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Boyd, Patricia A. – TESOL Quarterly, 1975
A detailed error analysis was performed on spontaneous and elicited speech samples of Anglo second graders learning Spanish. The results tended to disconfirm the L to the subpower of 1 = L to the subpower of 2 hypothesis that first and second language acquisition follow identical patterns. However, evidence suggests that genuine similarities do…
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Patterns, Grammar, Language Acquisition