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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| description | 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 the double object dative structure causes difficulty for Arab learners to acquire English as far as the acquisition of the dative alternation is concerned. The experiment is devised to examine whether Arab learners are sensitive to syntactic and semantic properties associated with the English dative alternation. The experiment involved picture tasks with two structures: the prepositional dative structure and the double object dative structure. Overall, the results of the experiment show that the L2 learners failed to acquire the double object dative structure which does not exist in their L1. Based on these results, it is argued that L1 has an important effect on the acquisition of L2. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e4656f5781454cfb8d050aab68fb8e582022-12-22T02:14:42ZengSciendoJournal of Language and Cultural Education1339-45842018-01-0161658810.2478/jolace-2018-0005jolace-2018-0005Second Language Acquisition of the English Dative Alternation by Native Speakers of ArabicAljadani Anwar S.0King Abdulaziz University,Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaThis 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 the double object dative structure causes difficulty for Arab learners to acquire English as far as the acquisition of the dative alternation is concerned. The experiment is devised to examine whether Arab learners are sensitive to syntactic and semantic properties associated with the English dative alternation. The experiment involved picture tasks with two structures: the prepositional dative structure and the double object dative structure. Overall, the results of the experiment show that the L2 learners failed to acquire the double object dative structure which does not exist in their L1. Based on these results, it is argued that L1 has an important effect on the acquisition of L2.https://doi.org/10.2478/jolace-2018-0005second language acquisitionthe dative alternationthe prepositional dative structurethe double object dative structurethe broad range rulesthe narrow range rules |
| spellingShingle | Aljadani Anwar S. Second Language Acquisition of the English Dative Alternation by Native Speakers of Arabic Journal of Language and Cultural Education second language acquisition the dative alternation the prepositional dative structure the double object dative structure the broad range rules the narrow range rules |
| title | Second Language Acquisition of the English Dative Alternation by Native Speakers of Arabic |
| title_full | Second Language Acquisition of the English Dative Alternation by Native Speakers of Arabic |
| title_fullStr | Second Language Acquisition of the English Dative Alternation by Native Speakers of Arabic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Second Language Acquisition of the English Dative Alternation by Native Speakers of Arabic |
| title_short | Second Language Acquisition of the English Dative Alternation by Native Speakers of Arabic |
| title_sort | second language acquisition of the english dative alternation by native speakers of arabic |
| topic | second language acquisition the dative alternation the prepositional dative structure the double object dative structure the broad range rules the narrow range rules |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/jolace-2018-0005 |
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