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Peer reviewedHolmen, Anne – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1988
Reports on a longitudinal study of young immigrants' spoken Danish during the first months of their stay, focusing on the Albanian-, Vietnamese-, and English-speaking adolescents' syntactic development from a functional perspective. Changes in early syntax are seen as being rooted in cognitive as well as interactional dimensions of language use.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Danish, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
Peer reviewedDyson, Bronwen – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1996
Adult migrant learners of English were studied to investigate the effect of instruction on interlanguage development. Examination of the acquisition of a syntactic structure, "do-fronted questions," supported claims for the productiveness of form-focused instruction and suggested that the success of instruction depended on whether specific…
Descriptors: Adults, English (Second Language), Grammar, Immigrants
