Morphosyntactic Issues in Second Language Acquisition / / ed. by Danuta Gabryś-Barker.

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 expec...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2008]
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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Second Language Acquisition
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Physical Description:1 online resource (250 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • Part 1: Studies on ESL/EFL Morphosyntactic Development
  • 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
  • Part 2: Pedagogical Grammar in Promoting Acquisition of L2 Morphosyntax
  • 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