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Moi Tarzan, Vous Jane?: A Study of Communicative Competence

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Powell, Patricia B. – Foreign Language Annals, 1975

Secondary students of French interviewed a researcher posing as a French speaker. Error patterns and structures used were analyzed. Many errors were apparently due to interference; many others were apparently the result of reduction processes. Results suggested that errors might be corrected in terms of comprehensibility to a native speaker.…

Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, French

The Psychology of Language and Contrastive Linguistics: the Research and the Debate.

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Oller, John W., Jr. – Foreign Language Annals, 1979

Examines the loss in popularity of contrastive linguistics as a method for explaining second language learning systems, and calls for a turn to pragmatics in language teaching. (AM)

Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Error Analysis (Language), Interference (Language)