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Grammatical Errors Communication Breakdown.
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Tomiyana, Machiko – TESOL Quarterly, 1980
Investigates to what extent ESL learners' syntactic errors in written communication cause comprehension breakdown. The variables considered are the omission, insertion, and wrong choice of articles and connectors. Results indicated that errors concerning connectors cause communication breakdown more often than do errors in article usage. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Comprehension, Conjunctions, Determiners (Languages)