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Eisenstein, Miriam – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1983
Recent research on native speakers' reactions to nonnative speech that views listeners, speakers, and language from a variety of perspectives using both objective and subjective research paradigms is reviewed. Studies of error gravity, relative intelligibility of language samples, the role of accent, speakers' characteristics, and context in which…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Intonation, Language Attitudes, Language Proficiency
High, Virginia Lacastro – 1978
Errors can be considered concrete representations of stages through which one must go in order to acquire one's native language and a second language. It has been discovered that certain errors appear systematically, revealing an approximate system, or "interlanguage," behind the erroneous utterances. Present research in second language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns