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Nuria Haristiani; Devy Christinawati – International Journal of Language Education, 2024
While acquiring a second language, learners may encounter challenges and difficulties in effectively carrying out verbal communication in the second language. Mastering the apology speech act is a challenge for L2 learners. The objective of this study is to identify the apology strategies utilized by individuals learning the Japanese language, as…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Pragmatics, Error Analysis (Language), Second Language Learning
Chiu-ching Tseng – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation investigates Voice Onset Time (VOT), which serves as an essential property for differentiating plosive consonants in L1 and L2 Mandarin Chinese. It surveys VOT variations and demonstrates that they are affected by several phonetic and phonological properties, e.g., lexical tone, place of articulation (POA), speech rate,…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Phonemes
Yuichiro Kobayashi – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2021
This study aimed to identify second language (L2) developmental indices while controlling for the effects of first language (L1). More specifically, this study investigated the differences in the use of metadiscourse markers among learners from different L1 backgrounds. The following research questions were explored: (1) Which metadiscourse…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Zhang, Hang – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation explores the second language acquisition of Mandarin Chinese tones by speakers of non-tonal languages within the framework of Optimality Theory. The effects of three L1s are analyzed: American English, a stress-accent language; Tokyo Japanese, a lexical pitch accent language; and Seoul Korean, a non-stress and non-pitch accent…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Transfer of Training, Phonology, Intonation
Marsden, Heather – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2009
This article reports on an experimental investigation of knowledge of distributivity in nonnative (L2) Japanese learners whose first language (L1) is English or Korean. The availability of distributive scope in Japanese is modulated by word order and the semantic features of quantifiers. For English-speaking learners, these subtle interpretive…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Semantics, Syntax, Word Order
Baba, Junko – Online Submission, 2010
This interlanguage pragmatics study of linguistic expressions of affect focuses on how Japanese learners of English may express themselves in an affect-laden speech act of indirect complaint. The English as a Second Language (ESL) learners' data are compared with the baseline data of native speakers of Japanese (JJ) and American English (AA). The…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Linguistics, Interlanguage, Native Speakers
Marsden, Heather – Second Language Research, 2008
In English and Chinese, questions with a "wh"-object and a universally quantified subject (e.g. "What did everyone buy?") allow an individual answer ("Everyone bought apples.") and a pair-list answer ("Sam bought apples, Jo bought bananas, Sally bought..."). By contrast, the pair-list answer is reportedly unavailable in Japanese and Korean. This…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Semantics, Syntax, Interlanguage
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
Tanaka, Shigenori; Abe, Hajime – 1984
This study examines the role of interlanguage transfer in lexico-semantic development in adult native Japanese-speaking learners of English as a second language in reference to two questions: (1) what constrains the initial hypothesis the student makes about the new target language word? and (2) what constrains a restructuring process of a…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, English (Second Language), Interlanguage, Japanese
Master, Peter – 1988
A study examined second language article acquisition by analyzing the spoken interlanguage of speakers of five different native languages, three with no article system (Chinese, Japanese, and Russian) and two with article systems (Spanish and German). Informal interviews of four speakers of each language at successive levels of interlanguage…
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Determiners (Languages), English (Second Language)
Tabuki, Masatoshi – 1990
An investigation is conducted into the hypothesized notion of the interlanguage system and its effect on language transfer. The interlanguage system is composed of: internal factors (syntax, semantics, and phonology); external factors (sociological and psychological); and the typology of the native language. The investigation looks into: (1)…
Descriptors: Adults, Interlanguage, Japanese, Language Processing
Brown, Tracy; Haynes, Margot – 1983
A study of the possible transfer of reading skills from a first language other than English to English, called script-carryover effects, focused on two aspects of the written language: (1) the manner in which the script represents information about sound and meaning, and (2) whether or not the script uses the same graphemic characters as English.…
Descriptors: Arabic, English (Second Language), Graphemes, Interlanguage
Takshimna, Hideyuki – IRAL, 1992
This study is a continuation of an ethnographic study of a six-year-old Japanese child learning English as a Second Language. It is concluded that language transfer, overgeneralization, and simplification combined with natural development all worked together in the development of the subject's interlanguage, irrespective of the overwhelming input…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Ethnography, Interaction, Interlanguage
Takahashi, Satomi – 1993
A study investigated the extent to which five Japanese indirectness strategies, used to make indirect requests, transfer to situations in which Japanese learners of English make indirect requests in English. The effects of language proficiency on this transferability were also examined. Subjects were 37 Japanese learners of English as a Second…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Interlanguage, Interpersonal Communication, Japanese
Fouser, Robert J. – 1997
This study investigated language transfer, particularly in the realm of pragmatics, in a native Korean-speaking student of advanced Japanese. A series of tasks including a verbal report were used to elicit Japanese production and comprehension data. Results indicate that the learner drew heavily on his native language in completing the tasks, but…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Foreign Countries, Interlanguage, Japanese
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