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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
Mukattash, Lewis – IRAL, 1986
Examines the role and significance of systematic error correction and explicit grammatical explanation in adult foreign language education. The type and nature of certain grammatical errors which are characteristic of the interlanguage of Arab learners of English as a second language and which seem insusceptible to defossilization are…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Arabic, Arabs, Code Switching (Language)
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Mansouri, Fethi – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1997
Investigates the effect of competing structures (pragmatics, semantics and morphosyntax) on the development of Arabic subject-verb agreement morphology and marking in Arabic interlanguage among Australian students of Arabic. Findings indicate that linguistic complexity influences the processing strategies employed and determines the order of…
Descriptors: Arabic, College Students, Data Collection, Foreign Countries
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Pair, Rob le – Language Sciences, 1996
Discusses politeness strategies used by native and Dutch speakers of Spanish, contrasting the act of making requests by these two groups of speakers. One of the article's conclusions states that native speakers of Spanish are more direct in their requests, and that nonnative speakers attempt to sound less face-threatening and less offensive. (23…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics
Dam, Phap – 2001
Language educators find two kinds of errors in the interlanguages of language learners: developmental and interference. While developmental errors reflect a normal pattern of development common among all language learners, interference errors are caused by the learners' native languages. This paper deals with a number of die-hard types of…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)