A Test of Pienemann and Johnston's Tentative Developmental Stages in ESL Development.

Autor/in	Fetter, Robert
Titel	A Test of Pienemann and Johnston's Tentative Developmental Stages in ESL Development.
Quelle	(1996), (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Case Studies; College Students; English (Second Language); Higher Education; Interpersonal Communication; Korean; Language Skills; Learning Processes; Learning Theories; Second Language Learning; Sequential Learning; Uncommonly Taught Languages + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Collegestudent; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Koreanisch; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Learning process; Lernprozess; Learning theory; Lerntheorie; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Didaktische Sequenzierung; Lernsequenz; Minderheitensprache
Abstract	A study investigated the applicability of the theory of tentative developmental stages in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) development (TDS), which posits specific sequences for specific language features and hypothesizes developmental stages that cut across those sequences. The six stages are defined by specified combinations of three speech processing strategies. The case study involved a native Korean-speaking student enrolled in an intermediate-level ESL course at an American college. Data were drawn from nine transcripts of the subject involved in information-gap tasks with different native-English-speaking and non-native English-speaking interlocutors. Independent clauses were analyzed and grammatical features used were identified according to developmental stage. It was found that while the subject's speech contained features from each of the six stages, 96 percent of stage 1-3 features were present but only 41 percent of stage 4-6 features were found. Because the theory proposes that the developmental stages are "implicational" (i.e., that features from all previous stages have been acquired), the findings do not support the theory. Contains 16 references. (MSE)
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