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Chun, Dorothy M. – 1984
Recent linguistic research has focused on the actual uses or functions of language. Parallel to the development of discourse analysis, traditional language learning and teaching philosophies and methodologies have been supplemented or replaced by functional approaches, focusing on developing communicative competence, beyond strictly grammatical…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Coherence, Communicative Competence (Languages), German
Ringbom, Hakan, Ed.; Rissanen, Matti, Ed. – 1984
The 50 papers on English language and literature included in this compilation are grouped under the following headings: Old English (editing "Judgment Day," the syntactic types "every man" and "each of men," and continuity and variation in psalm glosses); Present-Day English (speech rate and vowel quantity as compared with Finnish): neutralization…
Descriptors: Authors, Body Language, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition)
