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Kourtali, Nektaria-Efstathia; Révész, Andrea – Language Learning, 2020
This study investigated the effects of task complexity on child learners' second language (L2) gains, the relationship between aptitude and L2 development, and the extent to which task complexity influences this relationship when recasts are provided. Sixty child EFL learners were assigned to two experimental groups. During the treatment, one…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Second Language Learning, Comparative Analysis, Task Analysis
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Jiang, Nan – Language Learning, 2007
This study examined the development of integrated knowledge or automatic competence in adult SLA. Automatic competence was operationalized in terms of the participants' sensitivity to grammatical errors in a self-paced reading task. Their sensitivity was determined by observing whether there was a delay in reading ungrammatical sentences. Native…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Verbs, Sentences, Native Speakers
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Wang, Min; Koda, Keiko – Language Learning, 2005
This study examined word identification skills among Chinese and Korean college students learning to read English as a second language in a naming experiment and an auditory category judgment task. Both groups demonstrated faster and more accurate naming performance on high-frequency words than low-frequency words and on regular words than…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Word Recognition, Asian Americans
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Scott, Margaret Sue; Tucker, G. Richard – Language Learning, 1974
Report of a study which examined the English proficiency of 22 Arabic-speaking students enrolled in a low intermediate intensive English course at the American University of Beirut. (Author)
Descriptors: Arabs, Contrastive Linguistics, Data Analysis, English (Second Language)
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Hakuta, Kenji – Language Learning, 1974
This study of the speech of a five-year-old Japanese girl learning English focused on the use of prefabricated routines where items are memorized as wholes. The forms of the copula, "do you" questions and embedded "how to" questions were examined. (AG)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
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Bertkau, Jana Svoboda – Language Learning, 1974
An analysis of speech samples collected from adult ESL students revealed recurring variants indicating that learners attempt to simplify the target language in several ways. A universal process of simplification in language learning is postulated to account for the recurrence of the same variants in different learner idiolects. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Language Acquisition, Language Learning Levels
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Khampang, Phon – Language Learning, 1974
Results of a diagnostic test revealed that Thai students have no more trouble in learning English prepositions than others learning English as a second language; all the groups had difficulty. Error analysis was found to be just as effective in explaining mistakes as contrastive analysis. (AG)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
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Cohen, 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
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Lin, Yuh-Huey – Language Learning, 2001
Suggests another perspective in viewing the effect of style on English-as-a-foreign-language learners' errors. Suggests that for consonant clusters, what varies in accordance with style is the learners' choice of syllable simplification strategies rather than error rates. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Consonants, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
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Taylor, Barry P. – Language Learning, 1975
In a test administered to Spanish-speaking students of English as a second language at the elementary and intermediate levels, the results indicated the subjects' reliance on the strategies of overgeneralization and transfer was qualitatively different. Implications of the results are discussed. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
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Bailey, Nathalie; And Others – Language Learning, 1974
A test administered to 73 adults learning English as a second language revealed a highly consistent order of relative difficulty in the use of eight functors across different language backgrounds. This study also confirmed earlier results indicating that children and adults use common strategies and process linguistic data similarly. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
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Zuengler, Jane – Language Learning, 1993
The influence on interlocutors' relative content knowledge on conversational participation in interactions between native speakers (NSs) and nonnative speakers (NNSs) with limited oral skills is investigated. Results indicate that both NSs and NNSs appeared conversationally active, but there were different patterns of participation that could to…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Higher Education
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Liski, Erkki; Puntanen, Simo – Language Learning, 1983
Analysis of error patterns in a test taken by 698 Finnish university students shows errors are made in this declining order of frequency: grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, and use. More talkative students were proportionately more proficient per utterance, and higher proficiency also correlated with sex (female) and high matriculation test…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Second Language Programs, English (Second Language), Error Patterns