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ERIC Number: EJ164489
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1977
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Avoidance Behavior in Adult Second Language Acquisition
Kleinmann, Howard H.
Language Learning, 27, 1, 93-107, Jun 77
A study was designed to ascertain whether syntactic avoidance behavior could be demonstrated for two groups of ESL learners (native speakers of Arabic and of Spanish and Portuguese) in accordance with contrastive analysis difficulty predictions. An avoidance pattern was found in accordance with such predictions. (CHK)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Interference (Language), Language Patterns, Language Usage, Learning Problems, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Learning
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Identifiers: Avoidance Behavior