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contrastive analysis  

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  • 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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