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- Title
The Acquisition the English Auxiliary Native Spanish Speakers.
- Authors
Cancino, Herlinda; Rosansky, Ellen J.; Schumann, John H.
- Abstract
The article presents the authors' opinions regarding the acquisition of English auxiliary verbs by native Spanish speakers. In their research on second language acquisition in the U.S., the article authors have been examining the natural, untutored acquisition of English by six native Spanish speakers. The authors analyzed the auxiliary in all six subjects. The auxiliary system occupies an important position in English grammar. It provides the means for the expression of negation and interrogation, and for the expression of emphasis. The authors have described the development of the auxiliary verb as it appears in the declarative, negative and interrogative utterances of Spanish speakers. To determine the order of appearance of the auxiliary in declarative utterances, the authors established a criterion. To establish that an auxiliary has appeared it must be supplied at least 80% of the time in three consecutive samples and in each sample there must be at least two instances of the particular auxiliary under consideration with a total of ten or more auxiliaries in the sample.
- Subjects
ENGLISH auxiliary verbs; ENGLISH as a foreign language; AUXILIARIES (Grammar); FOREIGN language education; LINGUISTICS; GRAMMAR; VERBS; SECOND language acquisition; LANGUAGE arts
- Publication
TESOL Quarterly, 1975, Vol 9, Issue 4, p421
- ISSN
0039-8322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3585626