Second Language Acquisition of the English Dative Alternation by Native Speakers of Arabic

This paper reports on an experimental study that investigates the influence of the disparity between English and Arabic on second language acquisition, namely the phenomenon of the acquisition of the English dative alternation by Arab learners. The disallowance of certain Arabic verbs to occur in th...

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Main Author: Aljadani Anwar S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2018-01-01
Series:Journal of Language and Cultural Education
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/jolace-2018-0005