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Peer reviewedGatbonton, Elizabeth – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1978
A report on a study exploring the relationship between observed variability in second-language speech and the process in which correct variants are acquired and incorrect ones are replaced. Three phonological variables in the English speech of French-Canadian second-language speakers in Montreal were investigated. The method, results and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Language Patterns, Language Research
Schwartz, Joan – 1977
Conversations between adult students of English as a second language were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed in order to establish principles of extralinguistic conversational repair technique among second language learners. A variety of gestural and kinesic features were discovered; these are described in detail and their use is contextualized…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Body Language, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedSheen, Ronald – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1980
Discusses the literature on interference as the cause of errors in second language speech. A study is reported which shows that interference by the native language is most often the factor responsible for the largest number of mistakes in grammar and vocabulary. (Author/AMH)
Descriptors: Adults, Bilingualism, Discourse Analysis, Error Analysis (Language)
