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Direct linkAlekseyenko, Nataliya V. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The present study is a corpus-based comparative investigation of Theme and thematic progression in English and Russian. While monolingual thematic studies have a long history in Linguistics, comparative studies are relatively few, in particular for the given language pair. In addition to filling the existing gap in the field of Translation…
Descriptors: Russian, Computational Linguistics, Translation, Language Research
Albirini, Abdulkafi – Foreign Language Annals, 2014
The study investigated the acquisition of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) by second language (L2) learners and by heritage speakers of the colloquial varieties of Arabic. The study focused on three questions: (1) whether heritage speakers who enroll in college-level elementary MSA classes have an advantage over their L2 counterparts, (2) whether any…
Descriptors: Role, Language Variation, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning
Ludi, Georges; Py, Bernard – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2009
The bi/plurilingual person is a unique speaker-hearer who should be studied as such and not always in comparison with the monolingual. As such, unilingual linguistic models and perspectives based on the idea that bilingualism is a duplication of competences in two languages (or more) are unsuitable to describe plural practices in multilingual…
Descriptors: Models, Multilingualism, Monolingualism, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedYarmohammadi, Lotfollah – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1980
The syntactic distribution and behavior of five English and Persian "measure" nouns and their adjectives are compared. From this, errors attributable to transference and those due to inconsistencies in English are enumerated. A unified analytic model of Persian errors in learning English suggests useful teaching strategies. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Download full textSt. Clair, Robert; Kaprosy, Geraldo – 1975
The role of language structure in the classroom is discussed, and the limitations of the formal analysis of language is enumerated. It is argued that most language problems derive not from difficulties with language form, but from covert differences in value which are characteristically associated with those forms. Examples are given of conflicts…
Descriptors: Cultural Traits, Interference (Language), Language Instruction, Language Patterns
Sajavaara, Kari; Lehtonen, Jaakko – 1980
A theoretical linguistic model is insufficient to deal with the problems of language teaching because of the complexity of the phenomena concerned and the dynamic nature of language acquisition and communication. Most linguistic models neglect the fact that, in communicative situations, language users construct the prerequisites of communicative…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Culture Contact
