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Plonsky, Luke; Marsden, Emma; Crowther, Dustin; Gass, Susan M.; Spinner, Patti – Second Language Research, 2020
Judgment tasks (JTs, often called acceptability or grammaticality judgment tasks) are found extensively throughout the history of second language (L2) research. Data from such instruments have been used to investigate a range of hypotheses and phenomena, from generativist theories to instructional effectiveness. Though popular and convenient, JTs…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Decision Making, Task Analysis, Second Language Learning
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Rule, Sarah; Marsden, Emma – Second Language Research, 2006
This cross-sectional study of first language (L1) English adolescents learning French as a second language (L2) uses their development of negatives in relation to finite and non-finite verbs to investigate the status and nature of functional categories in these learners' emerging grammars. Analysing oral data from elicited production tasks from…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Verbs, French, Grammar