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Peer reviewedPiper, Terry – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1984
Results of a study of sound system acquisition of five-year-old students of English-as-a-second-language show that first- and second-language learners exhibit similar but not identical simplification processes, and that evidence for a common developmental sequence in acquisition of consonant sounds was limited. (MSE)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Consonants, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedMorris, Lori – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2001
Spelling errors of 215 Grade 6 English-as-a-Second-Language learners were examined with a view to gaining an understanding of how these children construe and misconstrue the structure of their second language. It was found that unstressed grammatical function words proved particularly difficult for the learners to render in writing. They had…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Foreign Countries, Grade 6
