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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 19:47:25
From: Jolanda Rozendaal [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Traces of transfer?: Vuuren
Title: Traces of transfer?
Subtitle: Pragmatic development in the use of initial adverbials in the interlanguage
of advanced Dutch learners of English
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series
Publication Year: 2017
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/traces-of-transfer
Author: Sanne van Vuuren
Paperback: ISBN: 9789460932 Pages: Price: ----
Abstract:
This thesis investigates the nature of language development at advanced stages
of acquisition by presenting a contrastive and developmental corpus-analysis
of advanced Dutch EFL learners’ use of clause-initial adverbials. It also
looks into the possible underlying causes of Dutch learners’ frequent use of
initial adverbials by considering whether it might be a) a transfer-induced
feature of Dutch English, b) an interlanguage feature shared by learners of
English with other L1 backgrounds, or c) a characteristic of novice writing in
general. The results suggests that it is not so much the overall frequency of
initial adverbials that sets apart advanced Dutch learners’ EFL writing from
the writing of novice and expert native speakers, but the way initial
adverbials are used for discourse linking purposes. There appear to be two
(possibly interrelated) causes of this heavy reliance on initial adverbials to
achieve textual cohesion: transfer and teaching. On the one hand, subtle
traces of transfer at the syntax-pragmatics interface are likely to lie at the
root of advanced Dutch learners’ use of initial adverbials to ‘anchor’ the
sentence in which they occur to an antecedent in the directly preceding
discourse. Dutch learners’ heavy reliance on initial linking adverbials, on
the other hand, appears to be a more widely shared interlanguage feature. This
may be at least partly explained by a largely reductionist approach to
teaching textual cohesion in L2 English coursebooks, in which a focus on
linking words comes at the expense of representative discussion of other
cohesive strategies.
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Language Acquisition
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)
Written In: English (eng)
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