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Peer reviewedDittmas, Norbert – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1988
An overview is given of semantic research in adult Second Language Acquisition (SLA), focusing particular attention on undirected SLA. Several studies on child SLA are mentioned, and suggestions for further research on SLA semantics are offered. (35 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Interlanguage
Johnsen, Birgitta – 1985
A study of eight adult chronic aphasic patients' comprehension of sentences and pictures in which comparisons of time and space were crucial was designed to assess A. R. Luria's approach to designing comprehension test tasks. The investigation required patients, with lesions of varying size and location, to determine whether a sentence expressing…
Descriptors: Adults, Aphasia, Comprehension, Language Processing


