Elicited Imitation as a Measure of L2 English Learners' Interlanguage Representation of Relative Clauses.

Autor/inn/en	Wong, Bee Eng; Teo, Pauline Hwa Ling
Titel	Elicited Imitation as a Measure of L2 English Learners' Interlanguage Representation of Relative Clauses.
Quelle	In: Electronic journal of foreign language teaching, 9 (2012) 1, S. 91-107 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Anhang; Anmerkungen 2; Tabellen 4
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0219-9874
Schlagwörter	Kompetenz; Empirische Forschung; Testverhalten; Grammatik; Relativsatz; Sprachkompetenz; Zweitsprachenerwerbsforschung; Englisch als Zweitsprache
Abstract	This study examines the use of the Elicited Imitation Test (EIT) to measure second language learners' underlying knowledge of restrictive relative clauses which will reflect their interlanguage representation of this property. Two groups of learners, L1 Malay and L1 Chinese speakers, were involved in the study. To test the suitability of the EIT as a test of such implicit knowledge, the Malay and Chinese speakers were brought through the EIT and a grammaticality judgement test (GJT), an established task often used in second language acquisition studies. The results from both tasks were compared and correlated. The results showed that learners were generally better at judging and imitating grammatical items in both tests and a positive correlation is indeed found between both tests for grammatical items. Scores obtained from both groups of learners were also comparable. However, it was found that learners were less determinate in their judgement and production of ungrammatical items. In general, they were less proficient in their ability to imitate or judge and recast the ungrammatical items correctly. The results indicate that the L1 Malay and L1 Chinese learners of L2 English have interlanguage representations that differ from native speakers' underlying representations of the said property. The results also indicate that although there is no correlation between the two tests in measuring the ungrammatical items, it is proposed that it was actually a factor related to the time allotted for participants to respond to items in the GJT rather than the EIT itself that had resulted in this outcome. (Verlag).
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	2022/2