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Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2019
This study investigates the effect of Facebook on Arabic language attrition, i.e., decrease in language proficiency, as exhibited in the use of Colloquial instead of Standard Arabic, use of foreign words although Arabic equivalents exist, and committing spelling errors. A sample of Facebook posts and a corpus of spelling errors on Facebook were…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Language Proficiency, Language Usage, Code Switching (Language)
Ünal, Menderes; Yagci, Mustafa – Online Submission, 2014
The aim of the study is to identify students' misuse of language in the frame of information and communication technologies with their self-evaluation and determine the recommendations to find out ways to overcome misuse of the Turkish language. In the study, among the qualitative research methods the case study was used. University students were…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Language Usage, Turkish, Telecommunications
Segal, Denise E. – 1986
A study investigated the development of children's metalinguistic understanding of the meanings of two non-ostensive words beyond the usual semantic acquisition period. The words, whose meanings cannot be associated with an object by pointing, were "pain" and "pretend". Two specific questions were addressed: What types of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Patterns, Language Acquisition, Language Usage
Yorio, Carlos A. – 1980
This discussion of student output concentrates on reasons for learner's errors, types of errors, and some techniques for correcting them. An error is defined as an unintentional deviation from an expected pattern, which could be a linguistic form, a phonological or a grammatical rule, or an incorrect form or expression in a particular situation.…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Interlanguage, Language Usage, Postsecondary Education
Hsueh, F. S. – 1983
Common problems encountered in teaching Chinese that involve classical, intentional malapropisms (learned errors) are discussed. Three aspects unique to Chinese are addressed: (1) since Chinese writing is logographic, some malapropisms occur because of similar graphs; (2) since many expressions come from classical Chinese, and instruction in…
Descriptors: Chinese, Error Patterns, Higher Education, Language Usage
Dissosway, Patricia; Hartford, Beverly – 1984
The misuse and misunderstanding of adverbs by nonnative speakers of English are examined, and the approaches of commonly-used grammar texts to these problems are discussed. Two separate studies provide information for examining adverb use: a longitudinal study of the written work of 23 adult students in two low-to-intermediate level intensive…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adverbs, English (Second Language), Error Patterns
Kreuz, Roger J.; Roberts, Richard M. – 1989
The flow of normal conversation is often impeded by error. These errors can be divided into at least three categories: phonological, lexical, and pragmatic. A study was designed to assess whether different kinds of errors affect conversation in different ways. Forty-four subjects listened to tapes of conversations. Each conversation contained…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Irujo, Suzanne – 1984
A study of transfer of native language training and/or interference in learning English idioms had as its subjects 12 Venezuelan students in an American university who were advanced learners of English as a second language. Fifteen equivalent and commonly used English and Spanish idioms were used in tests of recognition, comprehension, recall, and…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Higher Education
Abraham, Roberta; And Others – 1994
A discussion of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teaching focuses on the relationship of lexical items to the syntactic situations in which they may occur, and the importance of teaching this relationship to language learners. First, common errors made by ESL students that are attributable to lack of syntactic context knowledge are identified.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Dictionaries, Educational Strategies, English (Second Language)
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Nakayama, Mineharu – Journal of Child Language, 1987
Sentences evoked from three- to five-year-olds (N=16), analyzed for errors (particularly copying-without-deletion), showed errors when: the subject noun phrase (NP) contained a relative clause, the relative clause had an object gap, and the relative clause was long. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Linde, Charlotte – 1975
Speech errors have been used in the construction of production models of the phonological and semantic components of language, and for a model of interactional processes. Errors also provide insight into how speakers plan discourse and syntactic structure,. Different types of discourse exhibit different types of error. The present data are taken…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Mitchell, Felicia – Online Submission, 2005
The purpose of this presentation is to encourage college teachers of writing, inside and outside Appalachia, to look at dialect-based errors in a more expansive way even as they help students to make better choices about standard usage. The discussion, which is presented within the context of a socio-cultural perspective on bias in perceptions of…
Descriptors: North American English, Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition, Writing Instruction
van Hoek, Karen; And Others – 1987
A study examined aspects of the acquisition of spatialized morphology and syntax in American Sign Language (ASL) learned natively by deaf children of deaf parents. Children aged 2 to 8 were shown story books to elicit narratives, and the resulting use of verbs contained morphological forms not appearing in adult grammar. Analysis of the creative…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, Children, Deafness
Ramos, Teresita V. – 1979
Very little research has been done on first or second language acquisition in the Philippines. Most second language learning studies cited in the literature concern acquisition of English in English-speaking communities, and most American studies of Filipino language acquisition are superficial, consisting primarily of morpheme analysis. The…
Descriptors: Children, Code Switching (Language), Discourse Analysis, Educational Policy