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Peer reviewedKleinmann, Howard H. – Language Learning, 1977
A study was designed to ascertain whether syntactic avoidance behavior could be demonstrated for two groups of ESL learners (native speakers of Arabic and of Spanish and Portuguese) in accordance with contrastive analysis difficulty predictions. An avoidance pattern was found in accordance with such predictions. (CHK)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Interference (Language)
