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Download full textTang, Gladys – CUHK Papers in Linguistics, 1991
This paper reports on a study that attempts to investigate the acquisition orders of the English interrogatives established in three groups of Cantonese classroom learners. A goal of the study is to examine the effect of formal instruction on second language acquisition, to discover whether different intensity of classroom instruction has an…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Classroom Environment, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Yip, Virginia; Matthews, Stephen – CUHK Papers in Linguistics, 1991
This paper discusses two influential studies on relative clauses (RC), and addresses the development of relative clauses in the interlanguage of advanced Chinese English-as-a-Second-Language speakers in light of the theory of Accessibility Hierarchy (AH). As the two theories predict, avoidance of RCs is typically found with oblique and genitive…
Descriptors: Chinese, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Interlanguage
Tang, Gladys – CUHK Papers in Linguistics, 1993
This paper examines a specific aspect of systematic variability, which is taken to be a result of influence of linguistic context on interlanguage (IL) performance. While it is important to describe how or under what circumstances a linguistic context exerts an influence on IL development, one also needs to explain why it occurs. On the basis of a…
Descriptors: Chinese, Context Effect, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language)
Tang, Gladys, Ed. – CUHK Papers in Linguistics, 1993
Papers in this issue include the following: "Code-Mixing in Hongkong Cantonese-English Bilinguals: Constraints and Processes" (Brian Chan Hok-shing); "Information on Quantifiers and Argument Structure in English Learner's Dictionaries" (Thomas Hun-tak Lee); "Systematic Variability: In Search of a Linguistic…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Chinese, Code Switching (Language), Dictionaries
Yip, Virginia, Ed. – CUHK Papers in Linguistics, 1991
Papers in this volume include the following: "Constraints on Dative Acquisition by Chinese ESL Learners" (Hua Dong Fan); "The Learnability of Locality Conditions on Quantification" (Thomas Lee); "Do Learning Environments Make a Difference? A Study on the Acquisition of the English Interrogatives by Three Types of Cantonese…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, High Schools
