27.1018, Books: The Acquisition of Passive Constructions in L2 English by Mandarin Speakers: Wang

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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 14:19:06
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: The Acquisition of Passive Constructions in L2 English by Mandarin Speakers: Wang

Title: The Acquisition of Passive Constructions in L2 English by
Mandarin Speakers 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Language Acquisition 35  

Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu

Book URL: http://bit.ly/21xtlki 

Author: Kenny Wang

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862886760 Pages: 371 Price: Europe EURO 76.80

Abstract:

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

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Language Acquisition
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English  (eng)

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