Morphosyntactic Issues in Second Language Acquisition

✍ Scribed by Danuta Gabryś-Barker (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 278
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume examines different aspects of morphosyntactic development of bilingual language learners/users such as language transfer, syntactic processing, morphology and the pragmatics of language among others. The book explores the interface between research findings and pedagogy of foreign language teaching.

✦ Table of Contents

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