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Second Language Users' Restriction of Linguistic Generalization Errors: The Case of English "Un-" Prefixation Development
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Zhang, Xiaopeng – Language Learning, 2017
This study adopted Ambridge's research paradigm to examine the effects of entrenchment, preemption, and verb semantics in second language (L2) acquisition of English "un-" prefixation. Three groups of Chinese learners of English (second- and fourth-year English majors and teachers of English) rated the acceptability of 48 "un-"…
Descriptors: Generalization, Error Analysis (Language), Linguistic Performance, Language Styles
Electroal Rhetoric in Israel--The Televised Debates. A Study in Political Discourse.
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Nir, Raphael – Language Learning, 1988
Analysis of the communicative setting of televised electoral debates in Israel focused on the stylistic features of the political candidates' discourse. The analysis identified and described such rhetorical strategies as figurative expressions and intensifiers, irony and rhetorical questions, repetition and parallelism, and meta-discoursive…
Descriptors: Debate, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
Learning Spanish as a Second Language: Learners' Orientations and Perceptions of Their Teachers' Communication Style.
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Noels, Kimberly A. – Language Learning, 2003
Examined a model in which perceptions of autonomy support and informative feedback from teachers sustain generalized feelings of autonomy and competence in language learning Followed up on an earlier study by examining how integrative orientation relates to intrinsic and extrinsic orientations, which in turn support feelings of intrinsic…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), English (Second Language), Feedback, Foreign Countries