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Download full textHamayan, Else; And Others – 1975
Three groups of subjects were tested in an elicited imitation study. These were 8-year-old, 11-year-old and adult native speakers of Arabic who were learning English as a second language. The subjects were asked to repeat sentences of seven different grammatical structure types. Previous research with 4-year-old native speakers of English (Smith,…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, English (Second Language), Imitation
