Marsden, H., Whong, M. and Gil, K.H. (2018) What's in the textbook and what's in the mind: polarity item “any” in learner English. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 40 (1). pp. 1-28. ISSN 0272-2631
Abstract
This paper presents an experimental study of the rarely explored question of how input through instruction interacts with L2 acquisition at the level of modular linguistic knowledge. The investigation focuses on L2 knowledge of the English polarity item any, whose properties are only partially covered by typical language-teaching materials. We investigate Najdi-Saudi Arabic-speaking learners’ knowledge of the distribution of any in contexts that are taught, contexts that are not taught but may be observable in the input, and contexts that are neither taught nor observable. We further test whether conscious awareness of instructed rules about any correlates with performance. Our findings suggest a role for instruction and for internal, UG-constrained acquisition, and that these two paths interact. We explore our findings in terms of Sharwood Smith and Truscott’s (2014a, 2014b) framework of modular online growth and use of language, in which cognitive development is driven by processing.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Cambridge University Press . This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Studies in Second Language Acquisition. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 16 Jun 2017 10:42 |
Last Modified: | 28 Jul 2023 14:25 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S0272263117000018 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:117806 |
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