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Studying The Language of Second Language Learners.

The document discusses various aspects of second language acquisition including the contrastive analysis hypothesis, grammatical morphemes like negation and questions, possessive determiners, relative clauses, reference to past events, and developmental sequences. It also mentions the influence of the first language and how syntax and morphology reveal universals in language.

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Studying The Language of Second Language Learners.

The document discusses various aspects of second language acquisition including the contrastive analysis hypothesis, grammatical morphemes like negation and questions, possessive determiners, relative clauses, reference to past events, and developmental sequences. It also mentions the influence of the first language and how syntax and morphology reveal universals in language.

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Contrastive analysis hypothesis (CAH), many errors can be explained

better in terms of leaners’ developing knowledge of the structure of


CAH: the target language rather than an attempt to transfer patterns of their
first language (Richards 1974).
The obligatory contexts for each morpheme, that is, the place in
Grammatical
a sentence where the morphemes necessary to make the
morphemes: sentence grammatically correct.
The acquisition of negative setences by second language lerners
Negation: follows a path that looks nearly identifical to thestages we saw In
Chapter 1 for first language acquisition.
Described a sequence in the acqusitions of questions by learners of
Questions: English from variety of first language backgrounds .

A developmental sequence for the English possessive forms `his’


and `her’ has been observed in the interlanguage of French- and
Possessive
Spanish-speaking leaners. In French and Spanish (and many other
determiners: languages), the correct form possessive determiner matches the
grammatical gender oh the object or person that is possessed.

Elements Second language first acquire relative clauses that refer to nouns in
Relative the subject and direct object positions, and only later (and in some
of clauses: cases, never) learn to use them to modify nouns in other sentence
roles (for example, indirect object and object preposition).
grammar:
Have observed the developing ability to use language to locate
Reference events in time. The research has shown that leaners from different
to past: first language backgrounds and acquiring a variety of second
language, acquire the language for referring to past events in a
similar pattern.
Movement We have seen in this section that, as in first acquisition, there
throught are systematic and predictable developmental sequences in
developmental second language acquisition.
sequences:
More One reason that some researchers rejected the hypothesis that
about first `transfer’ on ìnterference’ would best explain a learner’s difficulties
language with the target language was the fact that contrastive analysis was
influence: closely associated with behaviourist views of language acquisition.
Were drawn to syntax and morphology because of the way error
Vocabulary: patterns and developmental scquences of these features might
reveal something about universals in languages and language
acquisition.

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