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Peer reviewedPerkins, Kyle; And Others – Language Learning, 1986
To estimate reading difficulty of items on a sentence repetition task, a study had 50 adult English as a second language (ESL) students repeat each of 26 sentences immediately after two presentations. High-difficulty items were derivationally more complex than low-difficulty items, and the most difficult items involved the processing of…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Comparative Testing, Difficulty Level, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedHansen, Lynne – Language Learning, 1986
The performance of native and nonnative Hindi-Urdu speaking children (N=131) and adults (N=30) in the comprehension of the Hindi-Urdu correlative constructions was analyzed. Results indicated that Hindi-Urdu correlative constructs are acquired relatively late by both native and nonnative speakers, suggesting that language universals are available…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Comparative Testing
