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The Linguistic Competence of Mono- and Bi-Lingual Pupils in Swedish in the Finland-Swedish School.

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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

Contrast and Construction in a Parameter-Setting Model of L2 Acquisition.

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Flynn, Suzanne – Language Learning, 1987

The parameter-setting model of universal grammar provides a basis for integrating two theories of second language acquisition: contrastive analysis and creative construction. The elicited responses of adult native speakers of Spanish and adult native speakers of Japanese were examined. The head-initial/head-final parameter was the principle…

Descriptors: Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English (Second Language)