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Peer reviewedWilliams, Robert S. – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1994
Explores the phenomenon of post verbal alternation in English double object constructions and presents a statistical model for predicting the position of the indirect object in instances where alternation is unconstrained. The study includes analysis of a large set of written and oral American English data using a parametric multiple regression…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Grammar, Models, North American English
Peer reviewedOsburne, Andrea G.; Mulling, Sylvia – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1994
Presents a survey of English-as-a-Second-Language students (n=142) for their preferences of writing prompt on essay tests and for other factors relating to their choices such as perceived difficulty of a topic. Findings reveal that these students, while not alert to potentially helpful syntactic clues in prompts, are probably using appropriate…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Students, Cues, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedLeech, David – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1994
Presents an analytic foundation of English-as-a-Second-Language pedagogical research and application extending beyond the traditional "superficial" categories of morphosyntactic rule violations and false cognates. The study focuses on lexical-semantics, syntax, text-analysis, and pragmatics, and synthesizes major categories of…
Descriptors: Context Effect, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Interlanguage
