Morphosyntactic Issues in Second Language Acquisition

by Gabrys-barker, Danuta

• ISBN13: 9781847690654
• ISBN10: 1847690653
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-14
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

This volume presents a selection of second language acquisition studies at the level of morphosyntax. It looks at different aspects of morphosyntactic development of bilingual language learners/users such as language transfer, syntactic processing, morphology and the pragmatics of language among others. The studies report on projects carried out in different language contact contexts, ranging from: English, German, Polish, Greek and Turkish. The volume also includes those studies which show the interface between research findings and pedagogy of foreign language teaching.

Author Biography

Danuta GabryÅ?-Barker lectures in applied linguistics and second language acquisition at the University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland. Her main areas of interest are multilingualism and affectivity in SLA. Professor GabryÅ?-Barker has published numerous articles and two books Aspects of Multilingual Storage, Processing and Retrieval (2005) and Reflectivity in Pre-service Teacher Education (2012). She is the chief editor (together with Eva Vetter) of the International Journal of Multilingualism.

Table of Contents

Preface
Contributors
I Studies on ESL/EFL Morphosyntactic Development
1. Focus Constructions and Meaning Transfer - Terence Odlin
2. Argument Realization and Information Packaging in Tough-movement Constructions - A Learner-corpus-based Investigation - Marcus Callies
3. L1 Syntactic Preferences of Polish Adolescents in Bilingual and Monolingual Education Programmes - Anna Ewert
4. MOGUL and Crosslinguistic Influence - Mike Sharwood-Smith and John Truscott
5. Syntactic Processing of a Multilingual Language User (A Case Study) - Danuta Gabrys-Barker
6. The morphology -me in Modern Greek as L2: How German and Russian L2 Learners Interpret Verbal Constructions - Irini Kassotaki
7. Unaccusativity Marks - Konrad Szczesniak
8. To Move or not to Move: Acquisition of L2 English Syntactic Movement Parameter - Cem Can, Abdurrahman Kilimci and Esra Altunkol
9. Last to Acquire: On the Relation of Concession in Interpreting - Andrzej Lyda
10. Pragmatic (In) Competence in EFL Writing Learners - Ruediger Zimmermann
II. Pedagogical Grammar in Promoting Acquisition of L2 Morphosyntax
11. The Role of Explicit Rule Presentation in Teaching English Articles to Polish Learners - Agnieszka Krol-Markefka
12. The Effect of Corrective Feedback on the Acquisition of the English Third Person- s Ending - Miroslaw Pawlak
13. The Acquisition of German Syntax by Polish Learners in Classroom Conditions - Barbara Sadownik
14. Introducing Language Interface in Pedagogical Grammar - Michal Paradowski
15. Towards Reflecting the Dynamic Nature of Grammar in Language Instruction: Expectations and Current Pedagogic Practice - Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak