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The Influence of Swedish on the English of Finnish Learners.

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Ringbom, Hakan – 1985

A study of the effects of learning Swedish as a third language on the previously-learned English of native Finnish-speaking students examined 10,000 English-language school-leaving examinations of Finnish students for possible examples of Swedish influence in vocabulary, grammar, and word order. The examinations were those graded by a native…

Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Finnish