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Direct linkNatalia Veronica Saez – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Learning to use prepositions in English as a second language (L2) has been widely acknowledged to pose significant difficulties to learners, especially within metaphorical contexts. Difficulties relate to the complex distributional patterns of prepositions in discourse, namely, the variety of collocations requiring their use, as well as…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
Download full textWattananukij, Wattana; Pongpairoj, Nattama – rEFLections, 2022
The research investigated pragmatic transfer in responses to English tag questions by L1 Thai learners based on Interlanguage Pragmatics, specifically pragmatic transfer (Kasper & Blum-Kulka, 1993). The L1 Thai learners were categorized into two groups according to their English proficiency levels: advanced and intermediate. Oral and written…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Mahdavi Emamy, Saideh – ProQuest LLC, 2017
A great deal of research concerning the acquisition of English morphology as a second language has been carried out in order to explain some typical stages in the acquisition of the English-s morphemes and the difficulty confronted by second language learners. According to Siegel (2003), interlanguage and functional transfer both play a crucial…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Transfer of Training, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Takahashi, Tomoko – 1985
An investigation of the language transfer in second language (L2) lexico-semantic development looked at the relationship of the level of L2 proficiency and interlingual patterns of lexico-semantic correspondence. The linguistic categories used were verbs and adjectives. Relative degrees of difficulty for L2 learners were determined for four…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Difficulty Level, English (Second Language), Interlanguage
Peer reviewedCorrales, Olga; Call, Mary Emily – Foreign Language Annals, 1989
A study investigated communication strategies used to express lexical meaning in English by two groups (intermediate and advanced) of Spanish-speaking adult learners of English-as-a-Second-Language. Both structured and unstructured tasks were used to assess interlanguage development vis-a-vis proficiency, and results indicated that the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Difficulty Level, English (Second Language)
Hancin-Bhatt, Barbara; Nagy, William – 1993
This study investigates the development of two levels of morphological knowledge that contribute to Spanish-English bilingual students' ability to recognize cognates: the ability to recognize a cognate stem within a suffixed English word, and knowledge of systematic relationships between Spanish and English suffixes (e.g., the fact that English…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingual Students, Difficulty Level, Elementary School Students
