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Kunsmann, Peter W. – Neusprachliche Mitteilungen, 1975
That "will" and "shall" are modal, not temporal, verbs is shown by their syntactic similarity to the modals and by the fact that they follow the same transformational rules as the modals. This example demonstrates the usefulness of transformational grammar in explaining grammatical relationships to students. (Text is in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory, Syntax
Erdmann, Peter – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1977
The use of "some" and "any" does not depend solely on syntactic factors (sentence type), as hitherto taught, but also on the speaker's expectation and other pragmatic elements and on semantic factors not limited to those of quantification. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Usage, Pragmatics
Peer reviewedParkinson, Frank C. – English Language Teaching, 1972
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Evaluation Criteria, Language Instruction
Download full textKatranides, Aristotle – 1970
The relevance, the application, and the importance of linguistics to teaching English as a foreign language is discussed. The author's assumption is that linguistics is "irrelevant to the aims, and inapplicable to the tasks of such teaching," and agrees with linguists such as Rosenbaum that the goal of linguistic science is "to determine…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics
Orf, Rolf-Jurgen – Neueren Sprachen, 1972
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Linguistics
Peer reviewedLamerand, Raymond – Babel, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English (Second Language), French, Grammar
Fox, Robert P. – TESOL Quart, 1970
Presents a transformationally oriented analysis of the relative clause in English, Hindi, and Baghdad Arabic and points out differences in emphasis which must be observed when teaching the English restrictive relative clause to Hindi and Baghdad Arabic speakers. (FB)
Descriptors: Arabic, Contrastive Linguistics, English, English (Second Language)
Lado, Robert; And Others – 1970
This text, developed at the English Language Institute, is designed to enable the student of English as a second language to practice selected patterns of English speech. Required linguistic variations ensure that the student does not repeat the same sentence. His attention is drawn to changes in the pattern by the use of diagrams, pictures, or…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Instructional Materials, Language Instruction, Language Skills
Petersen, Hans – Fremdsprachlicher Unterricht, 1971
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Deep Structure, English (Second Language), Language Instruction
Krohn, Robert – Lang Learning, 1970
Paper presented at the TESOL convention, March 1970. (DS)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory
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
Kastovsky, Dieter – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1978
Reviews some aspects of word formation in foreign language teaching that are receiving attention in current discussions. (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedHornby, A. A. – English Language Teaching, 1970
The author discusses trends in teaching English as a foreign language in Japan and briefly comments on the value of pattern drills, transformation drills and contrastive analysis in language teaching. (FB)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Programs
Rutherford, William E. – TESOL Quart, 1969
A somewhat modified version of a paper presented at the annual conference of the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs, May 1969. (FWB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Universals
Ross, Janet – TESOL Quarterly, 1968
Basic to composition skill is control of sentence structure and accuracy in mechanics. Although it is often said that a student should not write what he has not first heard and practiced orally, it might equally well be said that he should not be expected to write grammatical patterns that he has not read, inasmuch as there is a difference in the…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Sentence Structure
