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Peer reviewedFelix, Sascha W. – System, 1978
Reviews the research on first and second language acquisition, enumerates some basic features of human language learning, and discusses implications for the foreign language classroom. (RM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Grammar, Interlanguage
Peer reviewedAzevedo, Milton M. – Modern Language Journal, 1978
Spanish-speaking learners of Portuguese often transfer features of Spanish language to Portuguese. Learner errors, including those caused by Spanish interference, are analyzed by contrasting Portuguese and Spanish grammar. (SW)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Grammar, Interference (Language)
Peer reviewedIbrahim, Muhammad H. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1978
Discusses the reasons for the occurrence of spelling errors in the writing of a group of Arab learners of English. (Author/HP)
Descriptors: Arabic, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Grammar
Download full textLevenston, Eddie A.; Blum, Shoshana – 1978
After a survey of current methods of studying lexical acquisition, none of which are really suitable for studying how specific words are acquired and used by adult learners and how such usage differs from that of native speakers, a method is proposed for the study of such qualitative aspects of second language lexical acquisition. Learners are…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Research, Grammar, Interlanguage
Richards, Jack C. – 1978
From a consideration of variability in language-learner and language-user data, the concept of proficiency is considered in relation to models of second and foreign language learning. Proficiency is defined in relation to four separate dimensions: grammatical well-formedness, speech-act rules, functional elaboration, and code diversity. This…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Cultural Influences, English, English (Second Language)
Hamayan, Else V.; Tucker, G. Richard – 1979
This study describes certain communication strategies used by Anglophone children learning French as a second language as well as by children whose mother tongue is French. Three groups of children in the third and fifth grades participated in the study: French native speakers, Anglophone children learning French in an immersion setting, and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Elementary Secondary Education
Gaies, Stephen J. – 1976
The language learner is activated by exposure to primary linguistic data in the target language, categorizes that data and deduces from it a system of rules or hypotheses. When the language acquisition process is successful, as is virtually always the case in first language acquisition, the learner's rule system corresponds to that of the speech…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Child Language, Discourse Analysis
Richards, David R. – 1977
The interlanguage hypothesis stresses that errors are a normal part of the language learning process. At the same time, in the view of many, the teacher has a responsibility to provide short cuts for the learner through appropriate corrective feedback. Conventionally, this has been taken to imply correction of expression by requiring repetition of…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages)
