Foreign language learning
Subtitle: a linguistic introduction
By: [by] Robert L. Politzer.
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: Languages, Modern -- Study and teaching.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 161-164.
Table of contents: title: A general view of language -- The problem of interference -- Learning a foreign language -- The sounds of English. The consonants of English -- The vowels of English -- Stress and intonation patterns of English -- The forms of language: English morphology -- Syntactical patterns: some examples of English Syntax. Parts of speech and function words -- Transformations -- Pronunciation problems -- The problems of morphology -- Vocabulary problems -- Problems in syntax: confusion of patterns -- Learning the sound system -- Learning morphology -- Learning words and their meaning -- Learning syntactical patterns. Replacement procedures -- Basic expansion operations -- Simple transformations -- Subordinate clause operations.