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On Children's Comprehension of Synonymous Sentences

Green, Eugene – TESOL Quart, 1969

Tests on children between five and nine led to the conclusion that children's ability to recognize synonymous structures is progressively developed over a period of years and that there is a scale of difficulty involved. Paper presented at the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs Annual Conference, May 1969. (FWB)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingualism, Child Language, Comprehension

From Skill Acquisition to Language Control

Rivers, Wilga M. – TESOL Quart, 1969

Descriptors: Child Language, Concept Formation, Language Instruction, Language Learning Levels

Adding a Second Language

Prator, Clifford H. – TESOL Quart, 1969

This paper attempts to sum up, in non-technical terms, the essential differences between the acquisition of a first and a second language. It represents a conviction that a large number of the key concepts of TESOL can be drawn out of this type of comparison. The opening paper presented to the Pre-Convention Study Groups at the TESOL Convention,…

Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Cultural Background, English (Second Language)