Clausal-Packaging of Path of Motion in Second Language Acquisition of Russian and Spanish
Year: 2013
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Given that Mandarin is a verb-serializing language, Russian a satellite-framed language, and Spanish a verb-framed language, the current study examines Mandarin college students ’ acquisition of Russian and Spanish as L2, to understand the strength of L1 preferences for expression of PATH on Russian and Spanish majors ’ second language acquisition in Taiwan. Based on oral narrative data, the study focuses on lexicalization and concatenation preferences in L1 and L2 languages. First, Russian majors ’ morphosyntactic preferences show that L1 Mandarin affects students ’ acquisition of Russian at the elementary level. However, in the acquisition of Spanish, learners ’ native language does not hold strength; Spanish majors ’ morphosyntactic patterning conforms more to that in L2 Spanish for both elementary and intermediate levels. Moreover, the Spanish majors appear to be developing their L2 concatenation patterning in a way that is divergent from the target L2 Spanish. The findings provide a deeper understanding of the different degrees of L1 influence on learners ’ acquisition of L2 Russian and of L2 Spanish at various levels of proficiency.
Institution: National Chengchi University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2275899691