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Al-Saidat, Emad M.; Warsi, Mohammad J. – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2011
The major portion of this paper is devoted to delineate the types of errors made by Arab learners of English in the area of the article system. By so doing, the paper classifies learners' errors according to the Surface Structure Taxonomies of errors, and illustrates the possible sources of these errors. In order to overcome learners' difficulties…
Descriptors: Surface Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Classification
Green, Christopher F. – IRAL, 1996
Examines the cross-linguistic influence of native language topic-prominence in shaping and accenting the written English discourse produced by Chinese learners. The article endeavors to demonstrate that this interlingual discourse does not meet the criteria for adequate coherence in written English discourse. (22 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Chinese, Coherence, Context Effect, Cultural Influences