Open Access
Learner English: a teacher's guide to interference and other problems / Michael Swan, Bernard Smith
Michael Swan
- 01 Jan 1992
- Vol. 1992, Iss: 1992, pp 1-99
TL;DR: Learner English as discussed by the authors is a reference book which compares the relevant features of the students' own languages with English, helping teachers to predict and understand the problems their students have, and is accompanied by a cassette with authentic examples of the various accents described in the book.
read more
Abstract: As a teacher of English as a foreign or second language, have you ever wished you knew more about your students' mother-tongues? Learner English is a practical reference book which compares the relevant features of the students' own languages with English, helping teachers to predict and understand the problems their students have. The nineteen chapters, each of which covers one language background, are written by specialists with experience in teaching students from the areas concerned. The chapters describe and explain the most important typical pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and other mistakes of learners who speak Dutch/Flemish, Scandinavian languages (except Finnish), German, French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Greek, Russian, Farsi, Arabic, Turkish, Indian languages, West African languages, Swahili, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai. The book is accompanied by a cassette with authentic examples of the various accents described in the book.
read more
Chat with Paper
AI Agents for this Paper
Find similar papers on Google Scholar, PubMed and Arxiv
Write a critical review of this paper
Analyze citations of this paper to find unaddressed research gaps
Citations
Second Language Comprehensibility Revisited: Investigating the Effects of Learner Background
TL;DR: The authors investigated first language (L1) effects on listener judgment of comprehensibility and accentedness in second-language (L2) speech and found that comprehensibility was associated with several linguistic variables (segmentals, prosody, fluency, lexis, grammar, and discourse).
An Exploratory Study into Trade-off Effects of Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency on Young Learners’ Oral Task Repetition
Evelyn Sample,Marije Michel +1 more
TL;DR: Bygate et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the relationship between the three dimensions of task performance: complexity, accuracy, and fluency, using Skehan's (2009) trade-off hypothesis as an explanatory framework.
Accent, listening assessment and the potential for a shared-L1 advantage: A DIF perspective
TL;DR: This paper investigated the potential for a shared-L1 advantage on an academic English listening test featuring speakers with L2 accents and found that Japanese L1 listeners were advantaged on a small number of items on the test featuring the Japanese-accented speaker, but these were balanced by items which favored no...
Does a Speaking Task Affect Second Language Comprehensibility
TL;DR: This article investigated task effects on listener perception of second language (L2) comprehensibility (ease of understanding) and found that both task and speakers' L1 play important roles in determining ease of understanding for the listener.
•Dissertation
Motivation among Learners of English in the Secondary Schools in the Eastern Coast of the UAE
Sulaiman Hasan H. Qashoa
- 01 Nov 2006
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the students' integrative and instrumental motivation for learning English in the UAE state secondary schools and found that difficulties with the subject (English) aspects such as vocabulary, structures and spelling were in the first place in terms of demotivating factors.
99
References
Current Issues in the Teaching of Grammar: An SLA Perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider eight key questions relating to grammar pedagogy in the light of findings from the study of how learners acquire a second language (SLA) and provide a statement of their own beliefs about grammar teaching.
•Book
Introducing Second Language Acquisition
Muriel Saville-Troike
- 19 Dec 2005
TL;DR: 1. introducing second language acquisition and 2. acquiring knowledge for L2 use and 3. L2 learning and teaching.
839
The Pronunciation Component in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a framework of three instructional practice modes: a dual-focus communicative program philosophy, learner goals, instructional objectives, and role of the learner.
Points of view and blind spots: ELF and SLA
TL;DR: The authors argued that mainstream SLA research can no longer afford to ignore the massive growth in the use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), highlighting the irrelevance for ELF of concepts such as interlanguage and fossilization, and explores the extent to which a number of alternative perspectives offer greater promise.
326