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Peer reviewedHughes, Arthur; Lascaratou, Chryssoula – English Language Teaching Journal, 1982
Presents study in which native-speaker teachers of English, Greek teachers of English, and English native-speakers who were not teachers judged seriousness of errors made by Greek-speaking students of English in their last year of high school. Results show native English speakers were more lenient than Greek teachers, and three groups differed in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Greek Americans
Peer reviewedUtley, D. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1975
Minimal pairs as at present used in the ESL classroom are uncontextualized bits of language that are of little use to the ESL teacher. An alternative, minimal sentences, is described here. Minimal sentences give context and meaning to the sound contrasts. (RM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Phonology
Peer reviewedJohansson, Stig – English Language Teaching Journal, 1975
The limitations of both methods, and their practical applications, are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Educational Theories, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedDenham, Patricia A. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1974
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Auditory Discrimination, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedAziz, Yowell Y. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1974
Descriptors: Arabic, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedYarmohammadi, Lotfollah – English Language Teaching Journal, 1974
A language-specific test-item is one which includes a distractor which is a predictable mistake made by Persian speakers, and determined by syntactic and lexical contrastive analysis of Persian and English. The term 'universal' is used for a test-item which does not contain contrastive distractors as defined here. (Author)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Language Tests
