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Nuria Haristiani; Devy Christinawati – International Journal of Language Education, 2024
While acquiring a second language, learners may encounter challenges and difficulties in effectively carrying out verbal communication in the second language. Mastering the apology speech act is a challenge for L2 learners. The objective of this study is to identify the apology strategies utilized by individuals learning the Japanese language, as…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Pragmatics, Error Analysis (Language), Second Language Learning
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Yossatorn, Yossiri; Binali, Theerapong; Chokthawikit, Sirisira; Weng, Cathy – SAGE Open, 2022
The English past counterfactuality is difficult for non-native learners to learn and understand due to cross-language discrepancies. Oftentimes, individuals unavoidably develop the interlanguage and this language system becomes fossilized regardless of the amount of exposed time and input. The purpose of the study was twofold: (a) to examine 126…
Descriptors: Grammar, Translation, Teaching Methods, Interlanguage
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González, Ruth Carolina Betancourt; Martínez, Elizabeth Alvarado – MEXTESOL Journal, 2020
In order to investigate the internal factors present in the interlanguage of learners of English as a foreign language, a qualitative research study was implemented to analyze the written productions of college students. The main objective of this case study was to identify the type of errors the students made and suggest the cognitive reasons…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ionin, Tania; Choi, Sea Hee; Liu, Qiufen – Second Language Research, 2021
This study uses both offline and online tasks in order to investigate whether second language learners of English from an article-less first-language (Mandarin) are able to integrate the indefinite article into their grammar despite the lack of articles in their first language. This article reports on two studies, one on learners' sensitivity to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar, Interlanguage
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Lay, Keith John; Yavuz, Mehmet Ali – SAGE Open, 2020
This study investigates the effect of grammar-focused hands-on in-class data-driven learning (DDL) with a heavily contextualized corpus on the frequency of written errors attributable to common interlingual interference issues in low-intermediate Turkish learners (n = 30) of English. Items representing the most common Turkish-to-English…
Descriptors: Interference (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Interlanguage
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Florou, Katerina – Journal of Education and Learning, 2019
This paper describes a project developed within an ongoing study at the University of Athens. In our previous studies we analyzed the errors of Greek learners of Italian language, using Learner Corpora evidence and we retrieved useful information about their interlanguage and its interaction to the language learning process. In this study we…
Descriptors: Translation, Universities, Italian, Native Language
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Geçkin, Vasfiye – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2022
Variability in the form of article (i.e., a and the) omissions and stressing has been attributed to a mismatch between first (L1) and second language (L2) prosodic and syntactic structures. An overlap between the L1 and L2 systems, on the other hand, is expected to contribute to native-like article productions. This case study aims to explore the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Form Classes (Languages), Syntax
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Abbas, Nawal Fadhil; Younus, Lina Laith; Khalil, Huda Hadi – Arab World English Journal, 2019
Interlanguage fossilization is a crucial dilemma that foreign language learners may fall in. The problem of the present study is shown clearly in the answers of Iraqi students of Master of Arts in the College of Education for Women University of Baghdad. In spite of all the previous years of studying English language, some still have the problem…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Error Analysis (Language), Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Mthethwa, Patrick – TESOL International Journal, 2016
This study reports evidence of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) that surfaced from English compositions of SiSwati learners of English in Swaziland, where English is a second language. Although CLI has been studied widely in other languages, it has not been studied in SiSwati and English, and its implications for instruction are not known.…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Transfer of Training
Zhang, Hang – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation explores the second language acquisition of Mandarin Chinese tones by speakers of non-tonal languages within the framework of Optimality Theory. The effects of three L1s are analyzed: American English, a stress-accent language; Tokyo Japanese, a lexical pitch accent language; and Seoul Korean, a non-stress and non-pitch accent…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Transfer of Training, Phonology, Intonation
Islam, A. K. M. Mazharul – Online Submission, 2011
This study has investigated the interlanguage features in spoken language of four foreigner learners of Bangla. Data has been collected through interviews which were recorded and analyzed. The analysis of the respondents' language has been made in terms of phonetic, morphological and syntactic aspects. The language deviations may be attributed to…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Indo European Languages, Language Processing, Interference (Language)
Baba, Junko – Online Submission, 2010
This interlanguage pragmatics study of linguistic expressions of affect focuses on how Japanese learners of English may express themselves in an affect-laden speech act of indirect complaint. The English as a Second Language (ESL) learners' data are compared with the baseline data of native speakers of Japanese (JJ) and American English (AA). The…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Linguistics, Interlanguage, Native Speakers
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Chan, Alice Y. W. – Modern Language Journal, 2004
This article presents evidence of syntactic transfer from Chinese to English based on data obtained from 710 Hong Kong Chinese ESL learners at different proficiency levels. Three methodologies were used: self-reporting in individual interviews, translation (with and without prompts), and grammaticality judgment. The focus of the study was on 5…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Interlanguage, English (Second Language)
Nickel, Gerhard – IRAL, 1998
Examines the nature of interlanguage as it affects second-language learning and teaching, focusing on the language transfer phenomenon, fossilization, how error analysis and error correction can be improved through understanding of interlanguage, native speaker norms, international varieties of English, and the contribution of interlanguage to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Interlanguage
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Zampini, Mary L. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1996
Examines the role played by voiced stop spirantization in the acquisition of English "b, d, g," and "d" by native Spanish speakers. Results reveal that accuracy in English pronunciation is hindered by native language transfer, including the transfer of spirantization and native language syllable structure constraints, and that…
Descriptors: College Students, Consonants, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
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