NDLI: Revisiting Fluctuations in L2 Article Choice in L1-Korean L2-English Learners

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Author	Sarker, Bijon K. Baek, Seunghyun
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	The current study investigated the distinction of L2 (second language) English article choice sensitivity in fifty-three L1-Korean L2-English learners in semantic contexts. In the context of English as a foreign language, the participants were divided into two groups based on grammatical ability as determined by their performance on a cloze test. In addition, a forced-choice elicitation test and a writing production test were administered to assess, respectively, the participants’ receptive and productive article choice abilities. Regardless of grammatical ability, the results disclosed the overuse of the indefinite a in the [ $$+$$ definite, −specific] context and the definite the in the [−definite, $$+$$ specific] context on the forced-choice elicitation test. In the [ $$+$$ definite, $$+$$ specific] and [−definite, −specific] contexts, however, the overuse of either the indefinite a or the definite the, respectively, was less likely. Furthermore, it was revealed on the writing test that the participants more accurately used the definite the than the indefinite a, and they were also found to unreasonably omit more articles than to add or substitute articles on the writing production test. The findings across the two tests indicate that L1-Korean L2-English learners are more likely to have intrinsic difficulties transferring their L1 noun phrase (NP) knowledge to L2 NP knowledge owing to structural discrepancies and complex interfaces between L1 NPs and L2 NPs with respect to syntactic, semantic and pragmatic/discourse language subsystems.
Starting Page	367
Ending Page	393
Page Count	27
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00906905
Journal	Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
Volume Number	46
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15736555
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2016-06-25
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Definiteness Topicalization Article choice variability Psychology Cognitive Psychology Psycholinguistics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Linguistics and Language

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