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Peer reviewedRandall, Geoff – English in Australia, 1972
Discusses what grammar is, what language is, recent studies in language research, and relates these to classroom teaching. (MB)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Descriptive Linguistics, English Instruction, Grammar
Peer reviewedGrunert, Horst; Spillmann, Hans Otto – Zeitschrift fur Dialektologie und Linguistik, 1973
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Course Content, Curriculum Development, Descriptive Linguistics
Peer reviewedCrowley, Sharon – Written Communication, 1989
Discusses the recommendations made by compositionists from 1950 to 1980 to apply the findings of linguists to composition instruction. Argues that the noncontextual orientation of modern linguistics renders it insufficient as a comprehensive source of theoretical or practical assistance in composition instruction. (MG)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Language Usage
Download full textEMIG, JANET ANN – 1967
THE TEACHING OF THE NATIVE LANGUAGE CAN BE DIVIDED INTO THREE MAJOR MODES--THE PRESCRIPTIVE, THE DESCRIPTIVE, AND THE PRODUCTIVE. PRESCRIPTIVE TEACHING PROCEEDS FROM TWO (SUSPECT) ASSUMPTIONS--(1) THAT THERE ARE ABSOLUTE STANDARDS UNANIMOUSLY KNOWN AND SHARED BY EDUCATED ADULTS, TO WHICH A STUDENT'S LANGUAGE SHOULD ATTAIN, AND (2) THAT…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Grammar
Wigfield, Jack – 1975
This paper compares the tone systems of Vietnamese and English, with emphasis on the teaching of English as a second language. Rising, level, high, low, and falling tones are identified for English. Vietnamese has all of these except the last. While in Vietnamese, tones are predictable in the sense that tones and words go together, English tones…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Intonation
Halliday, M.A.K.; And Others – 1964
The relation of the linguistic sciences to language teaching and language learning is explored. Part 1 discusses linguistics, phonetics, and their place in the description of language. Relations between language and the people who use it are examined, as well as the place of comparison and translation in the acquisition of a second language. Part…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bibliographies, Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics
Barkin, Florence, Ed.; And Others – 1982
Spanish, English, and American Indian languages in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico and bilingualism and language contact in the region are addressed in a collection of articles. Approaches to research in the languages of this region are discussed in articles by Valdes, Lope Blanch, and Brandt. Cultural and sociolinguistic…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Indians, Bilingualism, College Second Language Programs
PDF pending restorationFreihoff, Roland; Takala, Sauli – 1974
Under a contract with the Ministry of Education the working party prepared a general system for describing language teaching objectives to be used in higher education. The system is based on the specification of language use situations. By means of it the course objectives may be described in the form of communicative tasks, which the students are…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Course Content, Cultural Awareness, Descriptive Linguistics
