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Zielsprache, Lernzielsprache und Lernersprache im Englischunterricht. (Target Language, Learning-Goal Language, and Learner's Language in Teaching English).

Heuer, Helmut – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1978

Analyzes the difference between "ultimate-target language" (authentic English in all its varieties), "learner's language" (with its limitations), and "learning-goal language," this latter referring to differentiated instruction with graded "input" steps. Teaching suggestions are given. (IFS/WGA)

Descriptors: English (Second Language), Interlanguage, Language Instruction, Language Learning Levels

'To Err is Human': Error Analysis and Child Language Acquisition.

Peer reviewed

Gorbet, Frances – English Language Teaching Journal, 1979

Discusses the value of classifying the errors adult language learners make and of comparing them to errors made by children. It is suggested that teachers correct student errors in the same way parents correct children's errors in order to encourage successful learning. (CFM)

Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Child Language, Cognitive Processes