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Input and Competing Grammars in L2 Syntax
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Rankin, Tom – Second Language Research, 2023
Grammar competition has been proposed as a model for second language (L2) acquisition. Variational Learning provides a framework within which to investigate the idea of grammar competition as the model requires a marriage of quantitative properties of the input with Universal Grammar. A diachronic variational model of grammar competition is…
Descriptors: Grammar, Linguistic Input, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Grammar as a Joint Achievement: Co-Constructions in L2 Interactions
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Family, Neiloufar; Durus, Natalia; Ziegler, Gudrun – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2015
In this study, we present and analyze co-constructions from L2 English data collected at the European School in Luxembourg. Co-constructions are morpho-syntactic structures split across two speakers, in which a second speaker completes a grammatical structure initiated by the first speaker in conversation. The corpus features multilingual 13-14…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Grammar
A Matter of Significance: Can Sampling Error Invalidate Cloze Estimates of Text Readability?
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O'Toole, John Mitchell; King, Robert A. R. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2010
This quantitative study intends to better understand the impact of the location of the first deleted word upon the estimation of text difficulty yielded by successive cloze tests based on random deletion from a single passage. The variation in sampling of language features across five cloze tests based on the same passage is random and thus not…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Readability, Nouns, Figurative Language