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Richards, Jack C. – 1970
This is a discussion of another phase of bilingualism--structural difficulties in the target language of the student which impede his second language acquisition. The paper focuses on errors in learning English which do not derive from transfers from another language, and which cannot be predicted from contrastive analysis. These are intralingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Birch, Joan – 1975
The prenominal relative modifer construction (PREM) in German, while not a compulsory grammatical feature of the language, is a stylistic means of expression which native speakers use readily in non-casual speech and writing. Teaching the active use of this construction at the intermediate level of German study may be an effective means of helping…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English
Obrecht, Dean H. – 1971
This report contrasts the results of a rigidly specified, pattern-oriented approach to learning Spanish with an approach that emphasizes the origination of sentences by the learner in direct response to stimuli. Pretesting and posttesting statistics are presented and conclusions are discussed. The experimental method, which required the student to…
Descriptors: Colleges, Creativity, Educational Experiments, Generative Grammar