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Peer reviewedLynch, A. J. – ELT Journal, 1988
Summarizes some preliminary findings from research into the nature and effect of various discourse modifications by a native speaker to a language learner. These modifications include (1) idiom avoidance; (2) comprehension checks and pauses; and (3) selection of information. An informal experiment gauging foreign students' impression of…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Idioms
Faerch, Claus – 1978
This study focused on linguistic analyses used in the PIF Project (Project in Error Analysis, Interlanguage Studies and Contrastive Linguistics), an ongoing study of learner language and a project in foreign language pedagogy. For the project, 120 Danish learners of English were divided into 12 groups representing different Danish educational…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Difficulty Level
