The Effect of Second Language Instruction: The Acquisition of Relative Clauses in the Russian Language - Couverture souple

Dunn, Valentina

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3838310993 ISBN 13 : 9783838310992

Editeur : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

The purpose of this research was to test the predictions of the Accessibility Hierarchy (AH) theory (Keenan & Comrie, 1977) applying it to the Russian language. According to this theory, relative clauses are acquired in a fixed unidirectional order. Since some researchers (Hamilton, 1994) claim that the AH is multidirectional, this study takes into consideration these findings as well. In this study, three types of error, incorrect adjacency, incorrect morphological relative clause ending, and pronoun retention, were analyzed separately. In addition, the acquisition of pied-piping structure in the marked relative clauses was investigated. The results of the research support Hamilton?s findings and suggest that generalization is clearly not unidirectional. Regardless of type of instruction the participants of both groups generalized their learning in both directions. However, in pied-piping structure the complex treatment group outperformed the basic treatment group.

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À propos de l'auteur

Valentina Nikolayevna Amelkina Dunn is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Russian and SLA at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA. Her research focus is on second language acquisition and intercultural pragmatics. An excerpt of this study was published in "Mir russkogo slova i russkoe slovo v mire" v. 6 (1), Heron Press: Sofia, 2007.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3838310993
• ISBN 13: 9783838310992
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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