Interlanguage Development and Variations of Chinese EFL Learners
Author: Ai-li C. Hsin
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9789574451746
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Making Requests by Chinese EFL Learners
Author: Vincent X. Wang
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 902725611X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRequests, a speech act people frequently use to perform everyday social interactions, have attracted particular attenTION IN Politeness theories, pragmatics, and second language acquisition. This book looks at request behaviours in a significant EFL population - Chinese speaking learners of English. It will draw on recent literature, such as politeness theories and cognitive models for interlanguage pragmatics development, as well as placing special emphasis on situational context and formulaic language to provide a more fine-grained investigation. A rnage of request scenarios has been specifically designed for this project, from common service encounters to highly face-threatening situations such as borrowing money and asking a favour of police officer. Our findings on Chinese-style pragmatic behaviours and patterns of pragmatic development will be of value to cross-cultural pragmatics researchers, TESOL professionals, and university students with an interest in this area of study.
Interlanguage and Learnability
Author: Virginia Yip
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1995-10-26
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9027281734
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates a set of structures characteristic of Chinese speakers' English interlanguage (CIL) in the light of grammatical theory and principles of learnability. As a study of CIL grammar, it illuminates both the theory of interlanguage syntax in general and some specific problems in the acquisition of English by Chinese L1 learners. A set of interrelated structures are investigated, including topicalization, passive, ergative, “tough movement” and existential constructions. The interlanguage is approached through the comparative syntax of the relevant L1 and L2 constructions, combining insights from Chomskyan Universal Grammar and typological research. CIL proves to be permeable to Chinese typological influence and bears topic-prominent characteristics, while showing effects of language universals. A parallel theme of the book is the question of learnability in the context of second language acquisition. The Subset and Uniqueness Principles are adapted to the L2 context so as to account for learning difficulty as well as successful acquisition. Under-generation and over-generation of the interlanguage and target constructions give rise to learnability problems which are formulated in terms of set relations at the level of individual constructions. The Uniqueness Principle is invoked to motivate preemption of overgenerated forms. The interaction of syntax and semantics plays a crucial role in the formulation and resolution of these learnability problems. General conceptual issues raised by the Subset and Uniqueness Principles are also discussed.
Pragmatic Transfer and Development
Author: Wei Li
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2018-03-15
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9027264171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmail has become a ubiquitous medium of communication. It is used amongst people from the same speech community, but also between people from different language and cultural backgrounds. When people communicate, they tend to follow rules of speaking in their native language, termed by scholars as pragmatic transfer, which may cause misunderstandings and lead to cross-cultural communication breakdown. This book examines pragmatic transfer by Chinese learners of English at different proficiency levels when writing email requests and refusals. To meet the need for developmental research in L2 pragmatics, it also explores whether pragmatic transfer increases or decreases as language proficiency improves. This book will appeal to researchers and students in interlanguage and intercultural pragmatics, second language acquisition, English as a second/foreign language, and intercultural communication.
Interaction Process and Chinese EFL Learners’ Proficiency Development
Author: Shanshan Gu
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-11-01
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9811068356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides readers a better understanding of the interaction-learning relationship in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. It introduces theories on input, output, and learners’ internal mechanisms, and presents the pedagogical implications of how to adapt focus-on-form instruction in Chinese EFL classrooms. As such, it will be of particular interest to those readers who want to explore the relationship between interaction and language acquisition.
Multi-verb Constructions
Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-12-17
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9004194525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book surveys multi-verb constructions in multiple languages from the Americas, showing a very rich tapestry of typologically unusual constructions, including serial verbs, auxiliaries, co-verbs, phasal verbs. Where possible, a diachronic perspectrive is offered.
Interlanguage Development and Interaction
Author: Yu-zeng Xu
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeveloping Chinese EFL Learners' Generic Competence
Author: Liming Deng
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-05-28
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 3642548458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work investigates the development of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ generic competence in reading, writing and translation within the particular Chinese classroom context. It provides a new perspective for the current teaching and research in reading, writing, translation within the EFL contexts and offers an insightful framework for pedagogical applications in language learning and teaching. Its findings will be extremely valuable not only in local situations, but also more generally in a wider regional and global context as well. The book employs a series of research tools, including pre-research and post-research questionnaires, pre-test and post-test of reading/writing/translation, multi-faceted writing portfolios (including reflection reports), textual analysis and in-depth interviews. It involves 209 participants from a primary university in Wuhan, among whom 171 are undergraduates and 38 are postgraduates. And it draws on the analysis of such varied multi-sourced data both qualitatively and quantitatively. Genre-based teaching is playing a critical role in initiating EFL learners into the discourse community of the target language. Developing EFL learners’ generic competence is viewed as the ultimate goal in the process of teaching and learning. This monograph effectively demonstrates that like genre-based English for Specific Purposes (ESP) pedagogies, it is also possible to take advantage of already acquired genre knowledge for use in EFL learning contexts. It offers an impressive view of the direction in which genre-based applications are likely to take in the coming years.
Researching and Teaching Second Language Speech Acts in the Chinese Context
Author: Cynthia Lee
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-06-02
Total Pages: 123
ISBN-13: 9811089809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contributes to the literature of interlanguage pragmatics by building an interface between researching and teaching speech acts in the Chinese context. It is written for researchers, language educators, classroom teachers and readers who are interested in interlanguage pragmatics research, acquisition and teaching, with particular reference to speech acts performed by Chinese learners of English, and their relationships with the learners’ first language and cultural concepts. It provides a more advanced understanding of the production and development of speech acts of Chinese learners of English from the cross-linguistic, cross-cultural, L1 and L2 developmental perspectives, drawing on relevant second language acquisition theoretical frameworks. It also recommends research-informed pedagogies that are applicable to other learners of English.
The Overuse of English Existentials by EFL College Learners in Taiwan
Author: Min-chieh Chou
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published: 2009-09
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9783838315126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe study aims to identify the causes of Chinese learners' overuse of English there be sentences in their L2 output. The overuse problem is assumed to result from vigorous interaction among the syntax, the semantics, and the discourse function of Mandarin you-sentences and English there be sentences. A cross-linguistic paradigm should best address this cognitive and interactive process of L2 acquisition. The data investigated include a corpus of 60 English essays and a body of elicited L2 data by 260 students at a university in Taiwan. The results indicate that the similarities between the structures of Mandarin you-sentences and there be sentences have contributed considerably to the Chinese learners' excessive use of there be sentences. The discourse function of Mandarin is also proven to have a powerful effect on the learners' overuse of there be sentences. Semantically, the definiteness effect of Mandarin subjects restricts the Chinese learners in applying indefinite subjects in L2 utterances, leading to their overuse of there be sentences. The study provides linguists and language teachers a feasible explanation for an interlanguage phenomenon.
