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Peer reviewedEspinoza, Ana Maria – English for Specific Purposes, 1997
Contrasts English and Spanish passive voice patterns of the simple, continuous, and perfect tenses in order to find non-corresponding elements to predict difficulties in the acquisition of English and Spanish as a second language. Findings reveal a positive transfer between all the English and literal Spanish counterparts analyzed. (19 references)…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Language Patterns, Language Processing
