Acquiring Pronouns in a Second Language: Evidence for Hypothesis Testing.

Gundel, Jeanette K.; And Others

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Publication Date: 1984

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Acquiring Pronouns in a Second Language: Evidence for Hypothesis Testing.

Gundel, Jeanette K.; And Others

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, v6 n2 p215-25 Spr 1984

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)

Descriptors: English, Error Analysis (Language), French, Immersion Programs, Interference (Language), Interlanguage, Learning Processes, Pronouns, Second Language Learning

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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