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The Importance of Negative Transfer in the Speech of Near-Bilinguals.
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Sheen, Ronald – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1980
Discusses the literature on interference as the cause of errors in second language speech. A study is reported which shows that interference by the native language is most often the factor responsible for the largest number of mistakes in grammar and vocabulary. (Author/AMH)
Descriptors: Adults, Bilingualism, Discourse Analysis, Error Analysis (Language)