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Peer reviewedChu, Chauncey C. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1978
Proposes an approach to contrastive linguistics which takes into account syntax and semantics, and discusses the role of such an approach in explaining surface structure differences between English and Chinese sentences of the type: "He is a good pianist" and "I have a bad knee." (AM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English
Peer reviewedLado, Robert – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
Discusses two experiments designed to test the following hypothesis: translation which proceeds from surface structure to surface structure causes greater interference than delayed interpretation across languages that stores the ideas in deep memory and expresses them later in the target language. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Interference (Language), Language Instruction
