A Conversational and Compositional Grid for Freshman University Students

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avondale-bepress.abstract<p>The purpose of this paper is to put together a tool for Freshman University Students with an ESL level, which will assist them to avoid errors in syntax precision and sentence generation. Both these aspects are problematic for students with a SOV language as mother-tongue who then have to produce with a SVO challenge. When their own language is a post-positional language as opposed to English as a prepositional language, that situation may complicate matters for these students even more. The grid is designed in such a way to allow the student to start from the left and work his way to the right selecting one item from the list constructing a meaningful communication as he/she goes along. The overall intention is towards greater precision and correctness, raising the level of accuracy in syntax and other grammatical aspects. The grammar selected for this purpose is the traditional grammar chosen for its simplicity, stability, and continuity functional in millennia of grammar didactics. The role of transformational-generative grammars are not overlooked but none of the recent grammar approaches in sentence grammar, discourse grammar, HPSG (Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar), universal grammar or syntax grammar could serve the purpose of designing this tool except sequencers or DM (discourse markers) discussed by Heine (2013). The limitation to this study is that the Conversational Grid tool has not been tested yet and that task calls for another future article describing the results of experimentation utilizing this tool.</p>
avondale-bepress.articleid1113
avondale-bepress.authorsKoot van Wyk
avondale-bepress.context-key8275740
avondale-bepress.coverpage-urlhttps://research.avondale.edu.au/theo_papers/107
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avondale-bepress.field.comments<p>Used by permission: <a href="http://www.ijllnet.com/">IJLL</a> and the author.</p> <p><strong>International Journal of Language and Linguistics (IJLL)</strong> is an open access and double blind peer reviewed international journal published by <a href="http://cpinet.info" target="_blank">Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI), USA</a>.</p> <p>At the time of writing <em>Koot van Wyk</em> was affiliated with Avondale College of Higher Education as a Conjoint Lecturer.</p>
avondale-bepress.field.custom_citation<p>van Wyk, K. (2015). A conversational and compositional grid for Freshman university students.<em> International Journal of Language and Linguistics, 2(</em>1), 54-66. Retrieved from http://ijllnet.com/</p>
avondale-bepress.field.embargo_date2016-03-06T00:00:00Z
avondale-bepress.field.for200303 English as a Second Language
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avondale-bepress.field.journalInternational Journal of Language and Linguistics
avondale-bepress.field.page_numbers54-66
avondale-bepress.field.publication_date2015-03-01T00:00:00Z
avondale-bepress.field.source_publication<p>This article was originally published as:</p> <p>van Wyk, K. (2015). A conversational and compositional grid for Freshman university students.<em> International Journal of Language and Linguistics, 2(</em>1), 54-66. Retrieved from http://ijllnet.com/journals/Vol_2_No_1_March_2015/6.pdf</p> <p>ISSN: 2374-8850</p>
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avondale-bepress.keywordslexical complexity
avondale-bepress.keywordslexical density
avondale-bepress.keywordslexical sophistication
avondale-bepress.keywordslexical variation
avondale-bepress.label107
avondale-bepress.publication-date2015-03-01T00:00:00Z
avondale-bepress.publication-titleTheology Papers and Journal Articles
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avondale-bepress.submission-date2016-03-06T14:23:53Z
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avondale-bepress.titleA Conversational and Compositional Grid for Freshman University Students
avondale-bepress.typearticle
dc.contributor.authorvan Wyk, Koot
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-01T00:23:40Z
dc.date.available2023-11-01T00:23:40Z
dc.date.issued2015-03-01
dc.date.submitted2016-03-06T14:23:53Z
dc.description.abstract<p>The purpose of this paper is to put together a tool for Freshman University Students with an ESL level, which will assist them to avoid errors in syntax precision and sentence generation. Both these aspects are problematic for students with a SOV language as mother-tongue who then have to produce with a SVO challenge. When their own language is a post-positional language as opposed to English as a prepositional language, that situation may complicate matters for these students even more. The grid is designed in such a way to allow the student to start from the left and work his way to the right selecting one item from the list constructing a meaningful communication as he/she goes along. The overall intention is towards greater precision and correctness, raising the level of accuracy in syntax and other grammatical aspects. The grammar selected for this purpose is the traditional grammar chosen for its simplicity, stability, and continuity functional in millennia of grammar didactics. The role of transformational-generative grammars are not overlooked but none of the recent grammar approaches in sentence grammar, discourse grammar, HPSG (Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar), universal grammar or syntax grammar could serve the purpose of designing this tool except sequencers or DM (discourse markers) discussed by Heine (2013). The limitation to this study is that the Conversational Grid tool has not been tested yet and that task calls for another future article describing the results of experimentation utilizing this tool.</p>
dc.identifier.citation<p>van Wyk, K. (2015). A conversational and compositional grid for Freshman university students.<em> International Journal of Language and Linguistics, 2(</em>1), 54-66. Retrieved from http://ijllnet.com/</p>
dc.identifier.issn2374-8869
dc.identifier.urihttps://research.avondale.edu.au/handle/123456789/08275740
dc.language.isoen_us
dc.provenance<p>This article was originally published as:</p> <p>van Wyk, K. (2015). A conversational and compositional grid for Freshman university students.<em> International Journal of Language and Linguistics, 2(</em>1), 54-66. Retrieved from http://ijllnet.com/journals/Vol_2_No_1_March_2015/6.pdf</p> <p>ISSN: 2374-8850</p>
dc.rights<p>Used by permission: <a href="http://www.ijllnet.com/">IJLL</a> and the author.</p> <p><strong>International Journal of Language and Linguistics (IJLL)</strong> is an open access and double blind peer reviewed international journal published by <a href="http://cpinet.info" target="_blank">Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI), USA</a>.</p> <p>At the time of writing <em>Koot van Wyk</em> was affiliated with Avondale College of Higher Education as a Conjoint Lecturer.</p>
dc.subjectlexical complexity
dc.subjectlexical density
dc.subjectlexical sophistication
dc.subjectlexical variation
dc.titleA Conversational and Compositional Grid for Freshman University Students
dc.typeJournal Article
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