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Lauren, Ulla – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1987
Comparison of free written compositions of 86 bilingual (Finnish-Swedish) and 86 monolingual (Swedish) third-, sixth-, and ninth-graders in a Finland Swedish comprehensive school revealed that bilinguals produced significantly more syntactic, vocabulary, and phraseology errors. Background variables correlating with errors included the student's…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Correlation