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Peer reviewedFuller, Judith W.; Gundel, Jeannette K. – Language Learning, 1987
Investigates the role of topic-comment structure and the frequency of topic-prominence in the oral interlanguage of Chinese- Japanese-, Korean-, Arabic-, Farsi-, and Spanish-speaking adult students of English as a second language. Results indicate that second language learning is generally characterized by an early topic-comment stage, independent…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Interference (Language)
Peer reviewedTarallo, Fernando; Myhill, John – Language Learning, 1983
A study of English speakers' acquisition of relative clauses in Chinese, Japanese, Persian, German, and Portugese is reported. Various structures were tested to separate interlanguage features attributable to first language interference from those universal to second language acquisition. Application of an accessibility hierarchy theory and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Difficulty Level, Form Classes (Languages), German
