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Syairofi, Ahmad; Mujahid, Zainul; Mustofa, Mutmainnah; Ubaidillah, M. Faruq; Namaziandost, Ehsan – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
Much empirical research on textbook analysis has been undertaken. However, little evidence with regard to the adoption of SLA findings in the textbook analysis was reported, particularly for the Indonesian EFL textbooks. To fill this void, this study aimed at analyzing a textbook endorsed by the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Textbooks
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Dyson, Bronwen – Second Language Research, 2023
This article enters the debate about the complex and dynamical nature of second language acquisition (SLA) by discussing and commenting on Pallotti's critique of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST). Pallotti's critique brings to the fore the argument that, due to its anti-reductionist stance, CDST research fails to observe three fundamental…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Language Research
Al Bukhari, Juman – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The syntax of Arabic elliptical constructions is unsettled, as there are few studies that have been done in the Arabic descriptive literature, as well as in Jordanian Arabic (henceforth, JA) specifically. Therefore, this paper will investigate some elliptical constructions in JA in particular to figure out the analysis of these constructions. In…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semitic Languages, Language Research, Form Classes (Languages)
Kurniawan, Eri – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The focus of this thesis is the description and analysis of clausal complementation in Sundanese, an Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia. The thesis examined a range of clausal complement types in Sundanese, which consists of (i) "yen/(wi)rehna" "that" complements, (ii) "pikeun" "for" complements,…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Research, Morphology (Languages), Malayo Polynesian Languages
Al-Omoush, Ahmad – Dirasat, 1989
A discussion focusing on the abstractness of analysis in phonology, debated since the 1960s, describes the issue, reviews the literature on the subject, cites specific natural language examples, and examines the extent to which the issue has been resolved. An underlying representation is said to be abstract if it is different from the derived one,…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Foreign Countries, Generalization, Generative Phonology
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Carroll, Susanne; Swain, Merrill – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1993
The relative effects of various types of negative feedback on the acquisition of the English dative alternation by 100 adult Spanish-speaking learners of English as a Second Language were investigated. Results suggest that adult learners can and do use feedback to learn specific and abstract linguistic generalizations. (75 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Adult Students, English (Second Language), Error Correction, Feedback
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Elbers, Loekie – Journal of Child Language, 1995
Reviews theoretical arguments from a longitudinal study of 1 Dutch child (age 3;8.13 at start) for considering production as a source of input for analysis and presents empirical evidence supporting the output-as-input hypothesis for the blending of the Dutch words "wats" and "iets." Evidence suggests the child analyzed his own…
Descriptors: Dutch, Error Patterns, Foreign Countries, Generalization