ESL Placement Test (ACCUPLACER ESL)

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An ESL teacher, Mr. Chen, notices that his intermediate student, Maria, often says things like, 'I goed to the store yesterday.' Although she has been taught the correct past tense of 'go,' she consistently uses the '-ed' suffix, a common pattern for regular past tense verbs in English. This is an example of which concept in second language acquisition?
Correct Answer:
Overgeneralization

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