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Genesee, Fred – Journal of Child Language, 1989
Re-examines research literature supporting the idea that infants and young children simultaneously learning two languages mix elements from the two languages. It is argued that, contrary to most extant interpretations, bilingual children develop differentiated language systems from the beginning and are able to use their developing languages in…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Infants, Interlanguage
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Klee, Carol A. – Hispania, 1989
Analysis of four adult Quechua speakers' acquisition of clitic pronouns in Spanish revealed that educational attainment and amount of contact with monolingual Spanish speakers were positively related to native-like norms of competence in the use of object pronouns in Spanish. (CB)
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries, Interlanguage, Language Enrichment
Selinker, Larry – IRAL, 1989
Examines three experimental studies deriving from contrastive analysis predictions and error analysis insights into deviances from expected target language forms. Each of these studies predate the Interlanguage hypothesis. (CB)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Interlanguage, Language Research
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Ross, Steven – SYSTEM, 1988
Examination of the accommodation process in interlanguage discourse in a foreign language focused on the effects of various accommodation and negotiation strategies. Dyads of English as a second language students with different proficiency levels accommodated each other in ways similar to interaction between native and non-native speakers.…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Higher Education
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Tenjoh-Okwen, Thomas – British Journal of Language Teaching, 1988
A comparison of two well-known test formats for evaluating and characterizing foreign language learners' interlanguages revealed that open-ended production test questions were more difficult than closed-item recognition test questions. (CB)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Grammatical Acceptability, Higher Education
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White, Lydia – Second Language Research, 1992
Responds to a reanalysis of study findings that refute the claim that negative evidence can lead to parameter setting in second-language acquisition, presenting empirical evidence from French learners of English, suggesting that positive second-language acquisition data do not guarantee the loss of native language parameter settings. (26…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), French, Grammar, Interference (Language)
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Gass, Susan M.; Lakshmanan, Usha – Second Language Research, 1991
Argues that, when considering subject pronouns, one must examine the input to the learner. English transcripts by two Spanish native speakers demonstrate that the pattern of learner-language pronoun use closely parallels native speaker use. Data suggest that considering principles of Universal Grammar devoid of contest is insufficient for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Interlanguage, Language Patterns, Language Research
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Folman, Shoshana – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1991
Reports on two studies that sought to identify the rhetorical preferences of native speakers when reading inter-English and to compare these with their rhetorical preferences when reading authentic English. (66 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Intercultural Communication
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Camacho, Jose – Second Language Research, 1999
Analyzes the grammatical outcome of the conflict speakers of a head-final first language (L1) (Southern Quechua) face when learning a head-initial target (Standard Spanish) language in a naturalistic setting. Proposes that interlanguage sentential word orders reflect a transfer of two independent parameters from the L1: the possibility of having…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Interlanguage, Interviews
Cornell, Alan – IRAL, 1999
Discusses the treatment of idioms in language learning, specifically questions that need to be addressed when decisions are made on the role of idioms in language-learning programs. Particular emphasis is on the extent to which idioms present a particular source of misunderstanding and confusion for learners. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Context Effect, Encoding (Psychology), Idioms
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Garcia, Paula; Asencion, Yuly – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2001
Explores the relationship between group interaction and interlanguage development, specifically listening comprehension and the production of target grammar forms. Two groups of first-semester Spanish students at an American University took notes on a mini-lecture, then completed a text reconstruction and listening comprehension test. Results…
Descriptors: College Students, Grammar, Higher Education, Interaction
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Monroy, Rafael – International Journal of English Studies, 2001
Describes the frozen interlanguage (IL) of adult learners of English in a natural setting to profile phonological processes that underlie their output. Also examines the impact on learners' oral behavior and the role played by transfer and developmental processes in such behavior. Analysis yields 10 processes shaping learners' IL that are…
Descriptors: Adults, English (Second Language), Interlanguage, Oral Language
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Ayoun, Dalila – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1999
Investigates the acquisition of verb movement phenomena in the interlanguage of English native speakers learning French as a second language. Participants were given a grammaticality judgment task and production task. French native speakers' results go against certain theoretical predictions of negation and adverb placement in nonfinite contexts,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, French, Grammatical Acceptability
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Howard, Martin – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2004
Previous investigations of the variable marking of past time by the L2 learner have given rise to a number of hypotheses which predict the patterns of acquisition and use of past time markers in interlanguage (IL). However, given the complicity between their predictions, it has been previously noted that hypotheses such as the aspect and discourse…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Second Language Learning, Second Languages, Prediction
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Liao, Yan; Fukuya, Yoshinori J. – Language Learning, 2004
This study investigates the avoidance of English phrasal verbs by Chinese learners. Six groups of Chinese learners (intermediate and advanced; a total of 70) took one of 3 tests multiplechoice, translation, or recall, which included literal and figurative phrasal verbs, while 15 native speakers took the multiple-choice test. The results show that…
Descriptors: Test Format, Semantics, Native Speakers, Interlanguage
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