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Preferred term
contrastive analysis
Definition
- Contrastive analysis was developed in the mid-1940s as a hypothesis of second-language acquisition tied to a method for teaching languages. Proponents of contrastive analysis regard language as a conditioned response, a process derived from a behaviorist approach to learning. [Source: Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education; Contrastive Analysis]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/contrastive_analysis
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