Morphosyntactic issues in second language acquisition / edited by Danuta Gabryś-Barker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gabryś-Barker, Danuta.

Series:

Second language acquisition (Clevedon, England) ; 29.

Second language acquisition ; 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphosyntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Clevedon, UK ; Buffalo, NY : Multilingual Matters, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The volume consists of articles on issues relating to the morphosyntactic development of foreign language learners from different L1 backgrounds, in many cases involving languages which are typologically distant from English, such has Polish, Greek and Turkish. It highlights areas which may be expected to be especially transfer-prone at both the interlingual and intralingual levels. The articles in the first part report empirical studies on word morphology and sentence patterns and also look at the interface of lexis and grammar in the discourse and syntactic processing of foreign language learners. The second part elaborates on pedagogical issues concerning the acquisition of difficult grammatical features such as the English article system or the ‘s’ ending in the third person singular. It also comments more generally on the way pedagogic grammar functions in the learning of the L2.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Contributors

Preface

1. Focus Constructions and Language Transfer

2. Argument Realisation and Information Packaging in Tough- Movement Constructions: A Learner-Corpus-Based Investigation

3. L1 Syntactic Preferences of Polish Adolescents in Bilingual and Monolingual Education Programmes

4. MOGUL and Crosslinguistic Influence

5. Syntactic Processing in Multilingual Performance (A Case Study)

6. The Morphology -me in Modern Greek as L2: How German and Russian L2 Learners Interpret Verbal Constructions

7. Unaccusativity Marks

8. To Move or Not to Move: Acquisition of L2 English Syntactic Movement Parameter

9. Last to Acquire: On the Relation of Concession in Interpreting

10. Pragmatic (In)Competence in EFL Writing

11. The Role of Explicit Rule Presentation in Teaching English Articles to Polish Learners

12. The Effect of Corrective Feedback on the Acquisition of the English Third-Person -s Ending

13. The Acquisition of German Syntax by Polish Learners in Classroom Conditions

14. Introducing Language Interface in Pedagogical Grammar

15. Towards Reflecting the Dynamic Nature of Grammar in Foreign Language Instruction: Expectations and Current Pedagogic Practice

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786611878450

9781788920582

1788920589

9781281878458

1281878456

9781847690661

1847690661

OCLC:

276934482