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PDF pending restorationLujan, Marta; Liliana Minaya – 1981
Because of the syntactic differences between Spanish and Quechua, Quechua-speaking children must make major word order adjustments to learn the Peruvian Spanish taught in school. This study investigates whether the order or time sequence in which these changes are adopted reflects any general constraint, or is in any way predicted by a theory of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Child Language, Children, Language Research
Bolander, Maria – 1987
A study investigating favorable and unfavorable contexts for learning some word order rules in Swedish as a second language is reported. The rules examined are subject-verb inversion after a preposed non-subject in main clauses and the rules for placement of the negative particle. Subjects were 60 adult native speakers of Finnish, Polish, and…
Descriptors: Adults, Finnish, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
Paulsell, Patricia R. – 1991
A computer program is described that is a substack of the "Business German" HyperCard program previously developed by Paulsell and designed as a tutorial to be used with materials for a business German course on the third year college level. The program consists of six stacks, a central one providing graphics-based information on Germany…
Descriptors: Business Communication, College Second Language Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
