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Toward Assessing Interlanguage Performance: The Relationship between Selected Errors, Learners' Characteristics, and Learners' Explanations
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Cohen, Andrew D.; Robbins, Margaret – Language Learning, 1976
A study of certain aspects of second language learning among three university students, all in an advanced ESL class at UCLA. An error analysis of written verb forms was undertaken. An examination of correction revealed that it was neither systematic nor enlightened enough to actually influence error production. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Topic-Prominence and Subject-Prominence in L2 Acquisition: Evidence of English-to-Chinese Typological Transfer.
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Jin, Hong Gang – Language Learning, 1994
Investigated whether topic-prominence transfer is a universal developmental stage or a transferable typology by analyzing the behavior of 46 native speakers of English learning Chinese, a subject-prominence (SP) language, as a second language. Results found that the learners displayed a process of systematically transferring English SP features to…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Distinctive Features (Language), English
The Ontogeny Model: Evidence from L2 Acquisition of Spanish.
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Major, Roy C. – Language Learning, 1986
Testing of a second-language phonological acquisition model with four beginning learners of Spanish supported the claim that transfer processes decrease over time while developmental processes increase and then decrease. Analysis also revealed a hierarchical organization of processes in second-language acquisition and an interaction of the native…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), College Students, Distinctive Features (Language), Higher Education