Research methodologies provoke much debate in cross-cultural and interlanguage pragmatics research. They have different advantages and disadvantages, though the goal of many methodologies remains the controlled elicitation of data that is comparable to real-life production. In this paper an innovative methodology of data collection is proposed—the Naturalized Role-play (hereafter NRP). This met...

The present research investigates the acquisition of the English locative alternation by Korean EFL learners, which poses a learnability paradox taking Pinker’s framework of learnability theory as its basis. It focuses on two questions (1) whether the broad-range and narrow-range semantic constraints are operative in the interlanguage of Korean EFL learners as they are in L1 children’s and (2) ...

The purpose of the study is to find out features phrases in interlanguage Chinese students studying Russian language. By analyzing a number works related term "interlanguage", comparing concept publications various specialists, article "interlanguage" clarified, which has been updated recent years and foreign linguistics, similarities differences their understandings are found. Highlighting stu...

This talk is concerned with using syntactic annotation of learner language and the corresponding target hypothesis to find structural acquisition difficulties in German as a foreign language. Using learner data for the study of acquisition patterns is based on the idea that learners do not produce random output but rather possess a consistent internal grammar (interlanguage; cf. [1] and many ot...

Overall, Ellis's book is quite accessible in that it provides context for the reader in each of the chapters and consistently pOints out how both his and other studies fit into particular paradigms and address (or neglect to address) particular issues. In spite of a multitude of typographical errors, which can be quite disconcerting, the book invites the reader to participate in current SLA deb...

I learned a lot from this book, which is a collection of chapters by a small group of authors loosely based around the notions of the Semantic Web and ontologies and their importance for scholarly and scientific communication and research. I'm not entirely sure, however, what to make of it. On the one hand, it reads like something that might be useful in a graduate library science seminar on th...

The role of implicit and explicit negative feedback in language acquisition has been of major concern, especially in Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Research in SLA has demonstrated that implicit negative feedback such as recast and implicit expansion are potential triggers of language development and learning. Data from two experiments, using a pretest-posttest experimental control design, ...

Recent research in linguistics singles out emotion words as different from other abstract words. The goal of this article is to examine five factors that may impact the use of L2 emotion vocabulary. The first study considers the impact of language proficiency, gender, and extraversion on the use of emotion words in the advanced French interlanguage of 29 Dutch L1 speakers. The second examines t...