Noun-adjective agreement in L2 Greek and the effect of input-based instruction
Part of : Εφαρμοσμένη γλωσσολογία ; No.24, 2008, pages 9-33
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9-33
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We investigated the non-native acquisition of adjective-noun agreement in Greek and whether this interlanguage structure was affected by input-based, meaning-oriented instruction. The participants were adults from an array of mother tongues and with low intermediate proficiency in Greek. The findings from three production tasks showed that the main errors consisted in phonological matching between the adjectival and the nominal inflectional morphemes, as well as in inflecting the adjective with a suffix -o, underspecified for agreement features. There were no important differences with respect to errors in gender, number or case features. A group of the learners received Processing Instruction and another group received Focus on Form instruction. Results showed significant learner improvement for both types of instruction but more for the Focus on Form one. Also, instruction type affected learner errors differentially.
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Περιέχει σχήματα, πίνακες, παράρτημα και βιβλιογραφία
