Linguistic Complexity and the Teaching of English Structure.  

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Schmierer, Richard J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies (Full Text) vol. 29 no. 2 (Dec. 1979), page 243-254.
Fulltext: 29_02_Schmierer.pdf (724.16KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LLE/29 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Two linguistic considerations essential for the successful teaching of English grammatical structure to students of English as a Second Language are noted. The first of these - that grammatical instruction gven to ESL students must be linguisti- call complete - is taken as a fact which is universally recognized linguistic complexity commonly varies in different manifestations of a gwen grammatical structure and that such varying complexity must be purposefully controlled and manipulated by the teacher of English structure - provides the focus for the present discussion. This viewpoint concerning the role of linguistic complexity in the teaching of English structure is introduced using as an example the English present continuous verb structure. On the basis of this example, common shortcomings found in the instruc- tional programs of those structure teachers who fail to take considerations of linguistic complexity into account in their instruction are then cited. Two further examples - one concerning the linguistic complexity of negation as it interacts with the somelany distinction in English, and one concerning the linguistic complexity found in English embedded sentences - are introduced to provide additional support for the central theme of the paper: that the conscious manipulation of parameters of linguistic complexity is required for the successful teaching of English grammatical structure

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