Reflexions eristiques et heuristiques sur le

Zemb, J. M.

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ERIC Number: EJ126028

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Publication Date: 1975

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Reflexions eristiques et heuristiques sur le "tertium comparationis" (Eristic and Heuristic Reflextions on the 'Tertium Comparationis')

Zemb, J. M.

Langages, 9, 39, 65-80, Sep 75

Questions the effectiveness of contrastive linguistics in measuring the difference between two languages and therefore in predicting the ease or difficulty of acquisition from one to the other. The simplicity of a language is not objectively quantifiable since it is measured as relative to other languages. (Text is in French.) (TL)

Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Error Patterns, Evaluation Methods, French, German, Language Instruction, Prediction, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods

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