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Negotiation of Form, Recasts, and Explicit Correction in Relation to Error Types and Learner Repair in Immersion Classrooms.
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Lyster, Roy – Language Learning, 1998
Presents a study of the relationships among error types, feedback types, and immediate learner repair in four French immersion classrooms at the elementary level. The database is drawn from transcripts of audiotape recordings of 13 French language-arts lessons and 14 subject-matter lessons totaling 18.3 hours and including 921 error sequences.…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Elementary Education, Error Correction, Error Patterns
Assessing Instructional Needs with Language Experience Stories.
Ramsay, Janet K. – 1983
The level of mastery of selected language forms among English as a second language students in Botswana was investigated. Eighty-four pupils in the third to the sixth year of formal education provided oral English samples in unstructured formats involving language experience stories. The oral language of the pupils was analyzed to establish the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Form Classes (Languages)
Language Influences in the English Writing of Third- and Sixth-Grade Mexican-American Students.
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Cronnell, Bruce – Journal of Educational Research, 1985
An analysis of errors found in writing samples by elementary school Mexican-Americans is presented. This study focused on errors that may be caused by speech patterns and language usage. Results are discussed. (Author/DF)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Grade 3
Issues in Australian Immersion Research.
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de Courcy, Michele – 1998
This study evaluated a partial-immersion program in French in Victoria, Australia, an area in which little research has been conducted to date. The program has operated at an elementary school since 1991 and is the first English/French program of its kind in Victoria. French is the language of instruction for at least 40 percent of classes, with…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Error Patterns
Assessment of Second-Language Performance in Immersion Programs
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Spilka, Irene V. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1976
Studies are reported which attempt to discover the exact level of second language proficiency reached by students in second language immersion programs, with emphasis on analysis of error. (RM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Error Analysis (Language)
The Interlanguage Hypothesis Extended to Children
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Selinker, Larry – Language Learning, 1975
Data is presented in support of the assertion that the interlanguage hypothesis should be extended from adult second language acquisition settings to those non-simultaneous child language acquisition settings where the major sociolinguistic variable is the absence of peers who are native speakers of the target language. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Aspects of the Acquisition of the French Verb System by Young Speakers of English and French in Quebec and Ontario.
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Beniak, Edouard – 1984
Three studies are presented, each of which is a comparison of the acquisition of an aspect of the French verb system by three groups of speakers. The speakers are: young Anglophones learning French as a second language in an early French immersion program in Montreal; young monolingual Francophones attending elementary French language schools in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Children, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education