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Stansfield, Charles – System, 1976
A brief summary of this conference, focussing on foreign and second language testing, is given. Topics covered include: publishers' tests, semantic aspects of error analysis, factor analysis and language proficiency, learning style identification, the foreign language placement test of the U.S.A.F. Academy, assessment of language dominance, and…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Factor Analysis, Language Instruction
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Gelman, Susan A.; Croft, William; Fu, Panfang; Clausner, Timothy; Gottfried, Gail – Journal of Child Language, 1998
Examined how object shape, taxonomic relatedness, and prior lexical knowledge influenced children's overextensions (e.g., referring to pomegranates as apples). Researchers presented items that disentangled the three factors and used a novel comprehension task where children could indicate negative exemplars. Error patterns differed by task and by…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Classification, Error Analysis (Language)
Kellerman, Eric – 1974
This paper proposes a broader and more rigorous approach to the analysis of errors produced by second language learners. As a supplement to longitudinal studies, a procedure called "lateralisation" is advocated as a way of providing the researcher with more data than is normally available through examination of learner text alone. In…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Educational Diagnosis, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
LoCoco, Veronica Gonzalez-Mena – 1976
Three methods for second language data collection are compared: free composition, picture description and translation. The comparison is based on percentage of errors in a grammatical category and in a source category. Most results obtained from the free compositions and picture descriptions tended to be similar. Greater variation was found for…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Testing, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns