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Second Language Learners' Theories on the Use of English Articles: An Analysis of the Metalingusitic Knowledge Used by Japanese Students in Acquiring the English Article System.
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Butler, Yuko Goto – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2002
Addresses the difficulties second language learners have using articles properly by examining the metalinguistic knowledge of the English article system that learners employ when selecting articles in a given situation. Attempts to better understand the process of "making sense" of the English article system by learners who are at different stages…
Descriptors: Determiners (Languages), English (Second Language), Interlanguage, Japanese
The Structural Conformity Hypothesis and the Acquisition of Consonant Clusters in the Interlanguage of ESL Learners.
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Eckman, Fred R. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1991
Testing of the validity of two implicational universals regarding consonant clusters, involving the analysis of the interlanguage of native-speaking Chinese, Japanese, and Korean students of English-as-a-Second-Language, was strongly supportive of the two universals, suggesting the possibility that primary language universals hold also for…
Descriptors: Chinese, Consonants, English (Second Language), Interlanguage
On Predicting Phonological Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition.
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Eckman, Fred R. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1981
Discusses the amount of influence that a learner's native language has on the acquisition of a second language. Suggests that some important properties of a learner's interlanguage (IL) can be predicted, as shown by the different IL rules that Cantonese and Japanese use in dealing with English word-final voice contrasts. (Author/MES)
Descriptors: Cantonese, College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language)