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Schmidt, Josef – Fremdsprachenunterricht, 1975
Refers to important articles from the 1973-74 volume of the Czechoslovak journal "Rusky jazyk." The linguistic portion deals with questions of conversational speech and stylistics. Relevant to teaching Russian are articles on FL teaching installations, factors leading to failure in language learning, and categorizing language errors.…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Failure, Foreign Language Periodicals, Language Instruction

Estes, Vallin D., Jr. – Unterrichtspraxis, 1973
Discusses the use of English for purposes of comparison and illustration in teaching German grammar. (RS)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Error Patterns, German
Mougeon, Raymond; Carroll, Suzanne – 1976
This study examines the usage of the auxiliaries "avoir" and "etre" in the passe compose and pluperfect. The study is primarily based on a sample of French written by agroup of grade 9 Franco-Ontarian pupils from the Sudbury region. The students' written French is shown to include a high proportion of cases where intransitive…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, French, Grammar, Language Instruction
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