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Download full textMthethwa, Patrick – TESOL International Journal, 2016
This study reports evidence of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) that surfaced from English compositions of SiSwati learners of English in Swaziland, where English is a second language. Although CLI has been studied widely in other languages, it has not been studied in SiSwati and English, and its implications for instruction are not known.…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Transfer of Training
Direct linkLee, Nancy; Huang, Yue Yuan – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2004
The English verb "be" has always been a perceived problem for Chinese ESL learners, however, few studies have been conducted with a specific focus on the interlanguage "be" of Chinese ESL learners. This paper examines the variable use of the English verb "be" of 270 Hong Kong primary school children for developmental…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Verbs, Interlanguage, Foreign Countries
