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Peer reviewedTalamas, Adrienne; Kroll, Judith F.; Dufour, Robert – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1999
Examined why adults learning second languages make frequent errors in lexical form. More and less fluent bilinguals in English and Spanish performed a translation recognition task in which they had to decide whether the second of two words was the correct translation of the first. Less fluent participants experienced more interference for…
Descriptors: Adults, Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, English
