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Direct linkJuffs, Alan; Fang, Shaohua – Language Learning, 2022
This article focuses on the role of crosslinguistic patterns with verbs in the mapping of noun phrases/semantic roles to positions in morphosyntax, with a particular focus on second language (L2) development of Spanish "se." The data set derives from high school learners of Spanish in the United States under broadly deductive and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
Juffs, Alan – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2006
The article by Clahsen and Felser (CF) on grammatical processing in language learning is a timely and much-needed synthesis of research on this topic. It correctly identifies both morphological processing and syntactic processing as key areas that require attention. This commentary raises two issues: the relationship between the grammar and the…
Descriptors: Grammar, Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Adult Learning
Peer reviewedJuffs, Alan – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2001
Discusses key points raised in the articles in this special issue of the journal. Suggests progress is being made in using complementary theories of the role of lexical representation, prediction, and crosslinguistic variation to get a full picture of this complex area of lexico-morhposyntactic knowledge. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Language Variation, Morphology (Languages), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedJuffs, Alan – Language Teaching Research, 1998
Provides an analysis of the frequency of verbs and their syntactic requirements in "Interchange" (Richards et al., 1991), a popular series of textbooks for English as a Second Language (ESL). A corpus analysis of "Interchange" suggests that ESL materials may underrepresent some of the verb classes that are known to cause learners difficulty.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Instructional Materials, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedJuffs, Alan – Second Language Research, 1998
Explores effects of first-language verb-argument structure on English-as-a-Second-Language processing. Native Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Romance language speakers (all advanced English speakers) provided word-by-word reading times and gramaticality judgment data in self-paced reading tasks. Results suggest that reliable differences in parsing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Proficiency
Peer reviewedJuffs, Alan – Second Language Research, 1996
Examines knowledge of semantics-syntax correspondences in second-language acquisition (SLA) within the Principles and Parameters framework. A parameter of semantic structure is used to investigate change of state locatives and "psychological" verbs. Results indicate that for some learners, first-language influence persists until advanced stages of…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Chinese, Dictionaries, English (Second Language)
