The aim of this study is twofold: firstly, to provide an overview of research findings on the acquisition and use of articles in English as a second language; secondly, to investigate this issue from a phraseological perspective. The book also presents an examination of various linguistic accounts of the English article system with respect to their application to English language teaching. In view of the growing body of theoretical and empirical studies indicating that language use is to a considerable degree phraseologically motivated, this book argues for a connection between formulaicity and correct article use. This possibility is explored in two studies presented in the final chapter, which suggest that correctness in the use of articles depends on the frequency of the phrases in which they appear. These findings support the view that frequency-driven conventionality in language may play a role in the acquisition and use of articles in L2 English.
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Articles: Descriptive approaches
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. The classification of articles as partsof speech and sentences
- 1.3. The indefinite article
- 1.4. The definite article
- 1.5. The zero article / bare noun phrase
- 1.6. Conclusions
- Key conceptsin the study of articles
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Reference
- 2.3. Information flow
- 2.4. Countability
- 2.5. Definiteness
- 2.6. Conclusions
- Other approaches to articles
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Socio-pragmatic approaches
- 3.3. Cognitive accounts of definite article use
- 3.4. The generative tradition
- 3.5. Corpus-based perspectives
- 3.6. Conclusions
- Articles as a source of difficulty in SLA
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Theoretical approaches to difficulty
- 4.3. Implicit versus explicit learningand knowledge
- 4.4. Conclusions
- Articles in SLA research
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Crosslinguistic aspects
- 5.3. Semantic universals and the acquisitionof articles
- 5.4. The sequence of acquisition of articlesin L1 and L2 English
- 5.5. Studies on countability
- 5.6. Abstractness
- 5.7. Articles and learners’ interim rules
- 5.8. Type of task
- 5.9. Lexical chunks
- 5.10. Conclusions
- Articles and ESL teaching
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Articles and the efficacy of correctivefeedback
- 6.3. Other treatments and recommendationsconcerning the teaching of articles
- 6.4. The treatment of articles in teachingmaterials and pedagogical grammars
- 6.5. Conclusions
- Formulaicity
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Speaker-external formulaicity
- 7.3. Speaker-internal formulaicity
- 7.4. Formulaicity, frequency and recenttrends in linguistics
- 7.5. Formulaic language in L2 speakers
- 7.6. Formulaicity and second languageteaching: A brief history
- 7.7. Articles and formulaicity
- 7.8. Conclusions
- Investigating article useby advanced Polish learners of EFL:The role of formulaicity
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Study 1
- 8.3. Study 2
- Conclusion
- References
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
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