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Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen – TESOL Quarterly, 1997
Discusses potential problems and advantages of assessing grammatical competence from production data from interactional contexts. Argues that regardless of difficulties in assessing grammatical competence in interactional contexts, the types of interactions change with time, as the interlanguage grammar develops. (9 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Context Effect

Huebner, Thom – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
This paper reports on the development of the article system in an adult's interlanguage over a one-year period. It compares the results of a conventional order-of-acquisition analysis with a paradigm model based on Bickerton (1975). (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: Determiners (Languages), English (Second Language), Grammar, Interference (Language)

Odlin, Terence M. – TESOL Quarterly, 1978
This article summarizes a study (Odlin 1978) using variable rules analyses to describe the contraction patterns of six Mexican students of English as a second language. (CFM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, College Students, English (Second Language), Grammar