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Transfer of Discourse Function: Passives in the Writing of ESL and JSL Learners.
Watabe, Masakazu; And Others – IRAL, 1991
Examination and comparison of the forms and functions of the passive structures used by native and second-language writers of English and Japanese yielded strong empirical proof of definite interplay and transfer of native language form and function to the target language, resulting in awkward, if not completely incorrect, sentences. (27…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)