Why and How Grammar Matters for Post-puberty Immigrants with Limited Formal Schooling

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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86963-2_18" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-86963-2_18</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Why and How Grammar Matters for Post-puberty Immigrants with Limited Formal Schooling
Original language description
Grammar provides a basis for oral proficiency and reading comprehen- sion. Research indicates that second language learners—regardless of educational background and age—follow similar developmental routes. In this chapter, we explore the wealth of research from over more than half a century on the acquisition of grammar by post-puberty immigrants with and without formal schooling. To accomplish this, we cover seminal studies of older learners with varying levels of formal education and recent studies of immigrants with little or no formal education acquiring English or Italian. The cross-linguistic comparison between English and Italian shows the developmental progression in their acquisition of morphosyntax through comparable stages, even when one language is more highly inflected than the other. In both English and Italian, learners’ subconscious application of mental mechanisms to the input they receive prompts their creative construction of a new language, even after puberty. In understanding the processes responsible, practitio- ners can see how learners’ errors are a natural and encouraging sign of learners’ progression towards higher levels of second language (L2) competence.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
English and Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education
ISBN
9783030869625
Number of pages of the result
19
Pages from-to
321-339
Number of pages of the book
355
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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