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Telaumbanua, Yohannes; Nurmalina; Yalmiadi; Masrul – European Journal of Educational Research, 2020
The syntactic complexities of English sentence structures induced the Indonesian students' sentence-level accuracies blurred. Reciprocally, the meanings conveyed are left hanging. The readers are increasingly at sixes and sevens. The Sentence Crimes were, therefore, the major essences of diagnosing the students' sentence-level inaccuracies in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sentences, Accuracy, Sentence Structure
Kumar, Sarat – Modern English Journal, 1975
Certain aspects of transformational grammar can be effectively applied to the ESL classroom. The use of the "there" insertion rule in explaining declarative sentence patterns is described as an example. (AG)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Generative Grammar, Sentence Structure
Ross, Janet – Literacy Discussion, 1972
Students of English as a second language, whose errors in writing result partly from lack of control over English transform patterns, should be taught to combine ideas through a transform process. (Author)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Kernel Sentences, Rhetoric, Sentence Structure
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
Bhat, K. V. T. – Newsletter of Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, 1978
The properties of "do", its distribution and meaning, are discussed. "Do" is one of the most common error-zones for Indian learners of English. Two analyses of "do" which account for the distribution and meaning of this element are presented. According to the transformational approach, "do" is introduced in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Usage, Linguistic Theory, Phrase Structure
Meyer, Hans Lothar – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1970
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English (Second Language), Generative Grammar

Cancino, Herlinda; And Others – TESOL Quarterly, 1975
The appearance of English auxiliaries in the speech of five native speakers of Spanish is described, as well as these subjects' acquisition of the negative and interrogative transformations. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Research, Learning Processes, Negative Forms (Language)

Richards, Jack C. – English Language Teaching, 1971
Based on a paper presented at the TESOL Convention, March 1970, San Francisco, California. (DS)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages)
Rand, Earl – 1969
This text consists of 112 highly controlled transformational drills based on rules which reflect the competence of native English speakers to produce and understand sentences joined by processes of coordination (conjunction) and subordination (embedding). It is intended for use, together with readings and a grammar, in intermediate and advanced…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, English (Second Language), Pattern Drills (Language), Programed Instructional Materials
Crymes, Ruth – 1974
This is an annotated bibliography intended to provide, for teachers of English, enough information about research and experimentation in sentence-combining to enable them to begin to use it as a pedagogical technique with some understanding of the theories and issues involved. The annotations are selective in that they summarize the information…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, English Instruction, English (Second Language), Grammar
Stokoe, William C., Jr.; And Others – 1967
These volumes (with tests) on constructing effective English sentences are designed for secondary students who do not often hear standard dialects--e.g., the deaf, the disadvantaged, or the speakers of English as a second language. Transformational-generative grammar is used to describe the structures and operations that the student most needs.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Disadvantaged, English Instruction, English (Second Language)
Choi, Jae-Oh – 1984
A contrastive analysis of English and Korean sentences, including error analysis, is presented. The study focuses on word order, comparing the languages' similarities and differences with the objective of understanding better how the structural differences inhibit the progress of the Korean learner of English. The English data are derived from…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English, English (Second Language)
Davidson, David M. – 1976
To help assess the writing ability of college freshmen studying English as a second language (ESL), this study was undertaken to identify particular structures of subordination associated with writing maturity and to develop a diagnostic instrument to test student control of those structures. Following sentence-generating principles of…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Diagnostic Tests, English (Second Language), Higher Education

Ard, Josh; Gass, Susan M. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1987
Data from responses to a grammaticality judgement test by 26 learners of English as a second language at two proficiency levels were used to investigate syntactic acquisition. Four syntactic structures were examined. Results suggest that less proficient subjects use syntactic strategies, while more proficient learners use semantic-based…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammatical Acceptability, Higher Education, Interlanguage
Wilson, Lois Irene – 1972
This paper presents a technique for teaching reading to foreign language students based on the importance of structural meaning in reading processes. Students are expected to learn particular language patterns for recognition only and are not expected to produce them. Such a procedure acknowledges certain differences between written and spoken…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English (Second Language), Function Words, Grammar
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