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Peer reviewedSchachter, Jacqueline – Language Learning, 1974
Contrastive analysis a priori predicts facts of possible errors in learning a second language that contrastive analysis a posteriori cannot explain. In a study of relative clause formation, the latter approach shows that students have no trouble, whereas the former approach shows the task to be so difficult that they avoid it. (AG)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Error Patterns, Interference (Language)
Peer reviewedKhampang, Phon – Language Learning, 1974
Results of a diagnostic test revealed that Thai students have no more trouble in learning English prepositions than others learning English as a second language; all the groups had difficulty. Error analysis was found to be just as effective in explaining mistakes as contrastive analysis. (AG)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Peer reviewedOller, D. Kimbrough – Language Learning, 1974
It is argued here that childhood phonological errors systematically simplify the child's inventory of phonetic elements and strings. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
