Second language acquisition: from theory to data

Jansen, Louise

doi:10.1191/026765800671563747

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“…Dieses Problem betrifft den Umgang mit Produktionsdaten. Wie Jansen (2000) kritisch bemerkt, wird ein direkter Vergleich der Ergebnisse oben erwähnter Studien dadurch erschwert, dass in diesen Studien mit den empirischen Daten recht unterschiedlich umgegangen wurde, um eine Aussage darüber zu treffen, ob der Erwerb des jeweils untersuchten Phänomens erfolgt sei oder nicht. Dieses Problem soll hier exemplarisch in Bezug auf den Erwerb der SVKongruenz diskutiert werden.…”

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Zusammenhänge zwischen Wortstellungen und Subjekt-Verb-Kongruenz in der lernersprachlichen Entwicklung bei L2-Lernern des Deutschen

Lee¹

2012

Zeitschrift Für Germanistische Linguistik

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The present work deals with production difficulties associated with German word order rules and examines how word order and subject-verb agreement relate to one another in the interlanguage development of learners of German as a second language, paying particular attention to the perspective of the learner regarding their language production. It will be argued that the production difficulties with subject-verb inversion (INVERSION) and verb-final placement in subordinate clauses (V-FINAL) as well as the tendency in learners to produce SVO structures instead of INVERSION and V-FINAL, are consequences caused by a specific way of processing used by the leaner in trying to realize the subject-verb agreement that is typical of German. Over the course of the interlanguage development, the processing of word order, in turn, influences the processing of subject-verb agreement so that learners rarely produce subjectverb agreement errors in structures having SVO word order, while on the other hand, they occur frequently in structures that deviate from SVO word order. It is assumed that factors such as the acquisition context (natural/instructed), transfer from previously acquired languages and age-related, cognitive maturity play an important role in the acquisition of subject-verb agreement.

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Zusammenhänge zwischen Wortstellungen und Subjekt-Verb-Kongruenz in der lernersprachlichen Entwicklung bei L2-Lernern des Deutschen

Lee¹

2012

Zeitschrift Für Germanistische Linguistik

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“…What theoretical grounds can be invoked to demonstrate that the selected criterion is a valid indicator for the 'emergence' construct? Such questions concern all acquisition criteria used in SLA research and have not yet received satisfactory answers (Jansen 2000;Norris and Ortega 2003;Jordan 2004).…”

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An Operational Definition of the Emergence Criterion

Pallotti

2007

Applied Linguistics

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Although acquisition criteria are a fundamental issue for SLA research, they have not always been adequately defined or elaborated in the literature. This article critically scrutinizes one such criterion, the emergence criterion, proposing an explicit, operational definition. After discussing emergence as a theoretical construct, the article addresses several points involved in its operationalization. These points concern all stages of a research project, from data collection to data organization and analysis. A concrete example is provided, leading to the formulation of an emergence criterion for the acquisition of two grammatical structures of Italian as a second language. Issues of reliability and validity are also discussed, providing indications for future research.

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“…This apparent discrepancy with the findings of the earlier studies can be attributed to a number of possible causes: the nature of the data (written, not spoken), first language influence (French instead of English or one of the other Romance languages in the migrant worker studies), different acquisition criteria (mastery, rather than emergence of the rule, cf. Jansen 2000). The DiGS researchers suspect that the decisive factor is first language influence (Diehl et al, 2000:112f.).…”

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