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Ediger, Marlow – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2011
Proficiency in oral communication is necessary in school and in society. To do well in the different curriculum areas, pupils must speak with clarity and understanding. For example, in a discussion group in the social studies involving the topic "the pros and cons of raising taxes," pupils need to express knowledgeable ideas with appropriate voice…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Semantics, Syntax, State Standards
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Pearlman, Daniel – College English, 1978
Many errors in ESL students' writing are caused by misleading cognates, words in the two languages which look alike, yet do not mean the same thing. (DD)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Higher Education, Semantics
Zughoul, Muhammad Raji; Abdul-Fattah, Hussein S. – 2001
This study examined learners' productive competence in collocations and idioms by means of their performance on two interdependent tasks. Participants were two groups of English as a Foreign Language undergraduate and graduate students from the English department at Jordan's Yarmouk University. The two tasks included the following: a multiple…
Descriptors: Arabic, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Foreign Countries
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Born, Renate – Unterrichtspraxis, 1985
Describes a study of those areas that experience suggests are major sources of error for native English-speakers studying German. Students' writing samples of different proficiency levels were analysed to establish (1) changes in error rate per student over the three semesters and (2) degree of negative transfer for each group. (SED)
Descriptors: English, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Foreign Countries
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Ree, Joe J. – Theory into Practice, 1994
Details errors commonly made by learners of Korean because of inadequate linguistic description or grammar explanations; suggests that one way of minimizing learner errors is to provide explicit linguistic descriptions (i.e., grammatical rules, explanations, and usage); also attention must be paid to presentation of word order and vocabulary…
Descriptors: College Students, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Higher Education
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Salaberry, M. Rafael; Lopez-Ortega, Nuria – Modern Language Journal, 1998
A study analyzed the accuracy of Spanish second-language production across three tasks (narrative, multiple-choice cloze test, fill-in cloze test) on three discourse-determined grammatical items (subject pronouns, articles, past tense aspect) among 74 intermediate and advanced college-level learners. Results revealed different rates of accuracy…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, Error Patterns, Grammar
Hussam, Ali; Ford, Brian; Ludwig, Gail; Prewitt, Mike; Anderson, Terry – 1998
The main method of locating information on the World Wide Web is to use a search engine. Given a set of terms, a search engine will return a list of documents containing those terms. Often, though, this list of documents is extremely large. Unfortunately, there are currently no tools to assist the information seeker in determining whether these…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Text, Error Patterns
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Grace, Caroline A. – Modern Language Journal, 1998
A study with 181 beginning-level college students of French investigated the effects of sentence-level native-language (L1) translations on retention of second-language (L2) vocabulary presented in a context designed to promote inference rather than word-to-word translation. Research was conducted to address the specific design of software for…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction
Otsu, Yukio, Ed. – 1989
Seven original research papers are presented. The titles and authors are as follows: "Acquisition of the Argument-Structure of Verbs" (Mika Endo); "A Note on Semantic Selection" (Yoshio Endo); "The Governing Category Parameter in Second Language" (Makiko Hirakawa); "The Use of Connectives in English Academic…
Descriptors: College Students, English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language), Error Patterns
Allison, Desmond M., Ed. – Hongkong Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1990
Papers on linguistics and language teaching in this volume are the following: "Language in Education: Hard Choices for Hong Kong" (Jo Lewkowicz); "EL2--Medium Education in a Largely Monolingual Society: The Case of Hong Kong" (Nigel Bruce); "A Programme for Semantics" (Laurence Goldstein); "Semantics and Its…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Correction, Error Patterns, Foreign Countries