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Dai, Huiqin; Wen, Xu; Wen, Rui – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2022
Native speakers of English have a strong preference for transferred negation as opposed to non-transferred negation. The present study aims to examine whether young Chinese-speaking ESL learners have a target-like preference for transferred negation and whether they have a system-wide representation of transferred negation in their early English…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Native Speakers, Preferences, Morphemes
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Savic, Milica; Myrset, Anders; Economidou-Kogetsidis, Maria – Language Learning Journal, 2022
The present study explores the ways in which young EFL learners draw on lived experiences, viewed as interactional experiences in L1 or L2 which they have participated in or observed, to ground their metapragmatic understandings. Building on previous research with adult (e.g. McConachy 2018) and young learners (Savic 2021; Savic and Myrset 2021),…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Metalinguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning