Describes ongoing research into errors in spontaneous speech. (RM)

Eleven language teachers were videotaped teaching the same lesson to determine how they treated students' errors. Analysis showed types of errors treated and treatments used were similar; grammar errors seemed less important than incorrect meaning. Suggested alternative treatments are based on the importance to learning of contrasts, redundancy…

Retrospective study of case records of speech-delayed children (N=73) given 14 different management programs over seven years suggested that age and error type may be predictors of potential spontaneous generalization and that the inclusion of self-monitoring procedures may increase the probability of early spontaneous generalizations of target…

A study of a brain-damaged subject's impaired performance on tasks involving production of verbal numbers found that lexical errors occurred in spoken production but not in written production, while syntactic error occurred in both modes. (Author/CB)

Proposes a method for describing the relationship between writing error and style shifting rates across communicative situations. Finds that errors diminished in proportion to the tendency of students to select grammatical features that are shared by Black American English and Standard American English in formal communicative situations. (RAE)

Effects of speech sampling conditions (labeling and connected speech) on the phonological error pattern of 14 moderately to profoundly phonologically impaired children were examined. More phonological processes were observed in the connected speech samples than in the labeling task. Similarities in performances in the two contexts were far greater…

Form-oriented errors of verbal inflection in speech are examined as indicators of cognitive processing in six experiments with college undergraduates. Appendices list words used as stimuli in the six experiments. (LMO)

Describes a study which examined the phoneme acquisition process by monitoring children's progress toward the goal of being able to use a target behavior in multiple situations after treatment has been withdrawn. This was done to determine whether progress continues if treatment is withdrawn before the end goal is reached. (SED)

Reports on an experiment to check whether the use of articles by Italian preschool children corresponds to that of their English counterparts and on a second experiment to investigate the probability that subjects might produce the correct response distribution by following a rule based on the speaker's familiarity with the referent, not the…

Describes a study which tested the proposal that adults learning second languages transfer errors from their first language (L1) to their second language (L2) when the L1 has activated a parameter of Universal Grammar which is not operative in the L2. The subjects were native Spanish speakers learning English. (SED)

Describes various aspects of written Arabic that have been identified as contributors to observed error production and weaknesses in writing skills of Arabic-speaking learners of English. (EKN)

An error analysis was made of 26 essays written by English-speaking honor students in their first year of university German. Results illustrate the relative frequency of errors occurring in the sample, together with some possible explanations for certain types of errors. (SED)

Uses data from English-speaking children learning French in the Toronto French Immersion Program as evidence to support the 1981 study by Gundel and Tarone on the acquisition of pronouns by Chinese- and Spanish-speaking adults learning English. This study concluded that the acquisition of direct object pronouns proceeds in three stages. (SED)

Discusses approaches and problems in teaching English as a second dialect writing. Also discusses the kinds of clues student writings provide on the students' progress in mastery of standard English. (EKN)

Describes a technique for use in detecting and correcting spelling difficulties. (FL)