The aim of this study is to identify the development patterns of subject-verb agreement acquisition by Chinese learners of English across different proficiency levels.Data are drawn from 150 written responses from Chi...The aim of this study is to identify the development patterns of subject-verb agreement acquisition by Chinese learners of English across different proficiency levels.Data are drawn from 150 written responses from Chinese Learner English Corpus across three groups:secondary school tests,CET 4,and CET 6.The study establishes clear proficiency influence on the absolute accuracy of subject-verb agreement.However,slight signs of regression are examined in CET 6 writings.Possible theoretical and pedagogical implications are discussed.展开更多
The experiment presented in this research is targeting a ＇positional＇ stage of a ＇modular＇ model of speech production originally proposed by Levelt （1989）, Bock ＆ Levelt （1994）, where selected lemmas are inse...The experiment presented in this research is targeting a ＇positional＇ stage of a ＇modular＇ model of speech production originally proposed by Levelt （1989）, Bock ＆ Levelt （1994）, where selected lemmas are inserted into syntactic frames. Results suggest a difference between L1 and L2 English speakers at the positional stage. While this might suggest that the speech planning process is different in native and non-native speakers, an alternative view is also proposed that the observed differences are the result of differences in the way that linguistic forms are stored, rather than a fundamental difference in the way that speech is planned. This result indicates main verb, copula be ＆ local dependency effect are the three elements that affect the realization of English subject-verb agreement, and helps us locate the phase where L2 subject-verb agreement errors happen.展开更多
文摘The aim of this study is to identify the development patterns of subject-verb agreement acquisition by Chinese learners of English across different proficiency levels.Data are drawn from 150 written responses from Chinese Learner English Corpus across three groups:secondary school tests,CET 4,and CET 6.The study establishes clear proficiency influence on the absolute accuracy of subject-verb agreement.However,slight signs of regression are examined in CET 6 writings.Possible theoretical and pedagogical implications are discussed.
文摘The experiment presented in this research is targeting a ＇positional＇ stage of a ＇modular＇ model of speech production originally proposed by Levelt （1989）, Bock ＆ Levelt （1994）, where selected lemmas are inserted into syntactic frames. Results suggest a difference between L1 and L2 English speakers at the positional stage. While this might suggest that the speech planning process is different in native and non-native speakers, an alternative view is also proposed that the observed differences are the result of differences in the way that linguistic forms are stored, rather than a fundamental difference in the way that speech is planned. This result indicates main verb, copula be ＆ local dependency effect are the three elements that affect the realization of English subject-verb agreement, and helps us locate the phase where L2 subject-verb agreement errors happen.
