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Acquisition of Direct and Indirect Wh-Questions.
Cherubini, Nicoletta – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1988
A study examined lexical specificity, the occurrence of pragmatic information, and a syntactic aspect (presence or absence of inversion) of the acquisition of both indirect and direct wh-questions in children aged five through eight years. (MSE)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Language Acquisition, Patterned Responses
A Cross-Sectional Study of the Ability of Italian Secondary-School Students to Subordinate in English.
Di Nicuolo, S. – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1988
A study investigated the ability of 75 Italian secondary school students to subordinate in English. The students were learning English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) through formal instruction. The differences in learning a foreign language in formal versus informal situations are discussed, and a study of two adult Italians learning ESL informally is…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, High Schools
Struttura del messaggio e comprensione globale del discorso orale come processo di sintetizzazione (Structure of the Message and Global Understanding of Oral Discourse as a Synthesizing Process).
Titone, Renzo – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1986
Attempts to distinguish the role of the structure of a message in determining the different modalities of decodification and memorization in oral discourse based on the theories and experiments of Ragnar Rommetveit of the Oslo School. (CFM)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis, Language Processing, Listening Comprehension