Date:
May 1986
Page No.:
171
Writer(s):
Neville J. Saunders
Using data from a project involving 10 longitudinal
studies of adult Japanese learning English in Australia,
the development of the relative clause structure is
analysed. Five stages of development are detected.
Avoidance of specific types of relative clauses is
postulated, and the significance of the developmental
and interference explanations of learner difficulties
is discussed.
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