Communicative Error Evaluation: A Study of American Native Speakers' Evaluations and Interpretations of Deviant Utterances Written by Arab Efl Learners

This study is an attempt to investigate American native speakers' evaluations and interpretations of grammatically and semantically deviant utterances written by Arab EFL learners and to establish communicative criteria that may be utilized in selective error correction and in the writing and sequencing of teaching materials. The purpose of this study is threefold: (1) to investigate the differences between judged intelligibility and naturalness; (2) to investigate the extent to which error type (grammatical or semantic) and immediate linguistic context affect the intelligibility, naturalness, and interpretability of deviant utterances; and (3) to provide a validation measure for judgments of intelligibility.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Linguistics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Khalil, Aziz M.

• Language, Linguistics

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8502202

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69823