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Islam, A. K. M. Mazharul – Online Submission, 2011
This study has investigated the interlanguage features in spoken language of four foreigner learners of Bangla. Data has been collected through interviews which were recorded and analyzed. The analysis of the respondents' language has been made in terms of phonetic, morphological and syntactic aspects. The language deviations may be attributed to…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Indo European Languages, Language Processing, Interference (Language)
Granado, Elvalicia – Online Submission, 2007
The study investigated the ability of 10-month-old infants, from monolingual English speaking environments, to categorize comforting and approving infant-directed speech (IDS) utterances across languages. Infants participated in an infant-controlled habituation procedure, in which they heard up to 12 different exemplars, in 12 different languages,…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Infants, Monolingualism, Habituation
Fischer, Ruth Emily – 1982
An error analysis of the oral production of Korean adults learning English was performed on informant speech samples, using Corder's Algorithm for providing data for description of idiosyncratic dialects as a guide for determing error. The procedures of error analysis and morpheme acquisition studies were combined to address the following…
Descriptors: Adults, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Interlanguage
Burckett-Evans, Jenifer – 1980
Productive errors in the Spanish of 3 Spanish-speaking children and 115 adults learning Spanish as a second language are analyzed. The errors are organized into three categories--lexical, morphological, and syntactic--and each category is further divided according to the type of cognitive error-processing strategy shown: simplification, reduction…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Error Analysis (Language)
de Lorenzo, Kathryn Brue – 1980
This study investigates whether Mexican Americans have a different cerebral specialization for native language than for second language as measured by visual shift. The possibility of a different cerebral arrangement for each language has implications for educators. The relation between cerebral arrangement and cognitive style entails…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Cerebral Dominance
Tsagari, Constance – 1994
This study investigated and compared the effects of two test formats (free response and multiple choice) on English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners' reading comprehension. The tests, together with a checklist of test-taking strategies and retrospective questionnaires concerning more general reading strategies, were administered to 57 ESL…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Processing