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Complement Constructions in English: Fairly Difficult for EFL Language Learners
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Fazeli, Fatemeh; Shokrpour, Nasrin – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2012
Complement constructions vary significantly in English and Persian. There are more complementation structures in English than in Persian and a complement structure in Persian might have more than one equivalent in English. Producing complement structures (CSs) in English is very difficult for native speakers of Persian, especially in an EFL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Indo European Languages
Interference Effects from Grammatically Unavailable Constituents during Sentence Processing
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Van Dyke, Julie A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2007
Evidence from 3 experiments reveals interference effects from structural relationships that are inconsistent with any grammatical parse of the perceived input. Processing disruption was observed when items occurring between a head and a dependent overlapped with either (or both) syntactic or semantic features of the dependent. Effects of syntactic…
Descriptors: Interference (Language), Semantics, Comprehension, Sentence Structure
Implications of Error Analysis for Second/Foreign Language Acquisition.
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Ghadessy, Mohsen – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1980
Discusses the results of an error analysis of 100 English compositions written by university students in Iran. It is suggested that mistakes are not primarily due to interference from the native language, but to developmental errors, similar to errors made in first language acquisition. (Author/AMH)
Descriptors: Adults, Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns