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A Direction for Contrastive Analysis: The Comparative Study of Developmental Sequences *
Author(s) -
Zobl Helmut
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
tesol quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.737
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1545-7249
pISSN - 0039-8322
DOI - 10.2307/3586790
Subject(s) - linguistics , contrastive analysis , psychology , sociology , philosophy
This paper compares developmental sequences for mature L2 structures with a view to determining influences of the learner's L1 on them. Two kinds of L1 influence are identified: the pace with which a sequence is traversed and the number of developmental structures in a sequence. The paper concludes with some tentative proposals concerning the interaction of prior L1 knowledge and the creative construction process.

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