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Wattananukij, Wattana; Pongpairoj, Nattama – rEFLections, 2022
The research investigated pragmatic transfer in responses to English tag questions by L1 Thai learners based on Interlanguage Pragmatics, specifically pragmatic transfer (Kasper & Blum-Kulka, 1993). The L1 Thai learners were categorized into two groups according to their English proficiency levels: advanced and intermediate. Oral and written…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Chesnick, M. A.; And Others – 1992
This study investigated the development of oral metalinguistic abilities in 140 children (ages 5-12) with oral language or reading impairments. The study focused on determining the difficulties that children with these different types of problems have at different ages in the elementary school years and determining how metalinguistic abilities…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Developmental Stages, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education
Hedayet, Nagwa – 1990
A study investigated patterns in the apparent syntactic errors of native English-speaking, upper-level learners of Arabic as a foreign language. One hundred writing samples, including summaries, criticisms, and free composition, were gathered from a number of university courses. Error types analyzed included articles, subordinate clauses, two-word…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Arabic, Contrastive Linguistics, Difficulty Level