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Peer reviewedMeziani, Ahmed – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1980
In teaching the tense-aspect system of English to speakers of Moroccan Arabic (MA), the teacher should take into account the reinterpretation of MA categories into English ones, the learning of new categories, the redistribution of categories, and the learning of contrasts existing in English but underdifferentiated in MA. (JB)
Descriptors: Arabic, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Grammar
Peer reviewedMirhassani, Akbar – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1983
Examines some of the sounds that occur in English but not in Persian, and discusses ways to help Iranian students learn to pronounce these sounds correctly. (EKN)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Persian, Phonology
Peer reviewedAdeyanju, Thomas K. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1979
Demonstrates how Sector Analysis theory can serve as a model for the contrastive analysis of the grammars of any two languages. Examples are provided for English and Hausa. (AM)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Grammar, Hausa
Peer reviewedD'Eugenio, Antonio – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1977
This article concentrates on problems faced by Italians when learning the stress of English single, cognate, and compound words. (CHK)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Interference (Language), Intonation
Peer reviewedYarmohammadi, Lotfollah – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1973
Revised version of a paper presented at the Seminar on English Teaching in Iran, Tehran, April 1971. (DD)
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedKarpf, Annemarie; And Others – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1980
In combatting phonological interference in second language learning, attention should be paid to interference-producing aspects of the actual dialect that is the student's native language, rather than to the "standard" form of the language. (JB)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Interference (Language), Learning Processes
Peer reviewedYarmohammadi, Lotfollah – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1980
The syntactic distribution and behavior of five English and Persian "measure" nouns and their adjectives are compared. From this, errors attributable to transference and those due to inconsistencies in English are enumerated. A unified analytic model of Persian errors in learning English suggests useful teaching strategies. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
