This volume addresses the growing interest amongst second language acquisition
researchers in linguistic relativity. The chapter authors conceptually explore and empirically …

This paper examines article use in the L2-English of adult and child speakers of Russian, an
article-less language. In earlier work on articles in adult L2-English, Ionin, Ko and Wexler …

This study examined the development of automaticity in processing L2 collocations, and the
roles of L1 collocational knowledge and practice conditions in the development process …

The purpose of the study is to examine the potential for teaching articles using lexical
bundles with adult English language learners of varying proficiency levels. Participants were …

This paper presents two experiments in the acquisition of the nominal domain in English by
Japanese and Spanish second language (L2) learners. The first experiment tests the L2 …

The acquisition of articles in English is notoriously difficult for second language (L2) learners
of languages without articles. Early studies by Huebner (1985), Parrish (1987) and Thomas …

This paper attempts to explore the difficulties Chinese speakers have with the acquisition of
English articles by situating itself within three hypotheses by using two tasks; a written forced …

Formulaic language is widely used in academic prose and is known to be a useful measure
of various aspects of language development. This dissertation investigates lexical bundles …

The present paper presents findings on the learning of the differential object marker ra in
Persian as L2 by speakers of LI Romanian. In both Persian and Romanian differential object …

The novelty of Lardiere's proposal does not reside in her so-calledrehabilitation'of
Contrastive Analysis. In generative second language acquisition research, appeal to the …