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Ringbom, Hakan – 1985
A study of the effects of learning Swedish as a third language on the previously-learned English of native Finnish-speaking students examined 10,000 English-language school-leaving examinations of Finnish students for possible examples of Swedish influence in vocabulary, grammar, and word order. The examinations were those graded by a native…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Finnish
Elo, Anja – 1985
A study of the interlanguage of bilinguals and multilinguals compared the oral French proficiency of 20 native Swedish-speaking and 20 Finnish-speaking university students as evidenced in error patterns in oral tests. With the exception of phonological and phonetic errors in pronunciation, errors were classified by word class (article, noun,…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns