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Larkin, Greg; Shook, Ron – 1978
An experiment on relative clause formation involving Cantonese students who were learning English was conducted. The study sought to determine whether sentence combining exercises would help Chinese students construct long relative clauses instead of the short relative clauses that exist in their first language. For the experimental group each…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language)
