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Download full textSajavaara, Kari – 1977
This paper reviews the history of contrastive analysis (CA) against the background of its objectives and its present problems and presents an outline of procedures which seem to be necessary to make the methods meet the objectives of applied CA. CA in the United States was closely connected with structuralism, which was an obvious cause for later…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Error Analysis (Language)
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
