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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:19:21 EST
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- I think the Pavesi study was misrepresented. It basically showed that one
- learns the language that he/she is exposed to. The classroom learners in her
- study developed forms that were closer to the standard norm and had fewer
- fossilizations in areas such as repetition of the pronoun in the relative
- clause. There may be other problems with such studies as well since the
- populations which they compare are not of the same socio-economic class
- and educational background. There was a study done back in the mid-60s
- and which appeared , I believe, in Language Learning (Upshur or Briere?), was
- done at the University of Hawaii. In that study, students who were found
- to be at the same level of proficiency in ESL were randomly assigned
- either to an intensive ESL program or "turned loose" on campus to attend
- regular courses. They reconvened at the end of the semester and were tested
- and guess what?...
- Herb Seliger
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