Vol 09 No 2 TESL Reporter

              teaching english as a second language
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imiie hawaii te lalle

winter 1976

TWO CAUSES FOR misfaTpplication OF It T iLAGE RULES LANJ
does not know how to form the present perfect tense or how to nominatize and embed v incorrect application of rules in a foreign one sentence in another the second problem language may stem from at least two basic is illustrated by a student who does not know causes 1 failure to master the operational or in what semantic contexts what commutransformational component of a rule and nication situations present perfect tense is 2 failure to learn a rules true domain of required or who can not identify the features of sentences which make application of a applicability see landa 1974 is a given sentence combining rule either approan example of the first problem who priate or inappropriate this second problem student of english as a second language is the more perplexing one for the student A math example may help illustrate the importance of coming to grips with teaching a rules true domain of applicability see Scandura 1973 p 173 suppose 1 give a I s ndar e aa two causes for misapplication student a neat rule for summing a long arithof language rules metic number series such as page 1 I by david C butler n or 1 61116 n the rule is add th e 1 reflections of a language learner dr butler is instructional psychologist page 2 by beverly mcleod and coordinator of off campus programs some games for teaching for the division of communication and beginning TESL YU HC language arts BYU HC he has a dual page 6 by judy E winn bell olsen background in linguistics and instructional design having completed an MA in linguissentences by retrieval tics as an east west center student at the page 10 by yao shen university of hawaii and a phd in ingenerating language through structional psychology at the brigham media young university in utah page 12 by linda new levine first term in the series to the last term divide instant involvement those by 2 and multiply the result by the number valuable first minutes in n of terms in the series FL a21n we the ESL classroom might assume the student has mastered all page 15 by alice C pack he needs to know when he has demonstrated continued on page 4

by david

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butler

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