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"Is Raining Very Hard in Puerto Rico": If Communication Transpires with the Syntactic Parameter, Why Change It to Another?
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Lori Le Duc Slaybaugh – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The Null Subject Parameter (NSP) has long been considered pertinent to Second Language Acquisition (SLA) studies, especially when the native language (NL) and target language (TL) have different NSP settings. The study aimed to investigate whether seventy English L2 learners in Puerto Rico who were native Spanish speakers transferred their L1…
Descriptors: Native Language, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Second Language Learning