8. To Move or Not to Move: Acquisition of L2 English Syntactic Movement Parameter

Can, Cem; Kilimci, Abdurrahman; Altunkol, Esra

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“…Keeping the above-mentioned findings in mind, the present study is intended to reveal the second language acquisition of syntactic movement in English by Turkish-speaking adult learners of English, partially replicating the study by Can et al (2008). The following section offers information about the participants and data collection procedure of the study.…”

Section: Prog-3sgmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…So, they concluded that the superficial similarity between Korean and Chinese regarding head direction leads learners not to restructure quickly, while the surface dissimilarity of English and Chinese gives rise to rapid restructuring in L2 grammars of learners. In a different study, Can et al (2008) explored second language acquisition of syntactic movement in English noun clauses with the participation of intermediate and advanced learners of English with Turkish L1, and reported that the advanced group was significantly more competent in handling syntactic movement operations, but still had problems with noun clauses with an auxiliary verb. Another finding of their study is that both groups of non-native students used noun clauses in object position more successfully than those in subject position.…”

Section: Prog-3sgmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Second Language Acquisition of Syntactic Movement in English by Turkish Adult Learners

Ağçam¹,

Çoban²,

Cisdik³

2015

UNIBULLETIN

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There has been much discussion on the involvement of Universal Grammar (UG) in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) process. Despite growing research in the field, few precise answers to the problem have been suggested so far. Hence, recent L2 studies within the generative framework have shifted from investigating this issue to determining whether or not interlanguage grammars exhibit natural language characteristics (Can, Kilimci & Altunkol, 2007). The present study aimed to investigate L2 acquisition of syntactic movement in English noun clauses by Turkish adult learners. Accordingly, L1 involvement in SLA was sought through examining the upper intermediate Turkish learners' knowledge about the movement in question. The study addressed the questions of whether or not Turkish adult ESL learners have problems, stemming from L1 interference, with the construction of the syntactic movement in English noun clauses, and whether or not there is any order of acquisition between the noun clauses in subject position and object position along with various wh-words. The study reported related findings, and concluded with a few pedagogical implications for practice, and a couple of suggestions for further directions.

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Section: Prog-3sgmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Prog-3sgmentioning

confidence: 99%