This study aimed at finding out the effect of two different methods of ESP instruction, namely, the traditional grammar translation method and an eclectic method on improving university students' reading comprehension ability. The main assumption was that compared to the Grammar-Translation which is probably not an efficient method, an eclectic method that focuses on improving reading comprehen...

In setting up a formal system to specify a grammar formalism, the conventional (mathematical) wisdom is to start with primitives (basic primitive structures) as simple as possible, and then introduce various operations for constructing more complex structures. An alternate approach is to start with complex (more complicated) primitives, which directly capture some crucial linguistic properties ...

This response to Azar (this volume) intends to discuss from an academic's perspective the main points raised in her paper (i.e., grammar-based instruction and its relation to focus on form and error correction) and, to encourage a more concept-based approach to grammar instruction (CBT). A CBT approach to language development argues that the conceptual nature of grammatical forms is best expres...

A Cognitive Grammar (CG) analysis of linguistic constructions has been claimed to be beneficial to second language teaching. However, little empirical research has been done to support this claim. In this study, two intact classes of Chinese senior high school students were given a 45-minute review lesson on the usages of the English simple present tense. Instruction for the experimental class ...

Although it is widely acknowledged that gestures are complex functional elements of human communication, many current functional classification systems are rather rigid, implicitly assuming gestures to perform only one function at any given time. In this paper, we present a theoretical view on the inherent multifunctionality of speakers’ gestures, inspired by frameworks in structural-functional...

This article reviews several recent studies suggesting that – contrary to a widespread belief – native speakers of the same language do not share the same mental grammar. The studies examined various aspects of linguistic knowledge, including inflectional morphology, passives, quantifiers, and more complex constructions with subordinate clauses. The findings suggest that in some cases, language...

Abstarct An important skill for L1 language teachers when teaching grammar is the ability to produce and quickly evaluate arguments that underpin a grammatical analysis. Previous research has revealed strongest in favour of particular analysis are based on linguistic manipulations (LM) rather than rules thumb (RoT). This makes it critical be able handle LM. If LM considered too difficult proces...

We define a new learning task, minimum average lookahead grammar induction, with strong potential implications for incremental parsing in NLP and cognitive models. Our thesis is that a suitable learning bias for grammar induction is to minimize the degree of lookahead required, on the underlying tenet that language evolution drove grammars to be efficiently parsable in incremental fashion. The ...

In the context of globalization, English interpretation is language hub for political and economic exchanges in different countries. a technology from translation, which requires translation accuracy real-time. Traditional interpreting learning methods can only learn grammar some cultural information. At same time, traditional are inefficient cumbersome tasks. participants also need to interpre...

"Clinical linguistics analyzes and describes communication language impairment in patients, a field which aphasia phonetic features have been widely studied. In this paper, I propound syntax-semantics analysis by means of the linking algorithm shown Role Reference Grammar (Van Valin LaPolla 1997; Van 2005), will be applied to sample transcriptions from corpus compiled Peraita Grasso (2010) with...