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6 CAH (Other Versions)
6 CAH (Other Versions)
Hypothesis Versions
ENGL 440
The Weak Version
• As a reaction to the criticism of the strong version of the CAH,
Wardhaugh offered the ‘weak version’.
• The weak version does not imply the prior prediction of certain fine
degrees of difficulty.
• However, the strong version of the CAH would predict the contrary, i.e.
more difficulties on the part of the learners who had to acquire a new
writing system (Brown 1980).
Other Studies
• Brown (1980: 159) concludes that interference is more
likely to occur when there is similarity between the items
to be learned and already known items than in the case of
learning items which are entirely new to the learner.
After comparing the results of the test to the predictions based on the
four contrastive analyses, Whitman and Jackson found out that they
differed a lot.