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Peer reviewedGonzalez, Phillip C.; Elijah, David V. – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1979
In a study of developmental reading behaviors, errors of 75 Spanish-English bilingual students (grades 2-9) on the McLeod GAP Comprehension Test were categorized in an attempt to ascertain a pattern of language difficulties. Contrary to previous research, bilingual readers minimally used native language cues in reading second language materials.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Cloze Procedure, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textHammerly, Hector – 1975
Types of hierarchies of pronunciation difficulty are discussed, and a hierarchy based on contrastive analysis plus informal observation is proposed. This hierarchy is less one of initial difficulty than of error persistence. One feature of this hierarchy is that, because of lesser learner awareness and very limited functional load, errors…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Interference (Language)
LoCoco, Veronica Gonzalez-Mena – 1975
This study analyzes Spanish and German errors committed by adult native speakers of English enrolled in elementary and intermediate levels. Four written samples were collected for each target language, over a period of five months. Errors were categorized according to their possible source. Types of errors were ordered according to their…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Error Analysis (Language)
Bebout, Linda – 1975
The major purposes of the study reported on in this paper were as follows: (1) to compare the errors made by advanced learners of English as a native language (American nine- to eleven-year-olds) and as a foreign language (native Spanish-speaking adults); (2) to investigate the usefulness of a modified cloze test in obtaining errors for profitable…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comparative Testing, Contrastive Linguistics, English
Williams, George – 1972
The purpose of the investigation reported in this document is to determine the range of errors in the spontaneous speech of Puerto Rican children of intermediate English ability in order to provide specific information on phonetic and morphological deviations from standard English for use in curriculum development. The study first considers common…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Curriculum Development, Dialect Studies, Elementary School Students
Wigdorsky-Vogelsang, Leopoldo – 1978
This work is intended to find replies to practical questions, such as how well native speakers of Spanish are decoded by native speakers of English, which errors interfere with decoding by the listener, and what the implications of the study might be for teaching. Fifteen Chileans were asked to tell stories in English, and several panels of native…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comprehension, English, English (Second Language)
