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Irujo, Suzanne – IRAL, 1993
Fluent Spanish-English bilinguals were asked to translate passages containing idioms into everyday conversational English. Results confirmed the use of knowledge of English to produce many idioms and the production of more idioms that were identical in both languages. (Contains 20 references.) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, English, Error Analysis (Language)
