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Download full textDulay, Heidi C.; Burt, Marina K. – 1972
The types of syntactic errors made by children learning a second language provide insight into the way in which children acquire the second language. The contrastive analysis hypothesis states that while the child is learning a second language, he will tend to use his native language structures in his second language speech; where there are…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Contrastive Linguistics, Educational Strategies
