Phonological transfer effects in novice learners: A learner's brain detects grammar errors only if the language sounds familiar

Berthelsen, Sabine Gosselke; Horne, Merle; Shtyrov, Yury; Roll, Mikael

doi:10.1017/s1366728921000134

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“…Usually, L2 and foreign language learners without proficiency in the language will make errors in their sentences (Rana et al, 2019), and these errors may disclose learners' insufficient competence in producing sentences with correct grammar (Berthelsen et al, 2021). Nonetheless, SL learners' errors could be decreased significantly by conducting systematic error analysis periodically to identify types and characteristics of the errors from learner production of speaking or writing.…”

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Errors in Essays of Technical University Students: A Case Study at Sunyani Technical University

Botchwey,

Agyemang Opoku

2023

JRSPELT

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Making grammatical errors is a common part of learning a second language. This study examines grammatical errors committed by English as second language (ESL) learners of Sunyani Technical University in Ghana. The population used is year-one students from the Faculty of Built Environment and Applied Art. 46 written essays between 150 to 200-word long were included in the analysis. As a qualitative study with descriptive method, it adopted Corder's (1967) and Ellis (1997) steps of error analysis, which include identifying, classifying, describing, and explaining errors in the essays to ascertain (1) the types of grammatical errors made, (2) the frequency of these errors. The results include 866 grammatical errors in the following order of frequencies: punctuation errors (24.48%), capitalization problem (20.21%), inappropriate word choice (19.75%), incorrect spelling (11.89%), incorrect verb form (6.70%), wrong preposition (4.39%), subject-verb disagreement (3.93%), article errors (3.93%), number disagreement (3.00%), and incorrect verb tense (1.73%). The study has implications for the teaching of English writing with reference to grammatical competence. It informs the areas of grammar that require more attention and the need to adapt teaching strategies to improve students' grammatical competence.

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Errors in Essays of Technical University Students: A Case Study at Sunyani Technical University

Botchwey,

Agyemang Opoku

2023

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“…Probabilistic associations are crucial in making spoken language processing efficient (Romberg and Saffran, 2010), and are refined through experience. L2 studies show that higher language proficiency facilitates tone-tense and tone-number suffix associations in L2 Swedish (Schremm et al, 2016;Gosselke Berthelsen et al, 2018 and stress-tense suffix associations in L2 Spanish (Sagarra and Casillas, 2018), and that novice learners only recognize L2 tone-suffix associations if their L1 is tonal (Gosselke Berthelsen et al, 2021). While research comparing monolinguals to both L2 learners and HSs could tease apart AoO from language experience, these studies are often inconclusive.…”

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The Next Phase in Heritage Language Studies: Methodological Considerations and Advancements

2024

Frontiers Research Topics

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Frontiers is more than just an open access publisher of scholarly articles: it is a pioneering approach to the world of academia, radically improving the way scholarly research is managed. The grand vision of Frontiers is a world where all people have an equal opportunity to seek, share and generate knowledge. Frontiers provides immediate and permanent online open access to all its publications, but this alone is not enough to realize our grand goals. Frontiers journal seriesThe Frontiers journal series is a multi-tier and interdisciplinary set of openaccess, online journals, promising a paradigm shift from the current review, selection and dissemination processes in academic publishing. All Frontiers journals are driven by researchers for researchers; therefore, they constitute a service to the scholarly community. At the same time, the Frontiers journal series operates on a revolutionary invention, the tiered publishing system, initially addressing specific communities of scholars, and gradually climbing up to broader public understanding, thus serving the interests of the lay society, too. Dedication to qualityEach Frontiers article is a landmark of the highest quality, thanks to genuinely collaborative interactions between authors and review editors, who include some of the world's best academicians. Research must be certified by peers before entering a stream of knowledge that may eventually reach the public -and shape society; therefore, Frontiers only applies the most rigorous and unbiased reviews. Frontiers revolutionizes research publishing by freely delivering the most outstanding research, evaluated with no bias from both the academic and social point of view. By applying the most advanced information technologies, Frontiers is catapulting scholarly publishing into a new generation. What are Frontiers Research Topics?Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers journals series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area.

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“…Probabilistic associations are crucial in making spoken language processing efficient ( Romberg and Saffran, 2010 ), and are refined through experience. L2 studies show that higher language proficiency facilitates tone-tense and tone-number suffix associations in L2 Swedish ( Schremm et al, 2016 ; Gosselke Berthelsen et al, 2018 , 2020 ) and stress-tense suffix associations in L2 Spanish ( Sagarra and Casillas, 2018 ), and that novice learners only recognize L2 tone-suffix associations if their L1 is tonal ( Gosselke Berthelsen et al, 2021 ).…”

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Practice beats age: co-activation shapes heritage speakers’ lexical access more than age of onset

Sagarra

Casillas

2023

Front. Psychol.

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Probabilistic associations make language processing efficient and are honed through experience. However, it is unclear what language experience factors explain the non-monolingual processing behaviors typical of L2 learners and heritage speakers (HSs). We investigated whether AoO, language proficiency, and language use affect the recognition of Spanish stress-tense suffix associations involving a stressed syllable that cues a present suffix (SALta “s/he jumps”) and an unstressed syllable that cues a past suffix (SALtó “s/he jumped”). Adult Spanish-English HSs, English-Spanish L2 learners, and Spanish monolinguals saw a paroxytone verb (stressed initial syllable) and an oxytone verb (unstressed initial syllable), listened to a sentence containing one of the verbs, and chose the one they heard. Spanish proficiency measured grammatical and lexical knowledge, and Spanish use assessed percentage of current usage. Both bilingual groups were comparable in Spanish proficiency and use. Eye-tracking data showed that all groups fixated on target verbs above chance before hearing the syllable containing the suffix, except the HSs in the oxytones. Monolinguals fixated on targets more and earlier, although at a slower rate, than HSs and L2 learners; in turn, HSs fixated on targets more and earlier than L2 learners, except in oxytones. Higher proficiency increased target fixations in HSs (oxytones) and L2 learners (paroxytones), but greater use only increased target fixations in HSs (oxytones). Taken together, our data show that HSs’ lexical access depends more on number of lexical competitors (co-activation of two L1 lexica) and type (phonotactic) frequency than token (lexical) frequency or AoO. We discuss the contribution of these findings to models in phonology, lexical access, language processing, language prediction, and human cognition.

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Phonological transfer effects in novice learners: A learner's brain detects grammar errors only if the language sounds familiar

Cited by 5 publications

References 81 publications

Errors in Essays of Technical University Students: A Case Study at Sunyani Technical University

Errors in Essays of Technical University Students: A Case Study at Sunyani Technical University

The Next Phase in Heritage Language Studies: Methodological Considerations and Advancements

Practice beats age: co-activation shapes heritage speakers’ lexical access more than age of onset

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