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Baten, Kristof; Håkansson, Gisela – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2015
In this article, we aim to contribute to the debate about the use of subordination as a measure of language proficiency. We compare two theories of SLA--specifically, processability theory (PT; Pienemann, 1998) and dynamic systems theory (DST; de Bot, Lowie, & Verspoor, 2007)--and, more particularly, how they address the development of…
Descriptors: German, Swedish, Second Language Learning, Grammar
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Bartning, Inge; Hammarberg, Bjorn – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2007
This cross-linguistic study investigates the functionality and use of one particular linguistic collocation in each of two languages, viz. the French c'est and the Swedish det ar, both meaning "it is." The data are drawn from conversational speech production by adult native speakers and second language learners. The investigation shows that these…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Second Language Learning, French, Native Speakers
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Abrahamsson, Niclas – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
This study deals with the development and recoverability of word-final codas in Chinese-Swedish interlanguage. The relation between consonant deletion and vowel epenthesis is investigated from both a developmental perspective and a grammatical-functional one. Longitudinal, conversational data from three Chinese beginner learners of Swedish were…
Descriptors: Validity, Language Proficiency, Swedish, Uncommonly Taught Languages
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 1985
This issue of the journal includes these papers on contrastive linguistics: "Contrastive Patholinguistics: The Acquisition of English Grammatical Morphemes by German Dyslexics in a Foreign-Language Teaching Context" (Udo O. H. Jung); "Contrastive Pragmatics" (Marie-Louise Liebe-Harkort); "On Questions in English and Swedish" (Kay Wikberg); "On…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dyslexia, English, German
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
Andersen, Roger, Ed. – 1984
A collection of studies of second language acquisition in Swedish, Dutch, Spanish, French, German, and English is presented using a cross-linguistic perspective. The following topics are covered: (1) cross-linguistic first language perspectives on second language acquisition research; (2) use of typological markedness conditions in Swedish as…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Age Differences, Children, Comparative Analysis