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APPLICABILITY OF TRANSFORMATIONAL-GENERATIVE GRAMMAR TO THE TEACHING OF SPECIFIC AREAS IN FRENCH MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX

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Date Issued:
1972
Summary:
This thesis is concerned with the question of the applicability of transformational-generative grammar to the teaching of French verb morphology and French interrogative structure. Past theories of Language learning and acquisition are reviewed in order to see how they correlate with and affect methodology. Then, the implications of the theory of transformational-generative grammar to language learning are studied and an effort is made to apply it, bearing these implications in mind, to French morphology and syntax. The advantages and disadvantages of the application are pointed out, and determinations are made as to the direct applicability of transformationalgenerative grammar to the teaching of French verb morphology and interrogative structure as well as to foreign language teaching in general.
Title: THE APPLICABILITY OF TRANSFORMATIONAL-GENERATIVE GRAMMAR TO THE TEACHING OF SPECIFIC AREAS IN FRENCH MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX.
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Name(s): WILLIAMS, PATRICIA GRAHAM.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Trammell, Robert L., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1972
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 73 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This thesis is concerned with the question of the applicability of transformational-generative grammar to the teaching of French verb morphology and French interrogative structure. Past theories of Language learning and acquisition are reviewed in order to see how they correlate with and affect methodology. Then, the implications of the theory of transformational-generative grammar to language learning are studied and an effort is made to apply it, bearing these implications in mind, to French morphology and syntax. The advantages and disadvantages of the application are pointed out, and determinations are made as to the direct applicability of transformationalgenerative grammar to the teaching of French verb morphology and interrogative structure as well as to foreign language teaching in general.
Identifier: 13542 (digitool), FADT13542 (IID), fau:10386 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1972.
Subject(s): Generative grammar
French language--Study and teaching
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