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The Acquisition of the English dative by Chinese ESL learners.January 1991 (has links)
by Hua Dongfan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references. / Acknowledgments --- p.i / Abstract --- p.i i / Table of Contents --- p.iv / List of tables --- p.vii / Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1. --- The English Dative --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2. --- The Learnability Problem --- p.3 / Chapter 1.3. --- Aims of the Present Study --- p.8 / Chapter Chapter 2. --- Approaches to the Acquisition of the English Dative --- p.13 / Chapter 2.1. --- Approaches to the Acquisition of the English Dative --- p.13 / Chapter 2.1.1. --- An Item-by-item Approach --- p.14 / Chapter 2.1.2. --- A Semantic and Morphophonological Approach --- p.15 / Chapter 2.1.3. --- A Formal Approach --- p.19 / Chapter 2.2. --- Empirical Studies on the Acquisition of the English Dative --- p.22 / Chapter 2.2.1. --- L1 Acquisition of the English Dative --- p.22 / Chapter (a) --- Mazurkewich and White (1984) --- p.22 / Chapter (b) --- White ( 1987 ) --- p.23 / Chapter (c) --- Gropen et al . (1989) --- p.25 / Chapter 2.2.2. --- L2 Acquisition of the English Dative --- p.27 / Chapter (a) --- Mazurkewich ( 1984 ) --- p.27 / Chapter (b) --- Le Compagnon (1984) --- p.28 / Chapter (c) --- Hawkins ( 1987 ) --- p.31 / Chapter Chapter 3. --- Research Design and Procedure --- p.36 / Chapter 3.1. --- Test Design --- p.37 / Chapter 3.1.1. --- Test 1 --- p.38 / Chapter 3.1.2. --- Hypotheses --- p.44 / Chapter 3.2. --- Test 2 --- p.46 / Chapter 3.3. --- Test 3 and Test 4 --- p.47 / Chapter 3.4. --- Cloze Test --- p.50 / Chapter 3.5. --- Subjects --- p.50 / Chapter 3.6. --- Test Procedure --- p.52 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- . Results --- p.54 / Chapter 4.1. --- Scoring Method --- p.54 / Chapter 4.2. --- Results of Test 1 --- p.55 / Chapter 4.2.1. --- Subjects' Judgments of Prepositional Datives --- p.55 / Chapter 4.2.2. --- Subjects' Judgments of Double-object Datives --- p.56 / Chapter 4.2.2.1. --- Performance of Native Speakers --- p.56 / Chapter 4.2.2.2. --- Performance of Secondary Students --- p.57 / Chapter 4.2.2.3. --- Performance of University Students --- p.59 / Chapter 4.2.2.4. --- The Effect of L1 --- p.62 / Chapter 4.3. --- Results of Test 2 --- p.63 / Chapter 4.4. --- Results of Test 3 and Test 4 --- p.64 / Chapter 4.5. --- Summary --- p.67 / Chapter Chapter 5. --- Discussion --- p.71 / Chapter 5.1. --- The Semantic Constraint on the English Dative --- p.71 / Chapter 5.2. --- Overgeneralization and the Learnability Problem --- p.76 / Chapter 5.3. --- L1 Influence on Dative Acquisition by Chinese ESL Learners --- p.81 / Chapter Chapter 6. --- Conclusions --- p.85 / References --- p.89 / Chapter Appendix I. --- Verb Check List --- p.93 / Chapter Appendix IIa. --- Instruction for Test 1 --- p.94 / Chapter Appendix IIb. --- Test Sentences for Test 1 --- p.96 / Chapter Appendix IIIa. --- Instruction for Test 2 --- p.103 / Chapter Appendix IIIb. --- Test Sentences for Test 2 --- p.104 / Chapter Appendix IVa. --- Instruction for Test 3 --- p.107 / Chapter Appendix IVb. --- Test Sentences for Test 3 --- p.108 / Chapter Appendix Va. --- Instruction for Test 4 --- p.110 / Chapter Appendix Vb. --- Test Sentences for Test 4 --- p.111 / Chapter Appendix VI. --- Cloze Test --- p.114
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The effect of explicit instruction on the acquisition of grammatical structures in the Chinese context.January 1989 (has links)
by Zhou Yanping. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1989. / Bibliography: leaves 151-156.
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Attitudes and motivation in the learning of English by Chinese EFL students at the tertiary level.January 1989 (has links)
by Gu Yongqi. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1989. / Bibliography: leaves 145-151.
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A comparison of four methods of cueing on auditory comprehension in English among Form IV students in two Anglo-Chinese schools.January 1974 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.Ed.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong. / Bibliography: leaves 53-57.
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The acquisition of middles and unaccusatives by Cantonese ESL learners.January 1998 (has links)
by Chan Mable. / Thesis submitted in 1997. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-124). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Chapter Chapter1 --- Second Language Acquisition Research: Background to the Present Study / Chapter 1.1 --- Introduction / Chapter 1.2 --- Rationale for the Present Study / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Structures and Properties of Middles and Unaccusative Verbs in English / Chapter 1.2.1.1 --- Derivation of Middles / Chapter 1.2.1.2 --- Derivation of Unaccusative Verb Structures / Chapter 1.2.2 --- Common Properties Shared by Middles and Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter 1.2.3 --- SLA Studies on L2 Acquisition of Middles and Unaccusative Verb Structures / Chapter 1.3 --- Research Issues / Chapter Chapter2 --- Theoretical Issues / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction / Chapter 2.2 --- Why Is It Difficult to Acquire Middles and Unaccusative Verbs? / Chapter 2.2.1 --- "Common Properties shared by Passives, Middles and Unaccusatives" / Chapter 2.2.2 --- "The Differences between Passives, Middles and Unaccusatives" / Chapter 2.3 --- A Comparison of the Middles and Unaccusative Verbs in L1 and L2 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- The issue of L1 Transfer / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Middles in Cantonese / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Unaccusative Verbs in Cantonese / Chapter 2.4 --- Predictions of Difficulties posed by both structures / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Middles / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter Chapter3 --- Methodology and Results / Chapter 3.1 --- Experiment / Chapter 3.2 --- Subjects / Chapter 3.3 --- Procedures / Chapter 3.4 --- Rationale of the Tasks / Chapter 3.4.1 --- The Grammaticality Judgment Task / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Picture Description Task / Chapter 3.5 --- Scoring Method / Chapter 3.6 --- Results of the Picture Description Task / Chapter 3.7 --- Results of the Grammaticality Judgment Task / Chapter 3.8 --- Diagnostics of Middle Constructions and Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter 3.9 --- Prompting Effect / Chapter Chapter4 --- Discussion and Conclusion / Chapter 4.1 --- Research Issues Revisited / Chapter 4.2 --- Acquisition Problem with the Middle Construction / Chapter 4.3 --- Acquisition Problem with Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Paired Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Unpaired Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter 4.4 --- Do L2 Learners have Knowledge of Middle Constructions and Unaccusative Verbs? / Chapter 4.5 --- Developmental Patterns of L2 Learners in Acquiring English Middle Constructions and Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter 4.6 --- Is there L1 Transfer? / Chapter 4.7 --- How to Account for the Difficulties Posed by Middle Constructions and Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter 4.7.1 --- Acquisition of Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter 4.7.2 --- Acquisition of the Middle Constructions / Chapter 4.8 --- Incompleteness' and 'Divergence' in Second Language Acquisition / Chapter 4.9 --- Conclusion / References / Appendix I / Appendix II
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The acquisition of English aspect morphology: an investigation of the developmental routes and the effects of classroom treatment.January 2011 (has links)
Lin, Shuyang. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 161-174). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.ii / 論文摘要 --- p.iv / Acknowledgements --- p.vi / Table of Contents --- p.vii / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Aspect Hypothesis and related acquisition studies --- p.1 / Chapter 1.3 --- L2 learners of English whose native language is Chinese --- p.4 / Chapter 1.4 --- The issue of learning environment on acquisitional sequences --- p.6 / Chapter 1.5 --- Pedagogical issues --- p.7 / Chapter 1.6 --- Purposes of this study --- p.7 / Chapter 1.7 --- Organization of this thesis --- p.9 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.11 / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2 --- Introduction to the tense-aspect terminology --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Tense --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Aspect´ؤgrammatical aspect and lexical aspect --- p.12 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Vendler's four-way classification of verbs --- p.13 / Chapter 2.3 --- Aspect hypothesis and related acquisition studies --- p.15 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Aspect hypothesis --- p.15 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- LI acquisition studies --- p.17 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- L2 acquisition studies --- p.19 / Chapter 2.3.4 --- Acquisitional order --- p.25 / Chapter 2.3.5 --- Accounts for the Aspect Hypothesis --- p.27 / Chapter 2.3.5.1 --- Relevance Principle --- p.27 / Chapter 2.3.5.2 --- Congruence Principle --- p.28 / Chapter 2.3.5.3 --- Determinism --- p.29 / Chapter 2.3.5.4 --- One-to-One Principle --- p.29 / Chapter 2.3.5.5 --- Subset Principle --- p.29 / Chapter 2.3.5.6 --- Distributional biased hypothesis --- p.30 / Chapter 2.3.5.7 --- Discourse motivations --- p.30 / Chapter 2.3.5.8 --- Prototype theory --- p.32 / Chapter 2.4 --- The temporality systems in English and Chinese --- p.32 / Chapter 2.5 --- Acquisition studies on Chinese learners --- p.34 / Chapter 2.6 --- Instructed learners --- p.36 / Chapter 2.7 --- Input --- p.38 / Chapter 2.7.1 --- Impacts of input on the acquisition of tense-aspect morphology --- p.38 / Chapter 2.7.2 --- Input and second language acquisition --- p.40 / Chapter 2.7.3 --- Input enhancement and different ways of making input salient --- p.42 / Chapter 2.7.3.1 --- Positive evidence --- p.44 / Chapter 2.7.3.2 --- Consciousness-raising --- p.47 / Chapter 2.8 --- Summary --- p.47 / Chapter 2.9 --- Research questions --- p.48 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Methodology --- p.49 / Chapter 3.1 --- The pilot study and modification --- p.49 / Chapter 3.2 --- Participants --- p.50 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Participants' consent to attend data collection --- p.51 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Proficiency grouping --- p.51 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Treatment conditions grouping --- p.53 / Chapter 3.3 --- Data elicitation task --- p.53 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Cloze task --- p.54 / Chapter 3.3.1.1 --- Why cloze task --- p.54 / Chapter 3.3.1.2 --- The design --- p.55 / Chapter 3.4 --- Pedagogical treatment --- p.56 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- Positive input --- p.57 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Positive enhanced input --- p.58 / Chapter 3.4.3 --- The design --- p.61 / Chapter 3.5 --- Three conditions of treatment --- p.62 / Chapter 3.6 --- Coding --- p.69 / Chapter 3.7 --- Statistical analysis --- p.70 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Results and Discussions --- p.72 / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.72 / Chapter 4.2 --- Evaluation of the interlanguage aspect morphology of Chinese instructed learners with regards to the Aspect Hypothesis --- p.72 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Use of progressive aspect --- p.73 / Chapter 4.2.1.1 --- Statistics --- p.73 / Chapter 4.2.1.2 --- Developmental routes --- p.76 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Discussions of the findings about progressive marking --- p.78 / Chapter 4.2.2.1 --- Previous findings --- p.78 / Chapter 4.2.2.2 --- Current findings --- p.79 / Chapter 4.2.2.3 --- Comparison between previous and current findings --- p.79 / Chapter 4.2.2.4 --- Different developmental routes of accomplishments and achievements --- p.80 / Chapter 4.2.2.5 --- Use of progressive with states --- p.82 / Chapter 4.2.2.6 --- Possible reasons for the unexpected low appropriacy rate of progressive marking with states --- p.84 / Chapter 4.2.2.7 --- Summary on the use of progressive marking --- p.85 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- Use of perfect aspect --- p.86 / Chapter 4.2.3.1 --- Statistics --- p.86 / Chapter 4.2.4 --- Discussions of the findings about perfect marking --- p.89 / Chapter 4.2.4.1 --- Developmental routes --- p.89 / Chapter 4.2.4.2 --- """Perfect-better-than-progressive"" performance" --- p.90 / Chapter 4.2.4.3 --- "The temporal constituency of a situation the four aspects (perfective, imperfective, progressive, perfect) represent" --- p.90 / Chapter 4.2.4.4 --- Possible explanations for the developmental routes --- p.95 / Chapter 4.2.4.5 --- "Possible explanations for the ""perfect-better-than-progressive"" performance" --- p.97 / Chapter 4.2.4.6 --- Summary on the use of perfect marking --- p.98 / Chapter 4.3 --- Characteristics of the interlanguage aspect morphology of instructed Chinese learners --- p.101 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Influence of LI Chinese on the use of progressive marking with stative verbs --- p.102 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Role of instruction --- p.108 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- Interlanguage aspect morphology of intermediate learners --- p.108 / Chapter 4.4 --- Effects of enhanced positive input on remedying the biased distribution of aspect markings --- p.112 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- Effects of enhanced positive input on progressive marking --- p.115 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- Effects of enhanced positive input on perfect marking --- p.118 / Chapter 4.4.3 --- Summary on progressive and perfect markings --- p.119 / Chapter 4.4.4 --- Why positive input? --- p.120 / Chapter 4.4.5 --- Why enhance input? --- p.122 / Chapter 4.4.6 --- How to enhance input? --- p.124 / Chapter 4.5 --- Comparison of the effects of three treatment conditions --- p.126 / Chapter 4.5.1 --- Introduction --- p.126 / Chapter 4.5.2 --- Design of this study --- p.126 / Chapter 4.5.3 --- Results --- p.128 / Chapter 4.5.3.1 --- Statistics output from SPSS --- p.128 / Chapter 4.5.3.2 --- Effect size --- p.130 / Chapter 4.5.4 --- Interpretation and discussions --- p.136 / Chapter 4.5.4.1 --- "The ""input"" group~the group without explicit rule instruction" --- p.136 / Chapter 4.5.4.2 --- The groups with explicit rule instruction´ؤimmediate effects of deductive and inductive learning --- p.137 / Chapter 4.5.4.3 --- The groups with explicit rule instruction´ؤlong-term effects of deductive and inductive learning --- p.138 / Chapter 4.5.5 --- Summary --- p.140 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Conclusions --- p.142 / Chapter 5.1 --- Answers to research question 1 --- p.142 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- The developmental routes for progressive marking --- p.142 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- The developmental routes for perfect marking --- p.145 / Chapter 5.1.3 --- Summary --- p.145 / Chapter 5.2 --- Answers to research question 2 --- p.146 / Chapter 5.3 --- Answers to research question 3´ؤpart 1 --- p.147 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- Effects of enhanced positive input on use of progressive marking --- p.147 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- Effects of enhanced positive input on use of perfect marking --- p.149 / Chapter 5.3.3 --- Summary --- p.149 / Chapter 5.4 --- Answers to research question 3´ؤpart 2 --- p.150 / Chapter 5.4.1 --- Explanations --- p.152 / Chapter 5.4.2 --- Summary --- p.152 / Chapter 5.5 --- Pedagogical suggestions --- p.153 / Chapter 5.6 --- Limitations --- p.155 / Chapter 5.6.1 --- Participants --- p.155 / Chapter 5.6.1.1 --- For the developmental routes of perfect marking --- p.155 / Chapter 5.6.1.2 --- For the perfect-better-than-progressive performance --- p.156 / Chapter 5.6.2 --- Sessions of treatment --- p.157 / Chapter 5.6.2.1 --- For durable effects of enhanced positive input --- p.157 / Chapter 5.6.2.2 --- For deciding the most facilitative treatment --- p.157 / Chapter 5.7 --- Suggestions for future research directions --- p.158 / Chapter 5.7.1 --- New variables --- p.158 / Chapter 5.7.2 --- Instruction order --- p.159 / Chapter 5.7.3 --- Interplay between LI and lexical aspect influences --- p.160 / References --- p.161 / Appendices --- p.175 / Chapter Appendix A- --- Pre-test --- p.175 / Chapter Appendix B- --- Immediate post-test --- p.178 / Chapter Appendix C- --- Delayed post-test --- p.181 / Chapter Appendix D- --- Input I --- p.185 / Chapter Appendix E- --- Input II --- p.188
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Negative transfer in Chinese students' acquisition of EnglishLaw, Wai Fun Fanny 01 January 1998 (has links)
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Students' perspection of communicative language teaching : a study of the effects of oral communicative activities in a post-secondary EFL classroomYeh, Wai Man Helen 01 January 1999 (has links)
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Genre analysis of the reading passages in two series of textbooks used in Hong Kong and the People's Republic of ChinaTam, Fung Yi May 01 January 2002 (has links)
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A case study on the motivational pattern of learning ESL in S.W.C.S. Chan Pak Sha School-- in application to self access learningChan, Tat Wah Edmond 01 January 2000 (has links)
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