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Ana Espírito Santo; Nélia Alexandre; Sílvia Perpiñán – Second Language Research, 2024
This article reports on an experimental study on the acquisition of prepositional relative clauses in second language European Portuguese by Chinese native speakers. It focuses on the role of resumption, mandatory in prepositional relative clauses in Chinese (the native language of the learners) and non-conventional in European Portuguese (the…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Bayyurt, Yasemin; Kurt, Yavuz; Öztekin, Elifcan; Guerra, Luis; Cavalheiro, Lili; Pereira, Ricardo – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2019
Today English has become the Lingua Franca or common language of many people, regardless of their being native or nonnative speaker of English all over the world. Therefore, it has become necessary to educate pre-/in-service teachers with an awareness towards the significance of the involvement of an "English as a lingua franca" (ELF)…
Descriptors: Official Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods