DOCUMENT IRESUME ( ED 248. 722 (FL 014 578 I NU THOR Sajavaara, Kari, Ed. TITLE ,Q,Cross-Language'Analysis and Second Language Acquisition. Volume 14 Jyvaskyla Cross-Language Studies, No. .9. INSTITUTION Jyvaskyla Upiv. (Finland). Dept. of English. REPORT NO ISBN-0358-6464; ISBn-951-679-105-0 TUB DATE - Nov 83 ,NOTE 249p.; For the.coMpanion volume to this document,'see FL 014 579. PUB TYPE Reports,--Research/Technical '(143) Collected Works - General (020) ,` EDRS PRICE MF01/PCI0 Plitp Postage. DESCRIPTORS - Applied Linguistics; Children; Communicative Competence'(Languages); *ContrastiveLinguistics; Discourse Analysis; English; English (Seconds Language); Estonian; Finnish; Form Classes ,(Languages);' German; Grammar; Hungarian;.Idioms; Immigrants; Language Acquisition; *Language Research; *Language Usage; 'Language Variation; *Linguistic Theory; Psycholinguistics; *Research Pr6jects; Second Language Instruction; *Second, Language Learning; j Semantics; Testing;, Translation IDENTIFIERS Bulgaria; Finland; Germany ABSTRACT A collection of 17 papers, most presentedat the Fifth International Conferende on Contrastive Projects in June 1982 in Finland, includes: "Present Trends 1pcontrast/Ne Linguistici," "Contrastive Linguistics in Bulgaria,"-"Cbmmunicitive Competence in Foreign Language Teaching; A Project Reporti" "From Traditional Contrastive Linguistics, Towards a Commypicative Approach: Theory-and Applications'within the Finnish-English Crost-Language Project," "Estonian-English Cqntrastive Studies," "Report on the English-Hungarian*Contrastive LinguisticsPrOject," "A Plea for Contrastive Psycholinguistics", "Language Variation and the Death of O. Language Teaching," "Grammatical Models and ContrastiveAnalysis," -I. "Applied Contrastive Linguistics: In Search of a Framework", "Somp Psychological Aspects of Contrastive Pragmatics or-,In Search of "A Cpgnitiv Contrastive Analysis'of Social Idteraction (CCASI),"'"A Translation-Based Model of Contrastive Analysis," "Contrastive. Pragmatics and the Foreign Language Learner's Personality," "Immigrant Children in Germany: Their Grammatical Ablities in English as a Foreign Language," "UnderstandingIdioms in First and Second Language Acquisition: A Preliminapy Analysis," "The Learning of Coventional Syntagms by Finnish Comprehenbive School Pupils," and "On Simplifisation: Simple and Simplified Language in Examinatiod Papers."i(MSE) ********04***********************4*************************************,%. 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Pointe of view or opinions statedinthis docu- ment do not necessarily represent officialNIE position or pglicy. 4 Jyy'askylA Cross-Language Studies No 9 0 CROSS=LANGUAGE ANALYSIS AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Volume 1 edited by Kati Sajavaara Jyy Xs:ky14 1983 C 4 o 7 C) Department of English, 'University 'of 'Llyv4skyl;j . 1983 ; "1. ISBN 951-679-105-0 ISN,. 03586464 1 * '..PREFACE Most of the,,papers whichare 4ublished in Jyv'askyla Cross-Language Studles 9 and 10 were presented at the Fifth International ConWence on Contrastive Projects entitled "Cross- Language Analysis, and Second Language Acquisitioh". The conference was held at Jyvaskyla on June 1-5, 1982.-A number of the conference. papers have been published in a special issue on cross language' analysis and second language acquisition of Applied Linguistics (Volume 4, Number 3) and in Finlance: the Finnish Journal of Uanguage Learning and Language Teaching (Volum4 2). Both were published in\1983. Some of the papers included in the two volumes were not read at the conference; l'hey come from various contexts, eg. Finnish Summer Schools ofLinguistics,:,pr are based on research carried out in Jyvaskyla. Jyvaskyla K.S. November, 1983 A e CONTERTS r' Vplume9 Jacek Fisiak. PRESENT TRENDS 114 CONTRASTIVE a LINGUISTICS 9 Andrei DancheV CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS INBULGARIA 39 Gabriele Kasper COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE'TEACHING: A PROJECT REPORT 65 Jaakko kehtonen and FRON'TRADITIONAL CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS Kari Sajavaara TOWARDS A COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH: THEORY AND APPLICATIONSIWITHIN'THE FINNISH- , ENGLISH-CROSS-LANGUAGE PROJECT 81' Heino Liiv ESTONIAN-ENGLISH CONTRASTIVE' STUDIES 95 Eva H. Stephanides REPORT ON THE ENGLISH-HUNGARIAN CONTRAS- TIVE LINGUISTICS PROJECT 101 Hans W. Dechert A PLEA'FOR CONTRASTIVE PSYCHOLINGUISTICS 115 C.J..Brumfit LANGUAGE VARIATION AND THE DEATH OF LANGUAGE TEACHING 125 Olga Migeska romit GRAMMATICAL MDtLS AND CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS g 133 Jerzy Rubach APPLIED CONTRAUIVEILINGUISTICS: IN SEARCH OF A FRAMEWORK 141 Barbara Lewandowska- . SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CONTRAS- TOmaszczyk TIVE PRAGMATICS or IN SEARCH OF A COGNITIVE CONTRASTIVE ANALYSISOF SOCIAL INTERACTION (CCASI) 157 Vladimir Ivir A TRANSLATION-BASED MOOEL OF CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS 171 William T. Littlewood CONTRASTIVE PRAGMATICS ANO THE FOREIGN. LANGUAGE LEARNER'S PERSONALITY 179' Uda 0.H. Jung IMMIGRANT CHILDREN IN GERMANY:- THEIR GRAMMATICAL ABILITIES IN ENGLISH FOREIGN LANGUAGE 1M 1B9 Edna Aphek and ,UNDE DIPG IDIOMS IN FIRST AND SECOND Yishai Tobin' LANGUAGE CQUISITION: A'PRELIMINARY :ANALYSIS 203 Liisa SepOnen THE LEARNING ,OF CONVENTIONAL SYNTAGMS BY FINNISH COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL PUPILS.. 225 ON SIMPLIFICATION: SIMPLE AND SIMPLIFIED 'LANGUAGE IN EXAMINATION PAPERS. 241 OS a THE PAPERS IN VOLUME-10 (THE COMPANION VOLUME) Gloria Italiano SEARCHING FOR LINGUISiIC UNIVERSALS THROUGH Anzilotti CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS. M.N. Jdcelyne ORAL DISCOURSE AND CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS: TOWARDS Fernandez A FRENCH VS. FINNO- SCANDINAVIAN MODEL M. A1,Rufai CULTURAL EFFECT ON THE COMPREHENSIBILITY OF READING TEXTS Vesna Polovina THE APPLICATION OF SOME PARAMETERS OF TEXT- LINGUISTICSON CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS Horst Raa.be THE INFLUENCE OF THE FIRST LANGUAGE: AN ANALYSIS OF LEARNERS' QUESTIONS Anna-Brita Stenstrbm QUESTIONING STRATEGIES IN ENGLISH AND SWEDISH CONVERSATION Wies4aw Oleksy PRAGMATIC EQUIVALENCE IN CONTRASTIVE STUDIES: REQUESTS IN POLISH AND ENGLISH Marja-Kaisa Pihko GIVING AND GETTING DIRECTIONS: CROSS-LANGUAGE INTERACTION BETWEEN NATIVE AND FINNISH SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH Barbara Kryk A PRAGMATIC ACCOUNT OF PROPER NAMES IN ENGLISH AND POLISH Paul Robberecht And A FUNCTIONAL. MODEL FOR THE DESCRIPTION OF MarOeen-van Peteghem MODALITY CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS . Eltbigta Tabakowska PRAGMATIC ASPECTS OF DEFINITE DETERMINATION WITHOUT 'PRIOR MENTION' IN ENGLISH AND. POLISH L.A.°Barnes PREPOSITIONAL USAGE IN ENGLISH AND AFRIKAANS: DIFFERENCES IN'SPATIAL PERCEPTION Juhani Warn% REMARKS ON PRONOMINAL REFERENCE ANDDEFINITENESS IN FRENCH AND-FINNISH Aleksander Szwedek EMPHASIS AND ELLIPSIS Kalevi Tarvairien THE OBJECT IN GERMAN A ENGLISH ACCORDING TO DEPENDENCY GRAMMAR: A ONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS Aino Yogi ENGLISH LOANWORAIN ES IAN Hortensia PArlog ENGLISH LOANWORDS IN ROMANIAN Moira Linnarud ON LEXIS: THE SWEDISH LEARNER AND THENATIVE'' SPEAKER COMPARED- Christer PahrIsson THE SEMANTICS OF AVERAGE AND COMPETITOR: TWO INSTANCES OF DIZZYBUSINESS OBTBUSYDUZINESS Krista Varantola CHAIN COMPOUNDS :-;7 ANGLICISMS IN FINNISH? Taisto-MAttS ASPECTS OF PERCEPTION IN LEARNING SECOND LANGUAGE VOWEL QUALITY 3 . PRESENT TRENDS IN CONTRASTIVELINGUISTICS Jacel(Fisiak Adam Mipziovicz Unflowity Poznah ; Contrastive linguistic research has been goingon for decades now, with ups and'ns. incertiin parts of the world butsteadily developing in others.Although beset with numerous difficulties andprejudices and some of its fundamental concepts stillvague, it is far' from re- treating from the linguistic scene','On the contrary, three journals recently founded and devoted.exclusively to contrastivestudies (ie. Papeu and Sudiea in COntiwtive Linguiatia publishedin Poland . (since 1973), Soplabstovitanoezykoznariie/Contkaativelingui4tin Bulgaria (since 1975),,and Contu4 te.6 in France (since1981), serial publications of organized projects (eg: the YugoslavSerbo-Croatian- English and the Zagreb English-Serbo-Croatian Projects, Jyvaskyla - Contrastive (since 1979 Cross-Language) Studies, PAKS reports (until . 4 1974), Rumanian-English Contrastive Project publications,Hungarian- English Contrastive Project reports, publications oftheinstitute fUr Deutsche Sprache' in Mannheim-, etc.),numerous international contrastive tconferences (since 1975 one in the U.S.A.,one in Rumania, eight in Poland, one in the Feeeral Republic of Germany andone in Finland, to mention a few), sections on contrastive analysisat international cong- resses, numerous papers ori-the subject at variouslinguistic meetings and foremost a constantly growing body of publications (seebiblio- graphies by Sajavaara and Lehtonen 1975, 1981., 'Siegritt 1977,as well as bibliographies.Of some pairs of languages published in various jour- nals or collections of papers), all give but unambiguousevidence to a dynamic development of contrastive linguistics, this dynamism, howe'ver, can be observed more in Europe than in America, where much less of importance