This work has been divided into seven chapters. Chapter I has to do with Linguistic Structuralism and the Audiolingual Method of Language Teaching. Chapter Two focuses on Generative linguistics and language teaching and ...

When we are learning a foreign language it is really important to develop the language in the four skills. Reading is one of them and sometimes we are not able to know all the words in the articles or texts, so most students ...

This paper reviews the present state of academic and medical knowledge on the problems that children encounter in acquiring both language and literacy, and concludes that we need to face the issues on other fronts than ...

Purpose: The objective was to test whether the Brazilian version of the Preschool Language Assessment Instrument - Second Edition (PLAI-2) has the potential to assess and identify differences in typical language development ...

Of the 1,000 plus languages of the Americas, 70 are in use across the 29 territories of the Caribbean, including both the archipelago and continental rimlands (Allsopp 1996). Linguistic situations of the Caribbean are ...

In the present work we will understand the importance of the oral test. During the last years, in the teaching of English, we have gone from the importance of a correct command of the grammatical structures, to the current ...

Objective: The present study aims to compare the production of syllabic patterns of the CVC and CV types performed by Brazilian children with typical and atypical phonological development through ultrasonography of tongue. ...