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Direct linkGullberg, Marianne – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2006
This paper outlines some reasons for why gestures are relevant to the study of SLA. First, given cross-cultural and cross-linguistic gestural repertoires, gestures can be treated as part of what learners can acquire in a target language. Gestures can therefore be studied as a developing system in their own right both in L2 production and…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Second Languages, Intercultural Communication, Interlanguage
Howard, Martin – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2004
Previous investigations of the variable marking of past time by the L2 learner have given rise to a number of hypotheses which predict the patterns of acquisition and use of past time markers in interlanguage (IL). However, given the complicity between their predictions, it has been previously noted that hypotheses such as the aspect and discourse…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Second Language Learning, Second Languages, Prediction
Bunta, Ferenc; Major, Roy C. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2004
This paper provides an Optimality Theoretic account of how Hungarian learners of English acquire /[epsilon]/ and /[ash]/. It is hypothesized that as the learners' pronunciation becomes more nativelike, L1 transfer substitutions will diminish; non-transfer substitutions will be especially prevalent in the intermediate stages, and that all learners…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Pronunciation
