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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"L1 influence"”.
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L1 influence on English word meaning inference
… Ramirez et al., 2011) have found that learners’ L1 may influence the performance; however, their participants’ L1 and proficiency levels were not carefully controlled, and they mainly used qualitative or classroom-based methods. Therefore, this study compared the word learning ability between …
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Does L1 transfer influence Chinese speakers' intuition of adjective ordering in English
"L1 influence on second language acquisition has been shown by linguists in many areas. This study is to look into the L1 influence on English adjective ordering among Chinese ESL learners. We hypothesized that if there was a certain adjective ordering ""rule"" existing in both Chinese and English, …
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The Acquisition of Morphosyntactic Properties of English Compounding and Transitivity Alternations by L1 Speakers of Libyan Arabic
… which properties of a speaker’s first language (L1) transfer into their L2 mental grammars, the extent to which L2 learners’ mental grammars are constrained by an innate language faculty (Universal Grammar (UG)), and the nature of the development of grammatical knowledge. Much of the evidence …
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Individual variation and the role of L1 in the L2 development of English grammatical morphemes: insights from learner corpora
… variation and the role of native language (L1) in second language (L2) development of English grammatical morphemes and explain the findings with existing SLA theories. The dissertation investigates the L2 development of morphemes based on two largescale learner corpora. It first reviews the …
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The syntax-pragmatics interface in L2 : aspects of information structure teaching and learning in a Saudi ESL context
… Although some factors such as first language (L1) influence, typological universals and markedness can affect use of L2 pragmalinguistic structures (information structure), this study provides evidence that Saudi learners can acquire these structures through awareness. The findings highlight …
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Marking time : the acquisition of tense and grammatical aspect by French-speaking learners of English
… N = 91) were designed to explore the relative influences of lexical asp aspect and first language (L1) knowledge on the second language (L2) acquisition of verb morphology. The participants were adult French-speaking learners of English who represented a wide range of proficiency in their …
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The role of the native language in second-language syntactic processing
… in how properties of a reader’s first language (L1) have an influence on syntactic processing in a second language (L2). While the Competition Model (Bates & MacWhinney, 1982, 1987, 1989, MacWhinney, 1997) predicts that syntactic properties of the L1 can have an influence on L2 processing, the …
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Acquisition of English morphosyntax : evidence from a Chinese-speaking child
… L2 (cL2) acquisition with child first language (cL1) and adult L2 (aL2) acquisition in the domains of morphology and syntax. On the observation that attainment in cL2 is superior to aL2, Schwartz (1992, 2003a, 2003b, 2004) proposes the “Domain by Age Model (DAM)” , arguing that in the realm of …
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The acquisition of finiteness in English by child second language learners in instructed contexts: age of onset and L1 effects
… the age of onset and the role of the learners’ L1 on their L2 acquisition. Following Meisel’s hypothesis that children older than 4 will resemble adult L2 acquisition in the domain of inflectional morphology, I investigated how two groups of children of different L1s and older than 4 learn the …
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Comparing the Receptive Vocabulary Knowledge of Intermediate-level Students of Different Native languages in an Intensive English Program
… by 900 word families per student. First language influence was also investigated by comparing the largest two language groups in the sample, Arabic (N= 28) and Spanish (N=12). Spanish-speaking students significantly outperformed the Arabic speaking students in all vocabulary measures (except for …