a free composition, in which the student’s writing is not controlled
or limited in any way, such as essay questions, or writing about a
particular topic.
b controlled composition, in which the student’s writing is controlled
by various means, such as by providing questions to be answered,
sentences to be completed, or words or pictures to describe.
see also modes of writing, methods of developmentcompositionality principlen
also Frege’s principle
the principle that the meaning of a composite expression is built up from the
meanings of its basic expressions.
compound adjectiven
see compound word
compound bilingualismn
the theory that a bilingual person relates words to their meanings in one of
two ways.
Compound bilingualism means that the bilingual has one system of word
meanings, which is used for both the first and the second language. For a
French / English bilingual, the French word pain (“bread”) and the English
word bread have the same meaning.
Co-ordinate bilingualism means that the bilingual has two systems of
meanings for words; one system is for the words the person knows in the
first language and the other is for the words he or she knows in the second
language.
For a French/English bilingual the French word pain and the English word
bread would not have exactly the same meanings. This theory was an
attempt to show how the different conditions under which people become
bilingual could lead to different systems of meaning. The distinction
between compound and co-ordinate bilingualism has been used in studies
of vocabulary learning, but has not been found useful as a general model of
bilingualism.
compound nounn
see compound word
compound predicaten
a predicatecontaining two or more verbs sharing a single subject. For
example:
Spring came and went too quickly.
compound predicate