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A Touch of ... Class! Synthese des 50 erreurs les plus courantes a l'ecrit: Pour une approche fonctionnelle de la langue (A Synopsis of the 50 Most Common Writing Errors: For a Functional Language Approach).
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Besnard, Christine – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1995
Lists the 50 most common writing errors made by college students of French. Mistakes in spelling, vocabulary, and grammar are included. (CK)
Descriptors: College Students, English, Error Patterns, French
Overgeneralization in a Group of Spanish-English Bilingual Children.
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Medina-Nguyen, Suzanne – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1981
Analyzes the overgeneralizations of bilingual children to determine whether the overgeneralizations of Spanish and English monolinguals would differ from those found in the speech samples of Spanish-English bilinguals and to reach a better understanding of speakers' preference for certain affixes and roots. (MES)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, English, Error Patterns
Apprendre l'orthographe avec un correcteur orthographique (Learning Spelling with a Spell-Checker?)?
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Desmarais, Lise – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1998
Reports a study with 27 adults, both native French-speakers and native English-speakers, on the effectiveness of using a spell-checker as the core element to teach French spelling. The method used authentic materials, individualized monitoring, screen and hard-copy text reading, and content sequencing based on errors. The approach generated…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Uses in Education, Error Patterns, French
Observations on the Second-Language Acquisition of the English Sound System.
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Piper, Terry – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1984
Results of a study of sound system acquisition of five-year-old students of English-as-a-second-language show that first- and second-language learners exhibit similar but not identical simplification processes, and that evidence for a common developmental sequence in acquisition of consonant sounds was limited. (MSE)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Consonants, English (Second Language)
The Effectiveness of Student Inquiry Skills.
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Terry, Robert M. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1989
In a French study based on Spanish research, the communicative effectiveness and grammatical accuracy of foreign language students in generating appropriate classroom questions was investigated. Despite language differences, similarities were found in communication errors, especially incorrect interrogative words and structures, verb tenses and…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Error Patterns, French, Inquiry
Le "Contexte": Aspects linguistiques et didactiques. ("Context": Linguistic and Didactic Aspects.)
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Cohen, Avraham – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1982
A study investigated the ability of socially handicapped Israeli students to determine a word's meaning from its linguistic context. The results and their implications for second language instruction are examined in light of current theories of context. (MSE)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Cultural Context, Decoding (Reading), Descriptive Linguistics
Competence linguistique et environnement social (Linguistic Competence and Social Environment).
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Laflamme, Simon; Berger, Jacques – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1988
A study found native French-speaking and native English-speaking university students had similar writing skill levels and error patterns despite their position as language-minority or language-majority members of society. It is concluded that language competency is not necessarily linked to language difficulty or to the position of the language.…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, English, Error Patterns