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Toward Assessing Interlanguage Performance: The Relationship between Selected Errors, Learners' Characteristics, and Learners' Explanations

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Cohen, Andrew D.; Robbins, Margaret – Language Learning, 1976

A study of certain aspects of second language learning among three university students, all in an advanced ESL class at UCLA. An error analysis of written verb forms was undertaken. An examination of correction revealed that it was neither systematic nor enlightened enough to actually influence error production. (Author/RM)

Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns

Encouraging Learners' Conversational Participation: The Effect of Content Knowledge.

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Zuengler, Jane – Language Learning, 1993

The influence on interlocutors' relative content knowledge on conversational participation in interactions between native speakers (NSs) and nonnative speakers (NNSs) with limited oral skills is investigated. Results indicate that both NSs and NNSs appeared conversationally active, but there were different patterns of participation that could to…

Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Higher Education

A Study of the Statistical Foundations of Group Conversation Tests in Spoken English.

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Liski, Erkki; Puntanen, Simo – Language Learning, 1983

Analysis of error patterns in a test taken by 698 Finnish university students shows errors are made in this declining order of frequency: grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, and use. More talkative students were proportionately more proficient per utterance, and higher proficiency also correlated with sex (female) and high matriculation test…

Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Second Language Programs, English (Second Language), Error Patterns