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Collaborative Syntactic Priming Activities and EFL Learners' Production of Wh-questions
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McDonough, Kim; Chaikitmongkol, Wanpen – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2010
Syntactic priming is the tendency for a speaker to produce a structure that was encountered in recent discourse and is measured by calculating how frequently speakers use the modelled structures as opposed to alternatives. Recent lab-based studies have shown that carrying out syntactic priming activities with trained interlocutors positively…
Descriptors: Priming, Verbs, Syntax, Thai
Problems of French Grammar and Usage: No. 17
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Jeanes, R. W. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1972
Continuing series on French grammar. (DS)
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), French, Grammar, Idioms
Problems of French Grammar and Usage: No. 11: "Un" or "Article Zero" after "etre"
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Jeanes, R. W. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1971
Part of a continuing series treating various aspects of French grammar. (DS)
Descriptors: Determiners (Languages), Form Classes (Languages), French, Grammar
The Sequence of Tenses in French Temporal Clauses
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Marcoux, Dell R. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1972
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), French, Grammar, Language Instruction
The Need To Draw Second Language Learners' Attention to the Semantic Boundaries of Syntactically Relevant Verb Classes.
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Helms-Park, Rena – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2002
Suggests that second language learners could benefit from being made aware of the semantic components that unify verbs that display a certain syntactic behavior and the semantic components that exclude other verbs from participating in this behavior. Findings of a study in which production and judgment data on the behavior of "change of state" and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Second Language Instruction
Applying Certain Features of Dependency Theory to the Teaching of Foreign Languages
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Cox, Jerry L. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1978
Proposes a method, based on dependency theory, for teaching reading in the foreign language classroom. Examples are provided for English, German, French, and Norwegian. (AM)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Dictionaries, English (Second Language), French