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Lindholm, Kathryn J. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1987
Examines the process of question development in a second language. Shows that with greater English proficiency (1) there was less reliance on syntactically simple construction, (2) questions about personal information and actions and intentions questions increased, (3) requests for factual information and classification questions decreased. (SRT)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Research, Language Usage, Learning Processes