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Direct linkClachar, Arlene – Language Learning, 2005
The study sought to examine the effect of lexical aspect and narrative discourse structure on the pattern of acquisition and use of English verbal morphology exhibited by creole-speaking students. Findings indicated that the emergent pattern of morphology in the creole participants' written interlanguage appeared to be influenced not only by…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Morphology (Languages), Interlanguage, English
Peer reviewedWhalen, Karen; Menard, Nathan – Language Learning, 1995
Compares the cognitive processing of 12 anglophone French students who wrote an argumentative text in their first language (English) and second language (L2) (French). Results indicate that the writers' strategic knowledge and capacity for meaningful multiple-level discourse processing explains the constraining effects of linguistic processing on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
