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Nasrullah; Rosalina, Elsa; Elyani, Eka Puteri – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2020
Learning a foreign language for those who have their first and second language often puts learners in imperfection mastery such as irrelevant lexical choice, and source cultural bounds language utterances. Knowing the concepts merely cannot guarantee the process of avoiding mistakes or errors that learners have. There has been an amount of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Delamere, Trish – System, 1996
Reports on a study investigating how Americans respond to English as a Second Language (ESL) speech depending on the non-native speaker's accent and whether there were errors in the ESL speech. Findings indicate that Americans exhibit different cultural prejudices towards different foreign speakers depending on the accent of the speakers. (50…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context, Dialects, English (Second Language)
Young-Scholten, Martha – Selecta, 1985
The validity of the theory of crucial similarity in language interference is investigated. The theory proposes that when a first and a second language are structurally similar in some aspects, the second language learner will assume similarity in other aspects, causing interference. In this study, the German of first grade students whose teacher…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Contrastive Linguistics, Dialects, Error Analysis (Language)