What is it about?
The paper examines whether second language learners fluctuate in article choices for +/-definite and +/-specific contexts. Our results are consistent with previous studies' findings. Chinese learners have difficulty identifying the appropriate article (the and a) for [+definite, -specific] and [-definite, +specific] contexts.
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Why is it important?
Our study is important because it is necessary to replicate previous studies to find out whether a different group of second language learners perform the same or differently on a forced-choice elicitation task.
Perspectives
We hope this adds to the growing literature on article acquisition. We attempt to explain our findings using Distributed Morphology.
Dr Neal Snape
Gunma Prefectural Women's University
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This page is a summary of: A Study on Chinese Students’ Acquisition of English Articles and Interlanguage Syntactic Impairment, Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics, January 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/cjal-2016-0029.
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