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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"interlanguage"”.
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Static Analyses of Interlanguage Interoperations
Software Developers are moving towards a multilingual development where they combine two languages in a single application to harness the strengths of each language. For example, performance-critical components of a Java application can be implemented in C language. It provides flexibility, at the …
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Interlanguage variability in verb tense/aspect
This thesis presents a study of interlanguage variability in the use of three tense/aspect forms: the simple present, simple past, and the present perfect. The need for research in this area comes from the problems encountered in the classroom. Language performance in one task sometimes does not …
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Past tense marking in Chinese-English interlanguage.
… concentrates on the past tense marking in the interlanguage (IL) of Chinese speakers of English. Following the assumptions of Hawkins & Lizska, (2003), it is assumed that unlike native speakers of English, Chinese speakers of English have a higher level of optionality within the past tense …
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Error analysis, interlanguage and second language reading strategies
Abstract not available.
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Variability in interlanguage phonology of Malaysian learners of English
… is a synchronic investigation of variability in interlanguage phonology of Malaysian learners of English. The study investigates patterns of style shifting in the speech performance of the Malaysian learners of English as they vary according to various stylistic environments i.e. verbal tasks …
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Interlanguage Pragmatics: Invitation Responses by Advanced Chinese Learners of English
<p>The use of specific speech acts have been found to vary with culture, thus to perform a speech act successfully in a second language requires not only linguistic competence but also pragmatic competence of the L2 community. Though previous studies have shown dissimilarities in invitational …
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Re-envisioning assessment of interlanguage pragmatic competence through computer-mediated communicative tasks
Assessment of second language (L2) pragmatic knowledge is still a new and understudied area of research. Some researchers (Hudson, Detmer, & Brown, 1992, 1995; Roever, 2006, Walters, 2007) have played an important role in advancing the field, but their theories have followed speech act framework …
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Interlanguage refusals : a cross-sectional study of Thai EFL learners' refusals in English
Using the speech act of refusals and formulaic language as focuses of analysis, this thesis aims to explore whether or not grammatical proficiency and development is distinct from pragmatic proficiency. The data were collected from 36 Thai EFL learners at three proficiency levels: low intermediate, …
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Competition between V₂ of RVC and Verb-Final Le in L2 Learners' Mandarin Interlanguage
This study aims to explore how English-speaking learners of Chinese acquire Resultative Verb Compounds (RVC). The specific research questions are: Do learners think that change of state is achieved by using an RVC? Do learners assign resultative meaning to V₁-le uniformly or only in certain types …
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English interlanguage of Palestinian University students in Gaza Strip : an analysis of relative clauses and verb tense
… formation and the coding of tense in the English interlanguage of thirty-two Palestinian students at the six colleges of the Islamic University of Gaza.Three composition topics were designed to elicit the learners' expression of the various English tenses and relative clauses.Findings: The data …
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Modeling second language learners' interlanguage and its variability: a computer-based dynamic assessment approach to distinguishing between errors and mistakes
Despite a long history, interlanguage variability research is a debatable topic as most paradigms do not distinguish between competence and performance. While interlanguage performance has been proven to be variable, determining whether interlanguage competence is exposed to random and/or …
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An Empirical Investigation of Russian Interlanguage at the Superior Level and the Perspective of the Educated Native Speaker
… and describe the nature of Superior–level interlanguage from the point of view of educated native speakers. Five members of the Moscow State University faculty listened to the oral proficiency interviews of six Superior–level speakers and commented on the interlanguage of those speakers. …
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The fundamental difference between child and adult language acquisition: a longitudinal, naturalistic study of parameter resetting in Swedish interlanguage
This study addresses the question of Universal Grammar availability in second language acquisition within the framework of Bley-Vroman’s Fundamental Difference Hypothesis, contributing new empirical evidence from learners of Swedish. Johnson and Newport (1989) showed a strong negative correlation …
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Mapping the Internalization of Parts of Speech in the Spoken Interlanguage of Adult American Learners of Russian from Level 1 to Level 3
… of control of parts of speech in the interlanguage development of American non-heritage adult learners of Russian. The data was collected from 47 recorded Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPIs) at the Intermediate Mid, Intermediate High, Advanced Low, Advanced Mid, Advanced High, and …
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L2 acquisition of Spanish telic se constructions
… English parameter to that of Spanish in their interlanguage grammar. Results indicate that L2 learners' responses to a picture interpretation task vary according to proficiency levels. Low-intermediate and intermediate learners did not differentiate between telic and atelic constructions …
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Language universals, language typology and L2 acquisition: A cross-sectional study of adult English speakers learning Chinese
… language typology, and markedness with interlanguage (IL) phenomena, specifically those relating to the process of acquiring Chinese as a second language. The central question addressed is whether or not a composite theory of universals and typological parameters can account for IL …
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Modified output in response to clarification requests and second language
… learner interactions, and as a manifestation of interlanguage development and psycholinguistic processing. The output hypothesis (Swain, 1985, 1993, 1995, 2005) claims that the act of production constitutes part of the process of L2 learning in terms of noticing, hypothesis testing and …
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The Speech Act of Complaint in English and in Russian and its Emergence in the Pragmatic Competence of Adult American Learners of Russian
… Within a framework of cross-cultural and interlanguage pragmatics, the dissertation identifies some of the key linguistic and cultural differences which can hamper effective communication between Americans and Russians and between L2 learners and RSs in complaint situations.</p> <p>The …
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