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Peer reviewedKasper, Gabriele; Schmidt, Richard – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1996
Profiles interlanguage pragmatics as an area of inquiry in second-language acquisition (SLA) research by reviewing existing studies with a focus on learning, examining research findings in interlanguage pragmatics shedding light on basic questions in SLA, exploring cognitive and social-psychological theories illuminating aspects of pragmatic…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cross Sectional Studies, Developmental Stages
Download full textPickering, Michael – 1992
A case study investigated the emergence of language and language concepts in a bilingual child, a girl aged 16 months to 6 years, 7 months. Observations were made by the child's parents and relatives in the child's home where the mother spoke Finnish and the father English. The report summarizes developments in phonology, morphology, word-level…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Child Language, Concept Formation
Selinker, Larry – 1988
Six papers on interlanguage are presented. The first, "Language Transfer," experimentally tests Robert Lado's contrastive analysis principles on the transfer of language skills to second language acquisition. The second paper, called "Interlanguage," builds on this work in discussing the structured nature of interlanguage and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Pham, Lee – Journal of Educational Issues of Language Minority Students, 1994
Presents various viewpoints on dual language acquisition by children. These include native language foundation, first-language monolinguals' vocabulary development, second-language learning, simultaneous acquisition strategies, television as a source of language learning, functions of language in discourse, analysis of conversation, syntax and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography
Medina-Nguyen, Suzanne – 1978
A review of the literature on child language reveals little research on overgeneralization in the speech of the bilingual child. Questions arise regarding (1) the existence of interlingual overgeneralizations, and (2) the possibility that monolingual deviations and bilingual code switching might be forms of overgeneralization. Because a model for…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)
Gaies, Stephen J. – 1976
The language learner is activated by exposure to primary linguistic data in the target language, categorizes that data and deduces from it a system of rules or hypotheses. When the language acquisition process is successful, as is virtually always the case in first language acquisition, the learner's rule system corresponds to that of the speech…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Child Language, Discourse Analysis
