CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS

REVISION
I. THEORY
1. What is contrastive analysis? What are the detailed differences between
Comparative linguistics and Contrastive linguistics? Give an example for
illustration.
2. What are linguistic components of contrastive analysis?
3. What are microlinguistic and macrolinguistic contrastive analysis? Briefly show
the major differences between microlinguistic and macrolinguistic contrastive
analysis
4. What do you know about transfer in learning psychology? What are transfer
theory and contrastive analysis?
5. Briefly state something about contrastive analysis and behaviourist learning
theory. Accordingly, what is the psychological basis of contrastive analysis?
6. What do you know about the linguistic components of contrastive analysis? What
are levels of language? What are categories of grammar? Briefly state language
models for contrastive analysis on the grammatical level.
7. What are basic procedures commonly used in contrastive analysis?
8. What is a morpheme? Types of morphemes? What about allomorph? Give
examples for illustration.
9. What do you know about the morphological features of English word formation?
Give some examples for illustration.
10. What is an analytic language? What is an isolating language? Can you give some
examples for illustration respectively?
11. What is word formation? How are words formed in English?
12. What is phrase in English? How many types of phrases are there? Give examples
13. What is a complex sentence? Can you briefly state the differences between
“subordination” and “coordination”? Give some examples for illustration?
14. What have you known about the clause types and the functional classification of
subordinate clauses? Give some examples for illustration.
15. What is a paragraph? What about a basic paragraph structure? Can you supply
some important features of a paragraph? Can you give some examples about a
paragraph structure in English and in Vietnamese for illustration? Some points
should be carefully reconsidered when talking about paragraphs in any languages,
what are they?
16. What is paratone? What are some characteristics of paratone?
II. PRACTICE
Do a contrastive analysis of the following suggested topics:
1. Vowels in English and Vietnamese
2. Consonants
3. Intonation
4. Word formation
Choose 2 among the following ways to compare: Affixation, compounding,
conversion, reduplication, acronyms, clipping, homonyms
5. Noun phrase/
6. Verb phrase/
7. Nominalisation
8. Cohesive devices
9. Passive sentences
10. Paragraph/ paratone