Linguistic analyses suggest that the nongeneric use of the English definite article the falls
into four major categories: cultural, situation, structural, and textual. This study aims to …

The English article system can be taught as a binary division between classification (a and
Ø) and identification (the). All the other elements of article usage can be understood within …

This paper describes several reasons for the difficulty non-native speakers of English have
in acquiring the English article system and reviews five pedagogical methods for teaching …

This paper reports on a study designed to investigate psychological factors that affect access
to metalinguistic knowledge in second language (L2) production. Based on previous …

Despite high frequency and early input, English articles (the, a, and the zero article Ø)
remain a generally acknowledged marked feature for [–Article] Chinese learners. The …

In this paper we investigate the use of the English article system in two comparable learner
corpora, Chinese-English and Spanish-English. Such investigation is significant as article …

A study of definite and indefinite articles is one of the most problematic areas in the fields of
syntax, grammar, and translation. No doubt, the articles system differs greatly from one …

Abstract Based on Bickerton's (1981) Semantic Wheel Model, the study collected Chinese
learners' performance on an article test, and then made a semantic analysis of the results …

. Many writing teachers desire to know which article errors need to be corrected because
they are unacceptable in all circumstances (and which may prejudice the reader against the …

This study aimed to investigate the acquisition of the four non-generic uses of the English
definite article the by Arabic learners of English in Saudi Arabia. These non-generic uses …