This thesis is to examine the difficulties my students encounter in their second language acquisition(SLA).Particular attention is paid to the marked features in English for Chinese learners—simple past verb form in ...This thesis is to examine the difficulties my students encounter in their second language acquisition(SLA).Particular attention is paid to the marked features in English for Chinese learners—simple past verb form in morphological category and interrogatives in syntactic category.The Markedness Differential Hypothesis is recommended to explain why the difficulties occur and how the students' L1 has an effect on their L2 learning. Principles of developmental sequences and teachability hypothesis help to explain how the students could succeed in learning these forms.展开更多
It is believed that the similarities and differences between the target language and any other language that has been previously acquired can exert either negative or positive influence on the process of language lear...It is believed that the similarities and differences between the target language and any other language that has been previously acquired can exert either negative or positive influence on the process of language learning. On the basis of a case study, the author thinks that markedness theory can provide a more reasonable explanation to the difficulties and errors learners experienced in their second language learning.展开更多
文摘This thesis is to examine the difficulties my students encounter in their second language acquisition(SLA).Particular attention is paid to the marked features in English for Chinese learners—simple past verb form in morphological category and interrogatives in syntactic category.The Markedness Differential Hypothesis is recommended to explain why the difficulties occur and how the students' L1 has an effect on their L2 learning. Principles of developmental sequences and teachability hypothesis help to explain how the students could succeed in learning these forms.
文摘It is believed that the similarities and differences between the target language and any other language that has been previously acquired can exert either negative or positive influence on the process of language learning. On the basis of a case study, the author thinks that markedness theory can provide a more reasonable explanation to the difficulties and errors learners experienced in their second language learning.
