Listening comprehension in C.C. Fries’ oral approach

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction. Charles C. Fries 1
5. Part 1: English education
6. Education of English teachers 19
7. Charles Carpenter Fries and the teaching of literature 27
8. Charles Fries and reading 33
9. Americn English grammar 51
10. Part 2: Linguistics and the English language
11. C.C. Fries’ view of language and linguistics 63
12. C.C. Fries’ signals model of english grammar 85
13. Slot in referential hierarchy in relation to Charles C. Fries’ view of language 105
14. Signals of sequence and thought 129
15. Charles C. Fries on ‘Meaning’ in structural linguistics and language pedagogy 143
16. The impact of C.C. Fries’ work in historical linguistics 161
17. Charles C. Fries and the Early Modern English Dictionary 171
18. C.C. Fries on standard English 205
19. Fries and linguistic geography 221
20. Fries’ functionalism 237
21. Part 3: Engllish as a second Language
22. Charles C. Fries and Jerome S. Burner 259
23. Charles Fries and contrastive analysis 277
24. Pattern-practice revisited 297
25. Legacy from a last chapter 319
26. Native speaker performance and the cloze test, A quest for validity 331
27. Listening comprehension in C.C. Fries’ oral approach 343
28. Bibliography of Charles C. Fries 359
29. About the authors 373