This chapter presents the results of a study on interlanguage variation. The production of four L2 learners of Italian, tested four times at yearly intervals while engaged in four oral tasks, is compared to that of two native speakers, and analysed with quantitative CAF measures. Thus, time, task type, nativeness, as well as group vs. individual scores are the independent variables and complexity, accuracy, and fluency are the dependent ones. Results show how both L2 learners and native speakers display situational variation, but with clear differences amongst the two groups.
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The Song of Hiawatha is based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem written in 1855 and based on the hero Hiawatha and his lover Minehaha. The poem compiles the legends and folklore of the Objibwe and other Native American people and concludes with the arrival of the white man.
When I think of all the wild animals with which I've returned to America since I started bringing 'em back alive. I wonder why I haven't had many more anxious moments. I have had to make a study of such hard-boiled details of the collecting business as the best way to get a snarling tiger out of a pit into a cage without getting messed up in the process. How to transfer a murderous king cobra from a crude native container to a modern snake box, how to ... But perhaps it would be better if I told you some of my adventures.
