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Akbas, Erdem; Ölçü Dinçer, Zeynep – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
The present study empirically scrutinizes the fixed natural order of grammatical morphemes relying on a manual analysis of an EFL learner corpus. Specifically, we test whether the accuracy order of L2 grammatical morphemes in the case of L1 Turkish speakers of English deviates from Krashen's (1977) natural order and whether proficiency levels play…
Descriptors: Grammar, Morphemes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Su, Jiajia – Second Language Research, 2019
This article reports on a study investigating the second language (L2) acquisition of the plural and human features in Mandarin Chinese by adult Korean speakers. Both plural and human features are represented in Korean and Chinese, but assembled in different ways. Forty-eight L2 learners at beginner, intermediate, and advanced Chinese proficiency…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Morphemes, Mandarin Chinese, Korean
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
Since most Saudi graduate students are not proficient in English, they are required to take an ESP course to enable them to read and comprehend reference material in English and translate the required information for their assignments and theses. Based on a needs assessment questionnaire and an English Proficiency Test results, an ESP course was…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Art Education, Morphemes, English for Special Purposes
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Okuyama, Yasuhiro – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2020
This study aims to analyze the use of tense and aspect in academic writing in engineering with a major focus on the use of simple past and present perfect. In general, one of the most difficult items for Japanese EFL learners is the appropriate use of tense and aspect. The previous literature pointed out that ESL learners are often confused about…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Verbs, Grammar, Second Language Learning
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Liter, Adam; Heffner, Christopher C.; Schmitt, Cristina – Language Learning and Development, 2017
We present an artificial language experiment investigating (i) how speakers of languages such as English with two-way obligatory distinctions between singular and plural learn a system where singular and plural are only optionally marked, and (ii) how learners extend their knowledge of the plural morpheme when under the scope of negation without…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Morphemes, Phonology, Language Acquisition
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Thane, Patrick D. – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2018
Early research on the Aspect Hypothesis yielded a rigid developmental sequence for the acquisition of grammatical aspect, in which developing L2 learners applied morphemes to mark aspect in accordance with the inherent lexical aspect of verbal prototypes. While studies from a variety of L2 backgrounds have amassed evidence for this hypothesis,…
Descriptors: Verbs, Linguistic Theory, Grammar, Second Language Learning
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Jaiprasong, Sawaros; Pongpairoj, Nattama – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2020
This research was aimed at investigating L1 Thai learners' English word stress production in two aspects of English words -- 1) English words with different suffixes: suffixes affecting stress shift, i.e. '-ic' (e.g. 'fantástic'), '-ity' (e.g. 'idéntity') and '-tion / -sion' (e.g. 'eléction') and suffixes demanding stress, i.e. '-oon' (e.g.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Thai
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Azaz, Mahmoud – Modern Language Journal, 2019
This study examines first language (L1) English transfer in the acquisition of plural noun semantics in second language (L2) Arabic. Drawing on previous research on the L2 acquisition of plural noun interpretation, the study presents and discusses new production data of specific and generic definite plurals by English-speaking learners of Arabic…
Descriptors: Native Language, Transfer of Training, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning
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Wu, Mien-Jen; Ionin, Tania – Second Language Research, 2022
This article investigates whether explicit instruction can affect second language (L2) competence in the domain of English quantifier scope. An intervention study was conducted with L1-Mandarin L2-English learners in order to examine (1) whether these learners can learn inverse scope for the structure on which they are instructed…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Generalization, Linguistic Competence
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Alzamil, Abdulrahman – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2021
English articles are thought to be complex, ambiguous and not salient in spoken language, which is why second language (L2) learners of English exhibit usage variability. Much of the L2 acquisition literature seems to agree that L2 learners are affected, one way or another, by their first language (L1). However, the debatable and controversial…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Semitic Languages, Nouns, Phrase Structure
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Lecouvet, Mathieu; Degand, Liesbeth; Suner, Ferran – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2021
The Bottleneck Hypothesis argues that properties of inflectional morphology explain why second-language learners may face persistent difficulties in articulating meaning in target-language forms. In particular, the acquisition task proves even harder when first and second languages differ in the way they organize the mapping of functional features…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, Native Language, Syntax
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Schimke, Sarah; Dimroth, Christine – Second Language Research, 2018
In this study, verb placement with respect to negation is investigated in elicited production and elicited sentence imitation data collected with child second language (L2) learners of German. These data are compared to published data from adult L2 learners, which were collected with the same elicitation materials and were re-analysed for the…
Descriptors: Verbs, German, Second Language Learning, Comparative Analysis
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Seo, Misun – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2019
This study investigated the influence of L1 allophonic rule, L1 segment articulation, and gender in Korean learners' production of English /s/ in two different contexts (i.e., before a high front vowel vs. elsewhere) and at three different proficiency levels in English (i.e., low vs. intermediate vs. high). The influence of the Korean allophonic…
Descriptors: Native Language, Korean, Gender Differences, English (Second Language)
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Zhang, Haomin – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019
The current study aimed to explore the effect of first language (L1) orthography on second language (L2) Chinese morphological awareness. One hundred and twenty-nine students (61 L1 English readers and 68 L1 Thai readers) who studied Chinese as a second language participated in this study. They completed four tasks of morphological awareness…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Chinese, Morphology (Languages)
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Gatlin-Nash, Brandy; Peña, Elizabeth D.; Bedore, Lisa M.; Simon-Cereijido, Gabriela; Iglesias, Aquiles – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study examined the use of African American English (AAE) among a group of young Latinx bilingual children and the accuracy of the English Morphosyntax subtest of the Bilingual English-Spanish Assessment (BESA) in classifying these children with and without developmental language disorder (DLD). Method: Children (N = 81) between the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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