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Accuracy Order in L2 Grammatical Morphemes: Corpus Evidence from Different Proficiency Levels of Turkish Learners of English
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Akbas, Erdem; Ölçü Dinçer, Zeynep – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
The present study empirically scrutinizes the fixed natural order of grammatical morphemes relying on a manual analysis of an EFL learner corpus. Specifically, we test whether the accuracy order of L2 grammatical morphemes in the case of L1 Turkish speakers of English deviates from Krashen's (1977) natural order and whether proficiency levels play…
Descriptors: Grammar, Morphemes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Multiple Language Acquisition: "Damn It, Why Can't I Keep These Two Languages Apart?"
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Selinker, Larry; Baumgartner-Cohen, Beatrice – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1995
Addresses the principles underlying the merging of interlanguages in multiple-language acquisition. The article claims that there is an "interlanguage logic" in multiple- language acquisition and that one can see the structure of the basic learning strategy in interlanguage creation: "interlingual identification." (seven…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Cognitive Development, College Students, Foreign Countries