Interlanguage

In my dissertation, I decided to adhere to the guidelines presented by Twining et al. (2016) that a study must follow a qualitative or a quantitative methodology/approach, and that the two cannot be mixed. This decision will affect the way the study is designed and conducted, e.g. number of participants, research questions, etc. Picking one approach over the other, however, will not make data collection exclusive to numerical or non-numerical data. The two data collection methods, both quantitative

language, such as Stephen Krashen’s five main hypotheses on language acquisition (the acquisition-learning hypothesis, the monitor hypothesis, the natural order hypothesis, the input hypothesis, and the affective filter hypothesis), Larry Selinker’s Interlanguage theory, John Schumann’s Acculturation model, and Howard Giles’s Accommodation theory. These theories helped me realize the robustness and richness of SLA research and made a permanent impression on my mind about this field. Besides SLA, I was

Comparing between National and International Primary schools in their usage of motivation relation with the second language acquisition Abstract Acquiring the second language is one of the most important things now a day. The second language helps students to deal with their daily life. And acquiring the second language will not come easily; it will need some help like motivation skills. So motivation is the key for acquiring any new language. A letter will be given to students to write it down and

World Englishes 1 World Englishes: Approaches, Issues, and Resources Charlotte Liu & Karen Huang Dr. Sedique Popal Applied Linguistics April 30th, 2015 World Englishes 2 Introduction Nowadays, many people view English as a global language. With more and more people speak English as a second and foreign language. English speakers play an important role in international business and economics. The data shows that there are over 350 million people speak English as their first language around the

creates a novel area for the writing process. For this reason, the researcher conducted this study to explore the effect of teaching explicit versus implicit pragmatic instruction on upper-intermediate EFL learners’ email writing development. 2.1 Interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) Kasper and Roever (2005) asserted that to foreign and second language learners the understanding of second language pragmatics could be an important difficulty because it typically entails learning “not only how to do things with

This essay describes the global spread of English, its advantages and disadvantages, and its’ affects on language from my perspective as an ESL/EFL teacher at the Shanghai Singapore International School (SSIS) located in the outskirts of Shanghai. SSIS differs from other international schools in Shanghai due to its’ large Asian student population . As a Singaporean international school, many places are given in preference to Singaporean students irrespective of their level of English . This policy

1. Classroom talk Learner talk in the target language can only flourish if teachers themselves are prepared to use and maintain the TL the MFL classroom as the main communication language. But there are many other factors that contributes to learner talk in the TL or the lack of it. One prominent factor is the literacy level of the learner in his own mother language. There might be a lack of grammatical knowledge as well as problems with spelling, reading and writing. If the learner has not yet understood

Error Correction in Second Language Writing: Teachers’ Beliefs, Practices, and Students’ Preferences Victor Albert Francis S. Corpuz Supervisors: Lynette May Annette Patterson Queensland University of Technology Faculty of Education Master of Education (Research) September 2011 Abstract Error correction is perhaps the most widely used method for responding to student writing. W hile various studies have investigated the effectiveness of providing error correction, there has

Introduction Over the past few decades, different theories emerged to explain how these children acquire their language such as behaviorism, nativism, and interactionism. The research on first language acquisition did not lead only to the previous theory, but it also led to the emergence of second language acquisition theories. One of these second language theories is the Monitor Model which was influenced by the nativist perspective on language acquisition. The Monitor Model also led to the emergence

Introduction Since the foundation of Interaction Hypothesis by Michael H. Long in 1983, there has been a plethora of empirical research which has pointed to the benefits that L2 learning reaps from conversational interaction (Keck, Iberri-Shea, Tracy-Ventura, & Wa-Mbaleka 2006; Li 2010; Lyster & Saito, 2010; Mackey and Goo 2007; Russel and Spada 2006). Long (1981, 1983) asserted that comprehensible input, although necessary, is not sufficient in the process of L2 learning, and that through interaction