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Chan, HuiPing; Verspoor, Marjolijn; Vahtrick, Louisa – Language Learning, 2015
Taking a dynamic usage-based perspective, this longitudinal case study compares the development of sentence complexity in speaking versus writing in two beginner Taiwanese learners of English (identical twins) in an extensive corpus consisting of 100 oral and 100 written texts of approximately 200 words produced by each twin over 8 months. Three…
Descriptors: Twins, Syntax, Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies
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Rau, D. Victoria; Chang, Hui-Huan Ann; Tarone, Elaine E. – Language Learning, 2009
This study investigates the production of the English interdental fricative [theta] by Chinese learners of English, using a variationist framework. Twenty-seven Chinese participants were asked to evaluate the acceptability of four possible substitutes for the variable (th) and to perform four oral production tasks. The results indicated that…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Languages