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Taylor, Barry P. – Language Learning, 1975
In a test administered to Spanish-speaking students of English as a second language at the elementary and intermediate levels, the results indicated the subjects' reliance on the strategies of overgeneralization and transfer was qualitatively different. Implications of the results are discussed. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns

Selinker, Larry – Language Learning, 1975
Data is presented in support of the assertion that the interlanguage hypothesis should be extended from adult second language acquisition settings to those non-simultaneous child language acquisition settings where the major sociolinguistic variable is the absence of peers who are native speakers of the target language. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns