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Berghoff, Robyn – Second Language Research, 2022
In the online processing of long-distance wh-dependencies, native speakers have been found to make use of intermediate syntactic gaps, which has the effect of facilitating dependency resolution. This strategy has also been observed in second language (L2) speakers living in an L2 immersion context, but not in classroom L2 learners. This research…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Indo European Languages
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Manyike, T. V. – Africa Education Review, 2013
Language diversity in South Africa continues to problematise educational provision and the realisation of equitable educational opportunities for all learners in various ways. This article presents the findings of ongoing research which explores the effect of language in education policy on the L1 and L2 proficiency of Grade 7 learners in township…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, African Languages, Second Language Learning
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Ramadiro, Brian Lwazi – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2012
This paper reports on the oral reading of five grade 2 to 6 isiXhosa (L1) speakers reading isiXhosa (L1) and English (L2) texts. It examines the readers' oral reading miscues (or errors) to understand the extent to which these miscues constitute a language or a literacy problem in this group of readers. Conclusions are that (a) these readers read…
Descriptors: Miscue Analysis, Second Language Learning, African Languages, English (Second Language)
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Kasanga, Luanga A. – World Englishes, 2006
The main assumption in this article is that the pragmatics of the variety of South African English commonly referred to as black South African English (BSAE) have been shaped, over time, by educated bilinguals, through a transfer of features from African languages. Transfer of syntactic forms, now firmly established in the variety, is evidenced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pragmatics, Cultural Differences, Speech Acts
Dube, Sibusisiwe – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 2000
A notable feature of developing interlanguage grammars is the apparent optionality in those areas of grammar where optionality is not characteristic of stable state grammars. In the Valueless Features Hypothesis, it is proposed that the appearance of apparent optionality in the very early stages of interlanguage development is due to the partial…
Descriptors: English, Error Analysis (Language), Foreign Countries, Grammar
Makoni, S. B. – IRAL, 1996
Examines the variable realization of the third person singular present tense by learners of English as a Second Language at elementary and intermediate levels of proficiency in unplanned discourse in South Africa. (35 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Context Effect, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Interlanguage