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The Early Acquisition of a Second Language Phonology. Hamburger Phonetische Beitraege: Untersuchungen zur Phonetik und Linguistik, Band 28 (Phonetics Reports from Hamburg: Investigations in Phonetics and Linguistics, Volume 28).
Walz, Joel – 1979
The purpose of this study was to describe the pronunication of American college students learning French. To gather the data a set of 21 sounds, all theoretically in contrast with English sounds, was chosen. These were elicited in a series of sessions during the subjects' first semester of French. The subjects recorded their pronunciation on…
Descriptors: College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), French
Remedial English.
Matthews, Dorothy, Ed. – Illinois English Bulletin, 1980
The focus of this journal edition is remedial writing instruction in high school and college. Articles in the journal are: "The Remedial Student is Different," by Karl K. Taylor; "Writing Apprehension: (I) Combating Fear of Failure," by Donna K. Gorrell; "Writing Apprehension: (II) Where Does Fear of Writing Come…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Basic Skills, College Students, Developmental Programs
Intellectual and Linguistic Progress in Foreign Language Students: Students' Development during Their First Year of Spanish at a Swedish University.
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Enkvist, Inger – Studies of Higher Education and Research, 1995
A series of partial studies aimed at understanding how much progress students can make in 1 year of second language study are described. The first concerns Swedish university students in their first year studying Spanish as a third language in higher education. Students were tested and interviewed for their perceptions of their language ability…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language)