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Kaplan, Marsha A. – 1983
The patterns of acquisition of the passe compose and imperfect tenses in French among 16 adult beginning and intermediate students were studied. Based on 15-minute speech samples in which both verb tenses were elicited by seeded questions and cues for descriptive and narrative monologues, the intermediate learners had greater success with the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design, Error Patterns
