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Download full textPearson, Bethyl – 1990
By comparing the language performance of native speakers of Mandarin Chinese and English to English second language performance across similar speech events, a study suggests a methodology for discovering potential areas of pragmatic transfer. Subjects were 6 native American English speakers and 12 native Chinese-speakers, 6 using Chinese and 6…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
