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Peer reviewedCohen, Andrew D.; Robbins, Margaret – Language Learning, 1976
A study of certain aspects of second language learning among three university students, all in an advanced ESL class at UCLA. An error analysis of written verb forms was undertaken. An examination of correction revealed that it was neither systematic nor enlightened enough to actually influence error production. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Download full textLight, Richard L.; Warshawsky, Diane – 1974
This paper reports results of a preliminary analysis of the errors made by Russian exchange students learning English at S.U.N.Y. in Albany. Error samples are taken from a taped panel discussion containing prepared and spontaneous speech, from a TOEFL test, and from a quiz. Errors are divided into intralingual, or those reflecting general…
Descriptors: College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages), English (Second Language)
Carlbom, Ulla – 1973
The materials employed in this investigation were 769 translations from Swedish into English made by Swedish university students studying English. The principal objective was to study aspects of learner behavior (in treating English word order) to obtain information about the types of errors Swedish students commit in English production and…
Descriptors: College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Ingram, D.E. – 1977
The paper reports some of the results of a preliminary survey of the language proficiency of matriculation students of French in Britain and Australia. The technique used (especially the use of Chief Examiners' reports) is justified and the deficiencies that exist in current matriculation examinations are noted. In particular, the examinations are…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Admission (School), College Admission, College Students
Lozano, Anthony Girard – 1976
The question of teaching a standard dialect to Chicano students who are studying abroad has implications for teaching any standard versus nonstandard dialect. The University of Colorado has a program at the Universidad Veracruzana in Jalapa, Mexico, in which the policy is to teach standard Mexican Spanish (the cultivated norm of Mexico City) as an…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, College Students, Dialects
Duffin, Beryl; And Others – 1977
In 1976, small special sections of English A (basic composition) were initiated within the English Department of the University of California at Davis to teach university-level writing skills to students in the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), seventy-five per cent of whom speak English as a second language. This paper describes the design…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, College Language Programs, College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages)
