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Van Abbe, Derek – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1973
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Instruction, Learning Theories, Modern Languages
Kumar, Sarat – Modern English Journal, 1975
Certain aspects of transformational grammar can be effectively applied to the ESL classroom. The use of the "there" insertion rule in explaining declarative sentence patterns is described as an example. (AG)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Generative Grammar, Sentence Structure
Peer reviewedParkinson, Frank C. – English Language Teaching, 1972
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Evaluation Criteria, 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
Peer reviewedSolomon, Martha – College Composition and Communication, 1975
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English Instruction, Higher Education, Nouns
Peer reviewedGutschow, Harald – Zielsprache Franzosisch, 1973
Revised version of a lecture presented November 28 in Norderstedt and December 12, 1972 in Kiel, West Germany. Reviews findings of the Pennsylvania Foreign Language Project and the European Symposium on Work with the Language Laboratory in a Media Context, March 2-3, 1972 in London, England. (RS)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Conferences, Evaluation, Language Instruction
Arndt, Horst – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1972
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Deep Structure, Kernel Sentences, Language Instruction
Davila, Sonia I. – 1983
This paper provides an overview of recent developments in the science of linguistics, and considers their relevance to the teaching of Spanish in Puerto Rico. First, three significant trends are explained and summarized: (1) structuralism, which emphasizes phonetics, pattern, and distribution, and rejects meaning as a tool of analysis; (2)…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Native Language Instruction
Download full textDECAMP, DAVID – 1968
GENERATIVE THEORY NOW DOMINATES MACHINE TRANSLATION AND HAS BEGUN TO TAKE OVER THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR IN THE SCHOOLS, AS ONE PUBLISHER AFTER ANOTHER COMES OUT WITH A TRANSFORMATIONALLY-ORIENTED SERIES OF TEXTBOOK FOR HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH. THE AUTHOR FEELS, HOWEVER, THAT THE EFFECTS OF THIS THEORY ON LANGUAGE TEACHING HAVE BEEN NEGLIGIBLE…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English, Generative Grammar, Language Teachers
Peer reviewedJarvis, R.A. – English Language Teaching, 1972
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Generative Grammar, Instructional Materials
Girard, Denis – Incorporated Linguist, 1975
Gives a brief overview of FL teaching, from the prelinguistic to the linguistic era, and discusses the advent of an era characterized by an eclectic approach which makes full use of all linguistic data, without being subservient to any linguistic theory, and gives full importance to sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic considerations. Available…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Audiovisual Aids, Language Instruction, Modern Languages
James, Carl – Lang Learning, 1970
Theoretical Assessment of the dialogue as a potential language-teaching device. Appendix and supplementary reading list included. (DS)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Audiolingual Methods, Language Skills, Learning Theories
Lehmann, Winfred P. – Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, 1979
Traces the history of linguistic theory as it has affected the field of second language instruction. (AM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Grammar, Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory
Harsh, Wayne – 1967
An introduction briefly reviews attitudes that critics have revealed toward the tools which linguistic study has provided for literary analysis. Then two of these linguistic tools--the analysis and description of sound and the awareness of the ways in which meaning is expressed by structure--are discussed and illustrated. "Fringe benefits" of…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Dialects, English, Linguistics
Crain, Catherine – 1978
This paper describes a teaching method based on generative transformational grammar that has been successfully used in the ESL (English as a second language) classroom. The method and techniques are based on the Elgin-Rush study in which the problem of teaching basic writing skills to native English speakers was addressed. The present study…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language)
