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Peer reviewedCividanes, Carmen J.; Valian, Virginia – Language Learning, 1985
Reports on an experiment in which high school and college students were tested to ascertain: (1) to what extent students learning French as a foreign language treat sentences with negative elements as native French speakers do and (2) to what extent students perform similarly in French and English. Offers two suggestions for teaching French…
Descriptors: College Students, English, French, High School Students
Peer reviewedJin, Hong Gang – Language Learning, 1994
Investigated whether topic-prominence transfer is a universal developmental stage or a transferable typology by analyzing the behavior of 46 native speakers of English learning Chinese, a subject-prominence (SP) language, as a second language. Results found that the learners displayed a process of systematically transferring English SP features to…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Distinctive Features (Language), English
