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Direct linkPfenninger, Simone E. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2014
This paper analyses the use of periphrastic "do" in negative declaratives and non-negative questions with inversion by 200 Swiss and 30 German middle-school students of the same age but with different onsets of learning English and consequently a different amount of foreign language instructions. "Do"-support shows evidence of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, German, Native Language
Rast, Rebekah – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2010
This paper examines cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition relative to language typology, psychotypology and proficiency level. In particular, it observes how learners make use of their background languages when faced with a language they know little to nothing about. The participants, native French speakers with English as a…
Descriptors: Sentences, Intervals, Second Language Learning, Language Classification
Download full textJiang, Zhao-zi; Shao, Chang-zhong – Online Submission, 2006
This paper focuses on the study of markedness theory in Universal Grammar (UG) and its implications in Second Language Acquisition (SLA), showing that the language learners should consciously compare and contrast the similarities and differences between his native language and target language, which will facilitate their learning. (Contains 2…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Language Classification
