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Interference (Language) | 1 |
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Cox, Jerry L. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1981
Discusses the theoretical foundations of both basic approaches to contrastive analysis, the predictive, "a priori" version, and the explanatory, "a posteriori" version. Analyzes problems in both approaches, and states that explanatory investigations must be divorced from "classical" contrastive analysis and used with a more realistic methodology…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Interference (Language)