Learners' Difficulties with Grammatical Gender in German as a Foreign Language.

Rogers, Margaret

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Publication Date: 1987

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Learners' Difficulties with Grammatical Gender in German as a Foreign Language.

Rogers, Margaret

Applied Linguistics, v8 n1 p48-74 Spr 1987

Focuses on the learner's problems in producing the correct grammatical gender for a given noun in German. Discusses the complexity of gender assignment and the lengthy process of acquisition of gender. Examines error patterns made by English students of German. (Author/LMO)

Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Error Patterns, German, Interference (Language), Linguistic Difficulty (Inherent), Morphology (Languages), Nouns, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Learning, Syntax

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Language: English

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