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Download full textSajavaara, Kari; Lehtonen, Jaakko – 1978
A project designed to gather information about similarities and differences that may be important for teaching English to Finnish learners, and, to a certain extent, for teaching Finnish through English, was conducted through a systematic comparison of the two languages and an analysis of instances where the two languages come into contact. In the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
Harada, Kazuko I. – 1977
The development of production and comprehension by one two-year-old girl of three Japanese constructions (passives, causatives, and "te moraw"), which have similar surface configurations "NP ga NP ni V ("rare"/ "sase"/ "te moraw") TENSE," is investigated through elicited imitations and responses to the investigator's questions about the content of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Deep Structure, Error Analysis (Language)
Brownscombe, E. Carol – 1977
Little has been done to test or describe reading strategies of second language learners. The study reported in this paper was an attempt to begin to investigate the nature of perceptual strategies which second language learners employ when reading certain English structures, and to ask the question of whether second language learners, when…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
