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APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE - Assignment
SUBJECT ASSIGNMENT: APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE
Name and surname(s): Jose Lanchipa Bueno Login: Group: 27 Date: 02/10/2011
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APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE - Assignment
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Task 1 Task 2 Task 3 References
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APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE - Assignment
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Native Languages: Mixed. Target Language: English. Background Information: Intermediate level, students on an intensive course. Data Source: student compositions.
DATA: 1. Soccer is the most common sporting. 2. America refused continual supported our military request. 3. When he was 7 years old, he went schooling. 4. About two hours driving eastern from Bangkok. 5. After finished my college studied, I went to my country. 6. Doctors have the right to removed it from him. 7. There is a night for asleep. 8. Moreover it may lead to conflicting. 9. I am not going to get married when I will graduation the school. QUESTIONS: 1. Work out an IL generalization that might account for the forms in boldface. Give your reasons for postulating this generalization. 2. What strategy/strategies do you think these learners have come up with regarding lexical use? 3. What additional information, if any, would you like to have from these learners to test your hypothesis? ANSWERS: 1. In the cases of items 1, 3 and 8, (where the right answers perhaps will be, in this order: sport, to school, and into conflict) students used the pattern noun + ing, which in many cases gives form to a new noun, like in the case of for example: “I went shopping to Miami, last week”. In these particular cases students have the mistaken idea (that remained in their brains), that all nouns can follow the same pattern.
SUBJECT ASSIGNMENT: APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE
Name and surname(s): Jose Lanchipa Bueno Login: Group: 27 Date: 02/10/2011
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APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE - Assignment
INDEX
Task 1 Task 2 Task 3 References
.....................................................................................................3-5 …………………………………………………………………………5- 7 …………………………………………………………………………8-9 .................................................................................................…..10
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APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE - Assignment
Task 1
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Native Languages: Mixed. Target Language: English. Background Information: Intermediate level, students on an intensive course. Data Source: student compositions.
DATA: 1. Soccer is the most common sporting. 2. America refused continual supported our military request. 3. When he was 7 years old, he went schooling. 4. About two hours driving eastern from Bangkok. 5. After finished my college studied, I went to my country. 6. Doctors have the right to removed it from him. 7. There is a night for asleep. 8. Moreover it may lead to conflicting. 9. I am not going to get married when I will graduation the school. QUESTIONS: 1. Work out an IL generalization that might account for the forms in boldface. Give your reasons for postulating this generalization. 2. What strategy/strategies do you think these learners have come up with regarding lexical use? 3. What additional information, if any, would you like to have from these learners to test your hypothesis? ANSWERS: 1. In the cases of items 1, 3 and 8, (where the right answers perhaps will be, in this order: sport, to school, and into conflict) students used the pattern noun + ing, which in many cases gives form to a new noun, like in the case of for example: “I went shopping to Miami, last week”. In these particular cases students have the mistaken idea (that remained in their brains), that all nouns can follow the same pattern.
References: Ellis, R. (1997): Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Jain, M. P. (1974): "Error analysis: source, cause and significance", in J. Richards Error Analysis. Perspectives on Second Language Acquisition. Harlow, Essex: Longman.