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Download full textCancino, Herlinda; And Others – 1974
Three hypotheses are examined in relation to English copula and negative utterances produced by three native Spanish speakers. The hypotheses are interference, interlanguage and L1=L2, which states that acquisition of a language by second language learners will parallel acquisiton of the same language by first language learners. The results of the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Interference (Language)
Peer reviewedSchacter, Jacquelyn – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
Analyzes the results of a 1975 study of a 12-year-old Spanish speaker with regard to his acquisition of negation in English. The hypothesis of formulating/testing second language learning is reaffirmed with an alternate explanation of variation in syntactic forms. Results show that free variation is functionally determined. (LMO)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Interlanguage, Junior High School Students
Barker, Linda – 1976
This paper reports an investigation into the transitional dialect spoken by learners in the process of learning a second language. Theories concerning the psychology of second language learning which have been hypothesized by a small number of people in the field are discussed. These theories were first reported on from Scotland and England and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Dialect Studies, English (Second Language), Interlanguage
