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Green, Eugene – TESOL Quart, 1969
Tests on children between five and nine led to the conclusion that children's ability to recognize synonymous structures is progressively developed over a period of years and that there is a scale of difficulty involved. Paper presented at the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs Annual Conference, May 1969. (FWB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingualism, Child Language, Comprehension
Peer reviewedChandrasekhar, A. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1978
A brief discussion of the role of contrastive linguistics and transformational generative grammar in studying transfer and interference in language learning. The base language is not necessarily the mother tongue. It is the language known by the learner which most closely resembles the new language being learned. (AMH)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Interference (Language)
Peer reviewedRichards, 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)
Download full textDuffy, Carolyn B. – 1970
Foreign language teaching is currently in a state of flux, as is natural when any discipline is undergoing basic theoretical and procedural revision. The behaviorist trends applied to the audio-lingual habit theory were a major break-through for foreign language teaching, and skills ignored by the grammar-translation method were brought to the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Instruction
Wagner-Gough, Judy – 1975
This is a study of the processes involved in second language learning in which the principal subject was an Iranian child who learned English in the United States without formal instruction. Some of the questions dealt with in this study include: what motivates language learning in a child; what makes the linguistic structure of a language more or…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Jakobovits, Leon A. – 1970
The purpose of this volume is to bring together various materials dealing with the psychological aspects of foreign language learning and bilingualism. The materials have been arranged for the use of persons interested in foreign language "Compensatory Instruction," which involves the notion of adjusting the teaching activities to the needs of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Individualized Instruction, Language Ability, Language Instruction
Lugo, Mabel Erb. de – 1972
This paper examines the important role of English in Puerto Rico and the present situation of Puerto Rico's English language program. The writer gives a brief historical background of linguistics and discusses recent theories of language acquisition and transformation generative grammar. Possible applications and implications of these theories for…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Bibliographies, Bilingualism, Educational Objectives
