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Download full textRosat, Marie-Claude – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (Tranel), 1998
This study compared different strategies (questions, comments, reformulations, and repetitions) used by an adult in dialogue with 17 language impaired and 24 control preschool children. Two types of co-production (a tale and a personal account) were analyzed. The stability of the distribution of the various strategies in both situations is seen as…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Dialogs (Language)
Basturkmen, Helen – 1998
A study investigated metadiscoursal signalling devices used in discussions in a business administration course in a British university, focusing on the use and function of the devices in seminars and tutorials. Data were drawn from seminar and discussion classes recorded for distance education purposes. The corpus of about 30,000 words included 18…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Classroom Communication, College Instruction, Discourse Analysis
Carter, Ronald – 1988
A discussion of the state of second language education and English teaching in Britain focuses on the role of applied linguistics in the field. Four major points are made: that (1) books on language are not common in the syllabi of language teacher education; (2) current philosophies on language teaching appear to be either reactionary or romantic…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Curriculum Design, Educational Philosophy, Educational Strategies
Brindley, Geoff – 1991
Problems associated with criterion-referenced language testing are discussed in the context of both standardized proficiency testing and classroom assessment. First, different interpretations of criterion-referencing are examined. A range of approaches for defining criteria and performance levels in second language assessment are outlined, and…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Competency Based Education, Criterion Referenced Tests, Evaluation Criteria
Tickoo, M. L. – 1993
This collection of 14 articles look at the issues in theory and application that arise in the use of simplification in language pedagogy. Articles include the following: (1) "Simplification in Pedagogy" (Christopher Brumfit); (2) "Simplification" (H. V. George); (3) "Fossilization as Simplification?" (Larry Selinker);…
Descriptors: Educational Media, Educational Strategies, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Freeman, Rebecca – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1993
A way in which second language teachers can use analysis of student discourse to understand how small group interaction defines students' roles relative to each other is demonstrated in a case study. The study compared the participant role of a 21-year-old Japanese male student in an intensive English second language program in two different…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, College Students, Cooperative Learning
Bongaerts, Theo, Ed.; And Others – Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen (Applied Linguistics in Articles), 1990
Revised texts of five papers from a conference on Dutch applied linguistics are presented. "Learning a Foreign Language in a Natural Acquisition Context Without Instruction" (Wolfgang Klein) advocates observing and analyzing language learning in progress in natural language learning contexts and presents data from a European project on…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics
No, Yongkyoon, Ed.; Libucha, Mark, Ed. – 1991
Papers include: "Length and Structure Effects in Syntactic Processing"; Nantong Tone Sandhi and Tonal Feature Geometry"; "Event Reference and Property Theory"; "Function-Argument Structure, Category Raising and Bracketing Paradoxes"; "At the Phonetics-Phonology Interface: (Re)Syllabification and English Stop…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Case Studies, Chinese, Evaluation Methods
Lii-Shih, Yu-hwei E. – 1988
A cross-cultural study of conversational politeness in Chinese and English as a foreign language is presented. The primary goals of the study were to make a systematic comparison of politeness rules and conversational strategies used in each language, to identify and analyze the actual communicative problems of cross-cultural communication…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Communication, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context
Larrimore, B., Ed. – 1984
Four papers relating to literacy education for Australian Aboriginal peoples are presented. "Testing Epenthetic Vowels in Anindilyakwa" by Velma J. Leeding reports on a study of Aboriginal perceptions of a short transitional vowel. In "Diagnostic Testing of the Anindilyakwa Orthography for Both Reading and Writing," Velma J.…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Bilingual Instructional Materials, Creative Writing, Creoles
Gass, Susan M., Ed.; Madden, Carolyn G., Ed. – 1985
This collection of conference papers includes: "When Does Teacher Talk Work as Input?"; "Cultural Input in Second Language Learning"; "Skilled Variation in a Kindergarten Teacher's Use of Foreigner Talk"; "Teacher-Pupil Interaction in Second Language Development"; "Foreigner Talk in the University…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Communicative Competence (Languages), Conference Proceedings
British Council, London (England). English Language and Literature Div. – 1986
A review of the status of English language instruction in Poland begins with an overview of the role of English in the society in general, and outlines the status of English use and instruction in the educational system at all levels (elementary, secondary, higher, adult, and teacher), the characteristics and training of English language…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Educational Administration, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
Fletcher, J. D. – 1983
A literature survey of more than 800 sources, approximately 140 of which were judged to be relevant, assessed problems Alaska Natives and American Indians experience in learning English language skills required for survival and success in a modern, technological culture. Since the survey was to guide the adaptation and development of instructional…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, American Indians
Epes, Mary T. – 1983
A study tested the hypothesis that spoken language has a strong direct influence on the encoding process, and that speakers of nonstandard dialects have a different set of problems with the written language and make identifiably different errors than do speakers of standard dialect. The subjects, 13 standard and 13 nonstandard dialect speakers…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Cognitive Processes, Error Analysis (Language)
Calderon, Margarita – 1982
Three research-based theoretical frameworks on which educational programs for language minority students might be based are discussed, along with a composite framework. The frameworks, which coincide with California's frameworks (described in "Schooling and Language Minority Students: A Theoretical Framework," 1981), are as follows: (1) a…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Communicative Competence (Languages), Elementary Secondary Education, Language Research
