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Koskensalo, Annikki – 1987
A discussion of the nature and function of interlanguage in second language acquisition draws on research on interlanguage and experiences in teaching German to Finnish secondary students. The theories giving rise to the concept of interlanguage are outlined and compared, and the characteristics of interlanguage are discussed. Special attention is…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Foreign Countries, German, High Schools
Ringbom, Hakan, Ed. – 1985
This collection of six essays and one bibliography on second language learning includes: (1) "Transfer in Relation to Some Other Variables in L2-Learning" (Hakan Ringbom); (2) "Word Frequencies in Finnish and Finland-Swedish Learner Language" (Hakan Ringbom); (3) "The Influence of Swedish on the English of Finnish…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Finnish
Download full textRingbom, Hakan – 1985
A study of the effects of learning Swedish as a third language on the previously-learned English of native Finnish-speaking students examined 10,000 English-language school-leaving examinations of Finnish students for possible examples of Swedish influence in vocabulary, grammar, and word order. The examinations were those graded by a native…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Finnish
Sjoholm, Kaj – 1979
A multiple-choice test of English vocabulary and grammar was administered to college-bound Swedish-speaking and Finnish-speaking students studying English in Finland. Erroneous responses were analyzed to determine differences in learning strategies between the two groups. Swedish speakers were found to choose incorrect alternatives based on…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Finnish
Elo, Anja – 1985
A study of the interlanguage of bilinguals and multilinguals compared the oral French proficiency of 20 native Swedish-speaking and 20 Finnish-speaking university students as evidenced in error patterns in oral tests. With the exception of phonological and phonetic errors in pronunciation, errors were classified by word class (article, noun,…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Palmberg, Rolf; And Others – 1979
Three measure of English language proficiency (a partial dictation [Cloze] test, a text-reading and recollection test, and a story-telling test) were administered to three groups of college-level students (Finns, Swedish-Finns, and Swedes). The results are analyzed in several articles presented here: (1) "The Comprehension of Function Words…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comprehension
Peer reviewedSajavaara, Kari; Dufva, Hannele – International Journal of English Studies, 2001
Gives a summary of the theoretical approaches to the role of phonetics and phonology in language learning and teaching as developed by the Finnish-English cross-language project at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. Analysis was extended over the chains of connected speech to deal with all the phenomena that give rhythm in speech. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
