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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
Berent, Gerald P.; Kelly, Ronald R.; Albertini, John A.; Toscano, Rose Marie – American Annals of the Deaf, 2013
Deaf Learners' Acquisition of fundamental lexical properties of high-frequency English verbs related to transitivity and intransitivity was examined, including the subtle distinction between unergative and unaccusative verbs. A 140-item sentence acceptability rating scale was used to assess this lexical knowledge in deaf college students at two…
Descriptors: Deafness, Language Proficiency, Verbs, English
Mayer, Edgar – Francais dans le Monde, 1975
Discusses and exemplifies the author's use of transformational methods to clarify the seemingly arbitrary use of "de" and "a" to introduce the infinitive in French. (Text is in French.) (MSE)
Descriptors: French, Language Instruction, Language Patterns, Second Language Learning
Molina, Hubert – Proceedings: Pacific Northwest Conference on Foreign Languages, 1967
Transformational grammar is briefly defined in this paper, and some of the key literature on the subject is indicated. Examples of transformational operation on Spanish sentences are used to demonstrate how this approach makes the teaching-learning process easier and more efficient. (SS)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Modern Languages, Second Language Learning, Sentence Structure

Tomayko, James E. – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1974
A method of teaching question formation in the Chinese language by use of transformational grammar is described. (RM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Deep Structure, Grammar, Language Instruction
Moirand, Sophie – Francais dans le Monde, 1975
Explains techniques used in teaching the process of nominalization to foreign students at the Universite de Paris VIII, in reaction to common usage in the press. The techniques specifically do not use a generative grammar approach but apply principles of transformation for syntactical description. (Text is in French.) (MSE)
Descriptors: French, Language Instruction, Morphology (Languages), Nouns

McCormick, Terrence C. – Unterrichtspraxis, 1976
This paper explores the auxiliary systems of English and German and the use of the auxiliary verbs in various complex predicate structures in the two languages. It aims at alleviating two types of problems in learning German involving governing patterns and ordering problems in clauses. (CHK)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, German, Language Instruction
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
Hollerbach, Wolf – 1975
A device of emphasis in French syntax is defined as a construction of syntactic paraphrase whose function is to make certain parts of a sentence stand out for purposes of contrast, clarification, differentiation, or because a given element is considered important. These devices exist in French because of the lack of a phonemic stress system, and…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), French, Language Instruction, Language Patterns

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)

Doherty, Joseph C. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1971
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Learning Theories, Methods, Modern Languages

Chitoran, Dumitru, Ed. – 1972
The second volume in this series contains three articles dealing with various aspects of Romanian-English contrastive analysis. The first articles, "The Contrastive Morphophonology of Romanian and English," by Anca Belchita-Hartular, aims at a descriptive analysis of the phonological aspect of inflection in Romanian and English, in an attempt to…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English
VALDMAN, ALBERT – 1967
THIS PAPER DISCUSSES THE SELECTION OF A PEDAGOGICAL NORM FOR FRENCH INTERROGATIVE STRUCTURES. SINCE THIS AREA OF FRENCH GRAMMAR IS PARTICULARLY POLYMORPHOUS, OBJECTIVE CRITERIA ARE SET UP TO MAKE THE SELECTION--FREQUENCY, COMPLEXITY, AND EXTENSIVITY. BECAUSE "EST-CE QUE" CAN BE APPLIED WITHOUT EXCEPTION TO ALL TYPES OF KERNEL SENTENCES, IT WAS…
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Kernel Sentences, Language Instruction

Launer, Michael K. – 1972
Most Russian courses suffer from an inadequate approach to the presentation of syntax even though continued emphasis on syntax from the beginning would help to remove the trial and error syndrome inherent in purely audiolingual methods and would channel the student's efforts to internalize and make automatic his answers in a relevant context, thus…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Audiolingual Methods, Cognitive Development, Course Content