Knowledge of Indefinite Articles in L2-English: Online vs. Offline Performance

Autor/inn/en	Ionin, Tania; Choi, Sea Hee; Liu, Qiufen
Titel	Knowledge of Indefinite Articles in L2-English: Online vs. Offline Performance
Quelle	In: Second Language Research, 37 (2021) 1, S.121-160 (40 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ionin, Tania)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0267-6583
DOI	10.1177/0267658319857466
Schlagwörter	Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Grammar; Interlanguage; Native Language; English (Second Language); Form Classes (Languages); Mandarin Chinese; Error Analysis (Language); Task Analysis; Morphology (Languages); Decision Making; Psycholinguistics; Transfer of Training; Language Classification; Language Proficiency; Language Tests; Nouns; Phrase Structure; College Students; Computer Assisted Testing + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Grammatik; Zielsprache; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Analytischer Sprachbau; Error analysis; Language; Fehleranalyse; Aufgabenanalyse; Morphology; Morphologie; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Psycholinguistik; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Sprachtypologie; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Language test; Sprachtest; Phrasenstruktur; Collegestudent
Abstract	This study uses both offline and online tasks in order to investigate whether second language learners of English from an article-less first-language (Mandarin) are able to integrate the indefinite article into their grammar despite the lack of articles in their first language. This article reports on two studies, one on learners' sensitivity to errors of article omission and one on learners' sensitivity to errors of article misuse. The results indicate that learners show quite native-like sensitivity to errors with articles online, and in fact perform in a more target-like manner in an online task than in a traditional offline judgment task. The findings of this study provide evidence against the Morphological Congruency Hypothesis in that they indicate that learners can represent a new morphological category (in this case, the indefinite article) in their Interlanguage grammar. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01