Tesis doctoralsDepartament d'Estudis Anglesos i Alemanys

The Acquisition of Implicit Knowledge by Chinese & Spanish EFL Learners: Experimental Studies on Grammatical Errors in Egnlish questions and Pedagogical Implications

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    Identifier:  TDX:4213
    Authors:  He, Qiaoling
    Abstract:
    The thesis focuses on issues of whether advanced EFL learners can acquire implicit knowledge, whether EFL learners’ different first language (L1) backgrounds influence their acquisition, and whether EFL learners’ language production competence develops simultaneously with their acquisition of grammatical knowledge. By conducting experiments, including written tests, word monitoring test, and elicited oral imitation test, the thesis investigated the implicit knowledge of English questions acquired by Chinese and Spanish advanced EFL learners. The dissertation demonstrates that morphosyntactic features related to the choice of auxiliary and tense of auxiliary constitute the most prevalent challenges for EFL learners to acquire English questions. Cross-linguistic L1 influence, resulting from the L1-L2 morphosyntactic incongruency, is one major factor that affects EFL learners’ acquisition. The experimental finding showing that advanced EFL learners’ production competence does not develop simultaneously with their grammatical knowledge provides further evidence to reinforce the conclusion that advanced EFL learners do not acquire native-equivalent implicit knowledge of English questions. Based on these findings, pedagogical implications related to consciousness-raising, production-oriented approach, and interactive activities are proposed for improving EFL learners’ acquisition of English questions.
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    Publisher: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Date: 2023-03-07, 2023-05-10T11:42:48Z, 2023-05-10T11:42:48Z
    Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10803/688222
    Departament/Institute: Departament d'Estudis Anglesos i Alemanys, Universitat Rovira i Virgili.
    Language: eng
    Author: He, Qiaoling
    Director: Oltra Massuet, Maria Isabel
    Source: TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa)
    Format: application/pdf, 239 p.
  • Keywords:

    English questions
    EFL learners
    Implicit Knowledge
    preguntas en inglés
    aprendientes de inglés como lengua extranjera
    conocimiento implícito
    preguntes en anglès
    aprenents d’ anglès com a llengua estrangera
    coneixement implícit
    Arts i humanitats
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