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On Errors Made by Finnish-Speaking and Swedish-Speaking University Students in Oral Production in French.

Elo, Anja – 1985

A study of the interlanguage of bilinguals and multilinguals compared the oral French proficiency of 20 native Swedish-speaking and 20 Finnish-speaking university students as evidenced in error patterns in oral tests. With the exception of phonological and phonetic errors in pronunciation, errors were classified by word class (article, noun,…

Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns

A Study of the Statistical Foundations of Group Conversation Tests in Spoken English.

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Liski, Erkki; Puntanen, Simo – Language Learning, 1983

Analysis of error patterns in a test taken by 698 Finnish university students shows errors are made in this declining order of frequency: grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, and use. More talkative students were proportionately more proficient per utterance, and higher proficiency also correlated with sex (female) and high matriculation test…

Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Second Language Programs, English (Second Language), Error Patterns