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Jackson, Kenneth L.; Whitman, Randal L. – 1971
This study tests three aspects of the problem of validity of contrastive analysis as a means for predicting errors or problems for second language learners: the constancy of foreign-language errors, the objectivity of the methods and procedures of contrastive analysis, and the capacity of contrastive analysis to make accurate predictions. Japanese…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
George, H. V. – 1972
This book presents a three-part discussion of the causes and prevention of errors in foreign language learning with particular reference to English as a second language. The first part provides a survey of error analysis, defining what is meant by the term "error" and establishing a model of error production. Other terms explained in this section…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Information Processing
Stallings, William M.; Anderson, Frances E. – 1968
The reliability and the predictive and concurrent validity of the MATAP were investigated with the implicit goal of improving the prediction of course grades in the College of Fine and Applied Arts. It was found that reliability and validity coefficients were low, and it was suggested that the scoring system was a source of error variance. (MS)
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Biographical Inventories, College Students, Correlation
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Hativa, Nira – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1988
A student was observed practicing arithmetic with a computer-assisted instruction (CAI) system. She enjoyed practice and believed that it helped. However, she consistently failed to solve problems on the computer that she could do with pencil and paper. This paper suggests reasons for her problems and draws implications for CAI. (Author/PK)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Case Studies, Computation, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Liski, Erkki; Puntanen, Simo – Language Learning, 1983
Analysis of error patterns in a test taken by 698 Finnish university students shows errors are made in this declining order of frequency: grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, and use. More talkative students were proportionately more proficient per utterance, and higher proficiency also correlated with sex (female) and high matriculation test…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Second Language Programs, English (Second Language), Error Patterns
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Birks, Stuart; Lage, Maureen J.; Treglia, Michael – Journal of Economic Education, 1998
Maintains that there is an inconsistency in the regression analysis of the data presented in Maureen J. Lage and Michael Treglia's 1996 article, "The Impact of Integrating Scholarship on Women into Introductory Economics." The authors admit the error, correct it, and report no difference in their original conclusions. (MJP)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Criticism, Curriculum Development, Data Analysis
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Felix, Uschi; Lawson, Michael – Higher Education Research and Development, 1994
A course in academic writing for international graduate students at Flinders University of South Australia was found to enhance students' written expression and structure. However, participants continued to produce high error rates in grammar and show weakness in developing an argument. Journal entries suggest participants began with…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Course Evaluation, English for Academic Purposes, Error Patterns
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Grace, Caroline A. – Modern Language Journal, 1998
A study with 181 beginning-level college students of French investigated the effects of sentence-level native-language (L1) translations on retention of second-language (L2) vocabulary presented in a context designed to promote inference rather than word-to-word translation. Research was conducted to address the specific design of software for…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Jorda, Maria Pilar Safont – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2005
The present study examines pragmatic production of monolingual (L1 Castilian) and bilingual (L1 Catalan, L2 Castilian) learners of English in a foreign language learning context, that of the Valencian Community in Spain. We particularly focused on proficiency-level effects and on the role of the task type in the use of request acts peripheral…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Placement, Second Language Learning, Monolingualism
MacLeod, Lonny G.; Morrison, Gary R. – 1998
This paper describes a study designed to investigate the effectiveness of narrative versus step-by-step instructions for a computer task. The participants in this study were 31 undergraduate education students enrolled in a computer literacy class at the University of Memphis during the Summer 1996 semester; none of the participants had prior…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Attitudes, Computer Literacy, Computer Software
Best, Linda – 1990
Seven research-based papers on writing disorders of learning-disabled college students are listed and reviewed. The papers deal with persistent auditory language deficits in adults with learning disabilities; error patterns and instructional alternatives relating to college learning-disabled writers; syntactic complexity in written expression;…
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Comprehension, Computer Uses in Education
O'Brien, Peter; Richardson, Arthur – 1987
This report: (1) describes the mathematics test given to Year 8 students in the Mt. Druitt Longitudinal Study in 1986; (2) describes and discusses the results; (3) analyzes errors made by the students; and (4) suggests some possible interventions to address the errors made by students. The study dates from 1975 when funds were obtained to provide…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Research, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary Secondary Education
O'Brien, Peter; Richardson, Arthur – 1987
This report: (1) describes the mathematics test given to Year 9 students in the Mt. Druitt Longitudinal Study in 1987; (2) describes and discusses the results; (3) analyzes errors made by students; (4) analyzes the responses to items common to the 1986 and 1987 tests; and (5) suggests some interventions to address the errors made by students. The…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Research, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary Secondary Education
Lightbown, Patsy M. – 1979
This paper is based on a longitudinal study of the development of questions in the spontaneous speech of two anglophone boys learning French by attending French language schools. The development of form-meaning relations in information questions in the children's French L2 speech was examined and comparisons were made with the same form-meaning…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Error Analysis (Language)
Kaldor, Susan; Shell, Ruth – 1970
Through an experiment investigating the processes used by several speakers of Asian languages to decode passages by speakers of Australian English, this paper seeks to establish and categorize the types of problems encountered by multilingual speakers when decoding the speech of monolingual speakers in one of their (the multilinguals') second…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Problems, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Analysis
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