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Abuhamdia, Zakaria A. – IRAL, 1987
Neurophysiological aspects of the development and use of accents in language are considered, including the function of age of the second language learner, left brain hemisphere, language tasks, and other neuroanatomical considerations. (CB)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Age Differences, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Intonation
Peer reviewedRivera, Charlene; Simich, Carmen – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1981
The issues of language assessment and placement raise several important questions: (1) What are the basic premises upon which current language assessment instruments have been developed? (2) What is the state of the art in language proficiency assessment? (3) What implications do current research findings have for language proficiency assessment?…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Proficiency, Language Skills, Language Tests
Major, Roy C. – IRAL, 1987
Reviews the general trends of research concerned with second language phonology, citing several principal factors involved in foreign accent such as age and native language interference. More recent investigations show that pronunciation of a foreign language is influenced by factors of stylistic variation and stages of development unrelated to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Interference (Language), Intonation, Language Research
