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Harwood, F. W. – Engl Australia, 1970
Discusses and illustrates three rule sets suitable for presenting generative grammar to beginners; and appendix to the author's article with the same title in the February 1970 (No. 13) issue, pp. 39-53; see TE 200 767. (Editor/SW)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Sentence Structure, Syntax, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedReid, Constance L. – Foreign Language Annals, 1973
Descriptors: Language Programs, Second Language Learning, Structural Grammar, Syntax
Gueunier, N.; Larcheveque, J.-M. – Francais dans le Monde, 1972
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Linguistics, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedGuiraud, Pierre – Language Sciences, 1971
Descriptors: Diagrams, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics
Homberger, Dietrich – Wirkendes Wort, 1973
Expanded version of a lecture held at a Teacher Education Conference, Mainz, West Germany, June 7, 1972. (DD)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, German, High Schools, Language Instruction
Chomsky, Noam – Francais dans le Monde, 1972
Translation of a paper presented at the Northeast Confernece on the Teaching of Foreign Languages held in April 1966 in New York, New York. (DS)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Deep Structure, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning
Olbert, Jurgen; Schneider, Bruno – Franzosisch Heute, 1972
Attempt at redefining the role of transformation grammar in the creation of pattern practice drills. (RS)
Descriptors: Language Ability, Language Instruction, Pattern Drills (Language), Syntax
Peer reviewedBrown, T. Grant – Modern Language Journal, 1972
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Grammar, Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedEskey, David – TESOL Quarterly, 1970
Urging that the structure of written English must be approached systematically if good readers are to be produced, the author describes a transformationally oriented technique designed to introduce advanced students to the structure of educated written English. Examples of materials are included. (Author/FB)
Descriptors: Advanced Students, English (Second Language), Reading Instruction, Reading Level
Download full textBorgh, Enola – 1972
Modern transformational grammars can be effective tools for writing, for they offer hypotheses and generalizations about English sentences which can be used in an infinite number of linguistic contexts. One writing skill which transformational grammars can help students achieve is the ability to choose between synonymous expressions. Some…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Evaluation Criteria, Rhetoric, Sentences
Peer reviewedMann, G. Thomas – Unterrichtspraxis, 1985
Offers a practical model for teaching the extended modifier that is economical and linguistically sound, based on the insights and methodology of transformational generative grammar. Five transformational rules are given for generating extended modifiers from relative clauses. Examples of transformations and two class exercises in German are also…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Advanced Courses, German, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedRystrom, Richard – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1972
Discusses the effect of sentence structure on the reading acquistition process of beginning readers. (RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Linguistic Performance, Linguistic Theory, Reading Skills
Peer reviewedIngram, D. E. – Babel, 1971
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Grammar, Language Patterns, Modern Languages
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
Peer reviewedEngels, L. K. – ITL Review of Applied Linguistics, 1975
The article outlines the need to eliminate rote-learning and pure imitative strategies in second language learning, particularly in the areas of syntax and semantics. Theoretical foundations for this need are discussed, with reference to the coding hypothesis for memory functions in language learning. Results of experimental investigations are…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Linguistic Theory, Rote Learning, Second Language Learning
