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Joy, Rhonda – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2011
The study reported on in this paper investigated the concurrent development of spelling in children learning two languages. The study compared over time and between languages the types of spelling errors made in English as a first language and French as a second. Fortyseven grade one English-speaking children completed an English and French…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immersion Programs, Spelling, Spelling Instruction
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Spilka, Irene V. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1976
Studies are reported which attempt to discover the exact level of second language proficiency reached by students in second language immersion programs, with emphasis on analysis of error. (RM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Error Analysis (Language)
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Selinker, Larry – Language Learning, 1975
Data is presented in support of the assertion that the interlanguage hypothesis should be extended from adult second language acquisition settings to those non-simultaneous child language acquisition settings where the major sociolinguistic variable is the absence of peers who are native speakers of the target language. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns