Essays about: "grammatical morphemes Language Acquisition"

Found 5 essays containing the words grammatical morphemes Language Acquisition.

1. 1. APPLICATION OF PROCESSABILITY THEORY TO SFI STUDENTS’ L2 WRITING COMPETENCIES

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogik

   Author : Reyhaneh Tajgardoun; [2020-01-22]
   Keywords : Swedish as a second language; language acquisition; L2 writing; morphology; processability theory;

   Abstract : Aim: The main purpose of this study is to study the written proficiency of SFI students at different morphological learning levels, and their ability to conjugate verbs, nouns, and adjectives using a wordless children book (frog-story). Theory: This study tries to link SFI levels of written proficiency to the levels of Pienemann hierarchy of language learning. READ MORE

3. 2. Swedish L2 Learners’ acquisition of grammatical morphemes : A cross-sectional study on how well Swedish Learners of English as a second language at upper secondary school use morphemes in their writing.

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Author : Hugues Samuelfolk; [2018]
   Keywords : Morpheme acquisition order; natural order hypothesis; L2 acquisition and learning; corpus; Swedish learners; Morfem förvärvsorder; naturlig ordning hypotes; andra språkinlärning; korpus; svenska elever.;

   Abstract : The main aim of this paper has been to examine if Swedish students at upper secondary school were able to use the morphemes The progressive –ing, The irregular past and The irregular third person. In addition, it has also addressed if the students examined in this essay were able to use some morphemes better than others. READ MORE

4. 3. The hierarchy of Chinese grammar: A cross-sectional study of L2 Chinese within Processability Theory

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

   Author : Magnus Brolin; [2017]
   Keywords : PT; Processability Theory; Second Language Acquisition; SLA; Chinese; Mandarin; Swedish; grammar; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Processability Theory (PT) is a well-established theoretical framework within the field of Second Language Acquisition, which describes the development of acquiring language as a process of acquiring procedural skills. The procedural skills are necessary for the learner being able to process different grammatical structures of the target language, and these are obtained by the learner through available input and the given learning device. READ MORE

5. 4. A Corpus Based Study in Morpheme Acquisition Order of Young Learners of English : A comparison of Swedish students in grade 6 and grade 7

   University essay from Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier

   Author : Su Yin Khor; [2013]
   Keywords : morpheme acquisition order; natural order hypothesis; second language acquisition; Swedish learners; first language influence and transfer; corpus; morphological congruency;

   Abstract : This study investigated the morpheme acquisition order of Swedish students in grades 6 and 7, utilizing corpus texts drawn from the Uppsala Learner English Corpus (ULEC). It is an extension of Khor (2012) that focused on students in grades 9 and 12. READ MORE

6. 5. Young Swedish students' knowledge of English grammatical morphemes

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten

   Author : Victoria Bergvall; [2007]
   Keywords : Second language acquisition; grammatical morphemes; English as a second language; acquisition order;

   Abstract : Research has shown that children who have English as a first language acquire grammatical morphemes in a predictable order. Many researchers claim that second language learners also follow a predictable pattern when learning English grammatical morphemes regardless of their linguistic background, and that the same mechanisms are responsible for both first and second language acquisition. READ MORE