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LSLA 35: The Acquisition of Passive Constructions in L2 English by Mandarin Speakers

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92,80
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The Acquisition of Passive Constructions in L2 English by Mandarin Speakers
 
Kenny Wang
Western Sydney University
 
Native speakers can make efficient use of discourse-pragmatic devices such as the passive constructions effortlessly to communicate from an alternative perspectives. The acquisition and the felicitous use of discourse-pragmatic devices is an important milestone for L2 learners. This study utilises Processability Theory (Pienemann, 1998; Pienemann, Di Biase, & Kawaguchi, 2005) as the language development framework to investigate the acquisition and development of various English passive constructions by Mandarin speakers.
 
A cross-sectional study and a pretest/posttest study were employed to test the hypothesised order of acquisition of various English passive constructions and to investigate the processing factors that underlie the order of acquisition. Speech data from learners in both the English as a second language (ESL) and English as a foreign language (EFL) contexts were collected for analysis and comparison. Results show that, as hypothesised by the Processability Theory extension, learners at lower stages of development will use only the active construction, and that passive constructions will be more effortful for learners to process due to the greater processing loads involved in the required argument to grammatical function mapping. Furthermore, the study found that learners' development of various constructions under the broad passive voice category proceeds in a sequential fashion.
 
Keywords: Processability Theory, SLA, passive voice, passive constructions, discourse-pragmatics
 
ISBN 9783862886760. LINCOM Studies in Language Acquisition 35. 371pp. 2016. 
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LSLA 36: L’acquisizione della modalità deontica in italiano L2

Artikel-Nr.: ISBN 9783862888139
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L’acquisizione della modalità deontica in italiano L2
 
Borbála Samu
Università per Stranieri di Perugia
 
Questo lavoro ha come obiettivo lo studio dell’acquisizione spontanea della modalità deontica in italiano L2 da parte di parlanti anglofoni. La bibliografia abbraccia la letteratura sulla modalità in generale e su quella deontica in particolare con una visione teorica costituita dalla Functional Discourse Grammar di Hengeveld e Mackenzie e dalle posizioni che, intorno al problema della rappresentazione semantica della modalità, ha assunto van der Auwera. Su questo sfondo si costruiscono le riflessioni intorno al corpus degli apprendenti, un corpus costituito da venti brevi documenti scritti e sedici conversazioni (per un totale di sei ore e mezza circa), con il monitoraggio di sedici studenti, le cui competenze si suddividevano equamente dal livello A1 al livello C1, e di due “elementi di controllo” italiani. Nell’analisi dei dati raccolti si mostra come meccanismi di calco e fenomeni di grammaticalizzazione si alternino nelle interlingue degli apprendenti.
 
È risultato possibile riconnettere alcuni dei processi di grammaticalizzazione osservati in diacronia a quelli osservabili nelle interlingue. Si illustra poi come, in prospettiva semantica, i dati degli apprendenti mostrino come lo slittamento dal deontico all’epistemico, sia attivato, secondo le ipotesi di Traugott, Bybee, Sweetser e Goossens, da procedimenti metonimici e metaforici in presenza di determinati cotesti. Una parte importante dello studio è riservata alla trattazione dell’imperativo e si dimostra, in ultima analisi, come il modo imperativo si rapporti al caso vocativo nell’ambito della Functional Discourse Grammar.
 
Borbála Samu ha conseguito il dottorato di ricerca in Linguistica storica presso l’Università di Manchester (Regno Unito) e successivamente il dottorato in Linguistica applicata presso l’Università per Stranieri di Perugia. Attualmente lavora presso l’Università per Stranieri di Perugia e presso Umbra Institute, un istituto americano di istruzione superiore operante a Perugia: insegna nei corsi di lingua e cultura italiana e si occupa della formazione degli insegnanti di italiano a stranieri. Le sue pubblicazioni riguardano da un lato la sintassi storica dell’italiano e dei volgari italiani antichi e dall’altro, l’acquisizione dell’italiano L2 e la didattica dell’italiano lingua non materna.
 
ISBN 9783862888139.  LINCOM Studies in Language Acquisition 36. 174pp. 2017.
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LSLA 37: Learners’ Engagement with Written Corrective Feedback and their L2 Writing Performance

Artikel-Nr.: ISBN 9783969390993
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Learners’ Engagement with Written Corrective Feedback and their L2 Writing Performance
 
Nadia A. Alshahrani
Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University
 
This book sums a research study that explored learners’ engagement with written corrective feedback (WCF) and subsequent second language (L2) writing performance changes. A two-component intervention was implemented to reveal the influence of different learning environments and WCF delivery on the L2 writing performance. The first component explored the influence of using different modes on the learners’ engagement with WCF; computer-mediated and handwritten CF were used in two separate classes. The second component explored the influence of thinking-aloud (TA) as a mediating strategy on learner engagement with WCF within the different modes. A quasi-experimental design was applied to measure the learners’ development in the targeted skills, namely writing fluency, grammatical accuracy and grammatical competence. In the TA sessions, only the changes in L2 writing fluency were monitored.
 
The study revealed that optimal conditions for the intervention influenced learners’ engagement with WCF and enhanced their L2 writing performance. When the learners received meaningful WCF and engaged with it through learner-regulation strategies, agency and efficacy, their L2 writing performance was enhanced. Mediating strategies, such as TA, are recommended alongside affective CF episodes to encourage learners’ constructive engagement with WCF through meaningful activities that stimulate their cognitive engagement without hindering their affective and social engagement.
 
ISBN 9783969390993. LINCOM Studies in Language Acquisition 37. 272pp. 2022
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