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Sajavaara, Kari – 1977
This paper reviews the history of contrastive analysis (CA) against the background of its objectives and its present problems and presents an outline of procedures which seem to be necessary to make the methods meet the objectives of applied CA. CA in the United States was closely connected with structuralism, which was an obvious cause for later…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Error Analysis (Language)
Faerch, Claus – 1978
This study focused on linguistic analyses used in the PIF Project (Project in Error Analysis, Interlanguage Studies and Contrastive Linguistics), an ongoing study of learner language and a project in foreign language pedagogy. For the project, 120 Danish learners of English were divided into 12 groups representing different Danish educational…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Difficulty Level