Example sentences of "[noun] to language [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smadja [ 1989 ] used co-occurrence data as an aid to language generation . |
| 2 | This section looks at those you are most likely to have access to and suggests ways of assessing their suitability as an aid to language learning . |
| 3 | For further discussion see Peters 1967 , 1973 ; Widdowson 1983 , and with particular reference to language teaching , Larsen-Freeman 1983 . |
| 4 | These remarks of Chomsky have often been quoted , and adduced more often than not , almost gleefully at times , as evidence in support of the view that linguistics has no relevance to language teaching and that therefore applied linguistics , as it relates to pedagogy at least , is vacuous . |
| 5 | As I have already indicated , there are broadly speaking two kinds of insight of potential relevance to language teaching which we might expect linguistics to provide . |
| 6 | However , if we take the broader scope of pragmatics represented by the definition that relates context to language understanding , there may well be cases where sociolinguistic variables would be of relevance to language understanding . |
| 7 | Mr. Gordon stumped off the field , holding the two pieces of broken club and giving vent to language ill-befitting the lay-reader son of a clergyman — ‘ my best bloody driver , my best bloody driver . ’ |
| 8 | ( For the kind of reasoned enquiry needed into the relevance of behaviourist ideas to language teaching see Rivers 1964 . ) |
| 9 | For a programme in which you can devote six hours a day to language learning , Brewster and Brewster suggest the following amounts of time on each phrase : In your daily programme you may experience two reactions — boredom or frustration . |
| 10 | Delay rather than a deviant pattern to language development is reported and 3-year-olds have been found to be 5–8 months behind in their language norms ( Jerger et al . |
| 11 | Given earlier findings identifying a statistically significant correlation between a company 's export growth and the language proficiency of its personnel ( see Schlegelmilch & Ross , Journal of Marketing Management ( 1987 ) , vol.3 No.2 ) , an investigation of the most ‘ successful ’ companies in Europe ( by economic criteria ) should reveal an explicit corporate commitment to language training and translation . |
| 12 | All companies showed a strong commitment to language training which varied between 20% and 65% of the company 's training budget . |
| 13 | Conceptual criteria , then , as they are more specifically invoked to establish relevance across cultures or domains ( from linguistics and other disciplines to language pedagogy ) , are used in the process of appraisal . |
| 14 | This general approach can also be used to interpret the patterns of impairment to language processing seen in patients with acquired disorders of language produced by neurological damage . |
| 15 | They should learn to recognise when people 's attitudes to language use , eg as expressed in letters to newspapers , reveal misunderstandings about the nature of language change . |
| 16 | James ( 1988 ) explores the relevance of metrical phonology to language learning . |
| 17 | This interactionist approach to language description has resulted in an emphasis upon functionally based descriptions ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 18 | I have presented the rationale for a pragmatic approach to language pedagogy which casts the teacher in the role of mediator between theory and practice . |
| 19 | A naturalistic approach to language development in its social context |
| 20 | This research investigates the use of Microwriter Quinkeys linked to BBC microcomputers as a means of overcoming the practical classroom problems inherent in an interactive-cooperative approach to language development and to assess the impact on language development in young children . |
| 21 | I refer here , of course , to B. F. Skinner , whose views on language learning as essentially a matter of behaviour being shaped by stimulus control provided theoretical warrant for an approach to language teaching which focused on habit formation . |
| 22 | It is just this point that is made by Lado , whose approach to language teaching is so often represented as directly opposed to the development of communicative abilities : |
| 23 | Is there any place for practice exercises in a communicative approach to language teaching ? |
| 24 | Is simplification as a pedagogic strategy inconsistent with the principles of a communicative approach to language teaching ? |
| 25 | It seems sometimes to be supposed that what is commendable about a communicative approach to language teaching is that it does not , as a structural approach does , have to get learners to puzzle their heads with grammar . |
| 26 | Simplifying somewhat , we might say that a structural approach to language teaching lays emphasis on systemic knowledge and makes the assumption that once this is acquired the learners will discover for themselves how it is put to use in communication . |
| 27 | Widely acclaimed for its innovative approach to language teaching , Project English won first prize in the 1986 English Speaking Union 's Duke of Edinburgh Book Competition . |
| 28 | Listening and speaking ; Lado ( 1964 ) explains that this approach to language teaching considers listening and speaking the first task in language learning , followed by the mastering of the reading and writing skills . |
| 29 | So do the techniques of certain other methods , such as the notional approach to language teaching . |
| 30 | Thus it is highly unlikely either that a course will be designed that is universally acclaimed as the definitive model for all courses or that any one teacher will find the perfect course that suits the needs of his students , his own personality and his own approach to language teaching , but he can change or adapt it as he sees fit . |