The present study examines transfer errors at the levels of phonetics and syntax in the interlanguage of 10 fourteen-year-old Basque/Spanish bilinguals who have been learning English for 7 years in a formal school context in the Basque Country. Analyses showed that learners display L1 effects in the acquisition of both English phonetics and syntax, even though phonetic transfer errors (replacem...

This proposal paper is being presented in partial ful llment of the Ph.D. requirements of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware. In this paper, I discuss a user modeling architecture for ICICLE, a natural language system intended for use as a writing tutor for deaf learners of written English. This proposed design, intended to model dynamic aspects of...

This study examines the acquisition process of L2 Japanese intonation by Swedish learners at intermediate and advanced levels. Regarding the realization of L2 intonation as ‘interlanguage’, it focuses on the acquisition process of various parameters and their phonetic realizations that are relevant in determining Japanese intonation. The parameters can be phonological, syntactic, and discourse ...

This study will investigate how non-native speakers of Japanese acquire Japanese accentuation from the viewpoint of the location of the accent nucleus. Hypothetical models for the process of generation and for developmental sequence of interlanguage Japanese accentuation, which is interim accentual system created by learners, will be proposed. The subjects appear to generate their interlanguage...

This paper explores the role of corrective feedback in communicative language classrooms. Seven empirical studies investigating the effectiveness of corrective feedback are examined to determine if corrective feedback can lead to substantial changes in learners’ interlanguage systems over the long term and to find out what factors are necessary for effective feedback. The review of literature r...

Sometimes the students of ESP or Non-English majoring error in using tenses. The low level students' understanding tense is one factors that greatly influences errors making sentences. objective this research was to describe students’ and its causes In research, writers used a qualitative method form descriptive analysis (percentage) included observation, collecting test, analyzing, interpretin...

This paper reports on a preliminary study on second language (L2) learners’ interlanguage pragmatic (ILP) development in academic written discourse by examining how epistemic modality is used by non-native speaker (NNS) writers compared with NS writers in both native speaker (NS) and NNS corpus data. This study also investigates how NNS writers gradually develop interlanguage pragmatic competen...