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- Title
Individual Verb Differences in Chinese Learners'Acquisition of English Non-alternating Unaccusatives.
- Authors
Junhua Mo
- Abstract
Individual verb differences in L2 acquisition of English unaccusatives have been neglected by previous studies. This study focuses on such differences by investigating Chinese learners through the combined use of a written production task, an acceptability judgment task, interviews and a textbook corpus survey. It finds that there are significant individual verb differences in Chinese learners' acquisition of English non-alternating unaccusatives. It suggests that the differences are mainly caused by varied lexical frequencies and teachers' explicit instructions.
- Subjects
VERB &; Noun Test (Book); SECOND language acquisition; ENGLISH as a foreign language; TRANSITIVITY (Grammar); ENGLISH linguistic morphology
- Publication
Journal of Language Teaching & Research, 2015, Vol 6, Issue 2, p366
- ISSN
1798-4769
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17507/jltr.0602.17