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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
Lyytinen, Paula – 1984
A study of the use of the complex Finnish morphological rule system in 45 children, aged 20-24 months, examined the children's inflection of nouns and verbs in speech characteristic of everyday Finnish. Analysis of the correct, unanswered, and incorrect test items found six classes of errors, which were then examined for clues to the underlying…
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Patterns, Expressive Language, Finnish