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Peer reviewedLaflamme, Simon; Berger, Jacques – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1988
A study found native French-speaking and native English-speaking university students had similar writing skill levels and error patterns despite their position as language-minority or language-majority members of society. It is concluded that language competency is not necessarily linked to language difficulty or to the position of the language.…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, English, Error Patterns
Direct linkClement, Richard; Baker, Susan C.; Josephson, Gordon; Noels, Kimberly A. – Human Communication Research, 2005
Research on media effects has documented the media's influence on beliefs and behavior while cross-cultural psychology has documented the effects of the language used in communication on identification with the ingroup and the outgroup. Media usage in the outgroup language should, therefore, affect identification patterns. This research…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Minority Groups, Linguistics, Acculturation
