How Well Can Japanese ESL Students Draw Inferences from English Sentences?

One of the skills ESL (English as a Second Language) students must learn is the ability to draw inferences from English sentences. This study compares the ability of Japanese ESL students and that of native speakers of English to draw two types of inferences, namely presuppositions and entailments,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tomioka, Taeko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas 1985-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/497