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Peer reviewedEnglish Language Teaching, 1972
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Function Words
Dittrich, Peter – Englisch, 1973
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Language Instruction, Morphology (Languages)
Peer reviewedO'Keeffe, Leo E. – System, 1976
Lexical selection is often difficult for second language students. When, in the case of errors not covered in grammar books, the teacher is able to work out the explanation (feature cooccurrence, for example), the student will have a means of avoiding the error in the future. (POP)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Grammar
Peer reviewedWyatt, Victor – English Language Teaching, 1973
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Evaluation Methods, Language Instruction
Hensel, Gerhard – Neusprachliche Mitteilungen, 1973
Practical suggestions for the treatment of false cognates and makeshift or expedient translations in vocabulary instruction. (RS)
Descriptors: Educational Media, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Instructional Improvement
Peer reviewedWingfield, R. J. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1975
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Kaymer, Gunter – Neueren Sprachen, 1973
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Grammar
Gutschow, Harald – Englisch, 1973
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Grammar, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedBurt, Marina K. – TESOL Quarterly, 1975
Descriptors: Adult Students, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Download full textBurt, Marina K. – 1974
In recent years, there has been a growing research interest in the analysis of errors adults make while learning a second language. The underlying objective of most of these analyses has been to reveal the systematicity of adult errors in an effort to understand the process of adult second language learning. This paper deals with errors from a…
Descriptors: Adult Students, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Grammar
Peer reviewedRobinson, Peter – English Language Teaching, 1973
Based on a paper given at the Fourth Annual Conference of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, London, England, December 29, 1970 to January 2, 1971. (RS)
Descriptors: Adults, Aptitude Tests, Children, Contrastive Linguistics
Peer reviewedEfstathiadis, S.; King, P. – English Language Teaching, 1972
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Greek
Kremer, Richard – Englisch, 1975
Analyzes the sources of spelling errors made by English children. These are found to be not only linguistic but also psychological and social in nature. English ideas of teaching spelling are discussed. Parallels to the German school situation are drawn, and possibilities for solution are suggested. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedPeter, J. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1974
Descriptors: Comprehension, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Patterns
Burgschmidt, Ernst; Gotz, Dieter – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1972
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dialects, English (Second Language), Error Patterns
