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Peer reviewedWhite, Lydia – Applied Linguistics, 1987
Discusses several objections to Krashen's Input Hypothesis which states that language acquisition is the learners' understanding of a language at a stage slightly higher than their current one because of their understanding of extralinguistic cues of the language. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Child Language, Interference (Language), Interlanguage, Learning Theories
Download full textSelinker, Larry – 1988
Six papers on interlanguage are presented. The first, "Language Transfer," experimentally tests Robert Lado's contrastive analysis principles on the transfer of language skills to second language acquisition. The second paper, called "Interlanguage," builds on this work in discussing the structured nature of interlanguage and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Dittmar, Norbert, Ed.; And Others – 1978
Papers included in this volume are: "The Muted Voice of Immigrant Workers;""The Situation of Foreign Workers in Sweden"; "Situation of Foreign Workers in the Federal Republic of Germany"; "Teaching German to Immigrant Children"; "Using Language Typology in Contrastive Studies"; "On Determining…
Descriptors: Adults, Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Classification
Mathuna, Liam Mac; Singleton, David – 1984
Papers presented at the symposium on the relationship between language and culture include, in addition to an opening adress: "Sociosemiotics Across Cultures" (Wolfgang Kuhlwein); "Translation Across Languages or Across Cultures?" (Albrecht Neubert); "Grammatical Categories Across Cultures" (Olga Tomic); "On…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Children, Contrastive Linguistics
