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Foster, Pauline; Tavakoli, Parvaneh – Language Learning, 2009
This article argues that a native-speaker baseline is a neglected dimension of studies into second language (L2) performance. If we investigate how learners perform language tasks, we should distinguish what performance features are due to their processing an L2 and which are due to their performing a particular task. Having defined what we mean…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Language Fluency
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Cowan, J. Ronayne; Sarmad, Zohreh – Language Learning, 1976
This study examined bilingual children's performance in reading Persian and English at grades one, three, and six. Indications are that the bilingual children performed not quite as well as their monolingual counterparts in either of the languages despite the high degree of variation among the subjects. (Author/POP)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Elementary Education, Persian