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Robinett, Betty Wallace, Ed.; Schachter, Jacquelyn, Ed. – 1983
This graduate level text on second language learning is divided into three sections. The first two sections provide a survey of the historical underpinnings of second language research in contrastive analysis and error analysis. The third section includes discussions of recent developments in the field. The first section contains articles on the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Applied Linguistics, Classroom Communication, Contrastive Linguistics
Chastain, Kenneth – 1980
This study presents a synthesis of major dimensions of the second language teaching-learning process. The first four chapters survey some factors which are considered important in this process and examine what is known and unknown about each one. Subsequent chapters deal with the following problems: (1) language learners' errors, (2)…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Objectives, Communicative Competence (Languages), Error Analysis (Language)
Johansson, Stig – 1975
This book contains eight papers. (1) "The Uses of Error Analysis and Contrastive Analysis." Use of error linguistics may illuminate normal language processes. This paper outlines procedures and applications of error and contrastive analysis. (2) "The Identification and Evaluation of Errors in Foreign Languages: A Functional Approach." The concern…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English
Brown, H. Douglas – 1980
This text, designed to provide teachers and teacher-trainees with a comprehensive and up-to-date grasp of the theoretical foundations of foreign language teaching, is based on the assumption that a teacher-trainee needs to gain broad but systematic knowledge of the process of second language acquisition in order to understand and adapt teaching…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Style, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Influences
Oller, John W., Jr., Ed.; Richards, Jack C., Ed. – 1973
This book of readings includes: "Language Didactics and Applied Linguistics" (William Mackey); "Psycholinguistics and Second Language Teaching" (H. H. Stern); "Linguistic Theory" (Noam Chomsky); "Some Psycholinguistic Controversies" (John Oller, Jr.); "The Cognitive Strategies of Language Learning" (John Macnamara); "Conditions for Language…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language)