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Peer reviewedScott, 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)
Download full textDulay, Heidi C.; Burt, Marina K. – 1972
The types of syntactic errors made by children learning a second language provide insight into the way in which children acquire the second language. The contrastive analysis hypothesis states that while the child is learning a second language, he will tend to use his native language structures in his second language speech; where there are…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Contrastive Linguistics, Educational Strategies
Jackson, Kenneth L.; Whitman, Randal L. – 1971
This study tests three aspects of the problem of validity of contrastive analysis as a means for predicting errors or problems for second language learners: the constancy of foreign-language errors, the objectivity of the methods and procedures of contrastive analysis, and the capacity of contrastive analysis to make accurate predictions. Japanese…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
