)