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- Title
The Use of Case Grammar in Teaching English as a Foreign Language.
- Authors
Nilsen, Don L. F.
- Abstract
The article offers information on the advantages of the use of case frames of verbs as a control for the teaching of English vocabulary items in the acquisition of English as a foreign language. The author in this article thinks that Case Grammar is a very sound pedagogical tool for teaching English as a foreign language as it has a universal base, a semantic base. The verbs of any particular language select the particular semantic cases that are compatible with them. The case frames in a particular vocabulary item or with a particular semantic class would be the same in the native and the target language. This provides an advantage of allowing the student to see how his language is the same as the target language. It also enables the materials to be situationally as well as structurally controlled, and allows students to use conceptual clues in learning new vocabulary items.
- Subjects
ENGLISH as a foreign language; LANGUAGE glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; FOREIGN language education; VERBS; SYNTAX (Grammar); GRAMMAR; VOCABULARY; LINGUISTICS; SECOND language acquisition
- Publication
TESOL Quarterly, 1971, Vol 5, Issue 3, p293
- ISSN
0039-8322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3585495