Second Language Acquisition of Quantifiers by Arabic Speakers of English: Feature Reassembly Approach

Autor/in	Albaqami, Rashidah
Titel	Second Language Acquisition of Quantifiers by Arabic Speakers of English: Feature Reassembly Approach
Quelle	In: Arab World English Journal, 11 (2020) 1, S.376-388 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Albaqami, Rashidah)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2229-9327
Schlagwörter	Semitic Languages; Native Language; Form Classes (Languages); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Comparative Analysis; Contrastive Linguistics; Semantics; Nouns; Linguistic Theory; Grammar; Prediction; Validity; Task Analysis; Morphology (Languages); Language Proficiency; Pictorial Stimuli; Sentences; Foreign Countries; Saudi Arabia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arabisch; Hebräisch; Analytischer Sprachbau; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Semantik; Linguistische Theorie; Grammatik; Vorhersage; Gültigkeit; Aufgabenanalyse; Morphology; Morphologie; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Fantasieanregung; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Ausland; Saudi-Arabien
Abstract	This paper reports on an experimental study addressing second language acquisition of English quantifiers by Arabic speakers. Due to several differences found between Arabic and English regarding types, meanings and functions of quantifiers, Arabic learners encounter challenges in mastering them properly. Unlike English, Arabic does not make lots of distinctions among the different meanings that each quantifier might bear; using the same quantifier to bear two or several meanings at the same time. Arabic, for instance, does not differentiate between countable and non-countable nouns using the same modifier in contrast to English. According to the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis (Lardiere 2005, 2009; Choi & Lardiere, 2006), second language (L2) speakers must successfully reassemble existing features of their first language (L1) into the L2 feature-based sets in order to accommodate the L2 grammar. The researcher tests the validity of this prediction for the L2 acquisition of English quantifiers, which requires Arabic learners of English to remap semantic concepts of quantity onto new and different morpholexical configurations. Data from 40 L1 Arabic learners of English at different levels of proficiency and 20 native speakers who completed a picture/sentence matching task suggest that only the meanings which require different and new semantics-morphology remapping is difficult. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01