The use of adverbials in the verbal production of malay ESL learners at the tertiary level /
In the process of learning a second language, it is suggested that there is a standard developmental trajectory for every linguistic feature that L2 learners follow. Although L2 learners experience common stages in their process of acquisition, the rate of attainment in the process is different. In...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Kuala Lumpur :
Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia,
2014
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| Online Access: | Click here to view 1st 24 pages of the thesis. Members can view fulltext at the specified PCs in the library. |
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| Summary: | In the process of learning a second language, it is suggested that there is a standard developmental trajectory for every linguistic feature that L2 learners follow. Although L2 learners experience common stages in their process of acquisition, the rate of attainment in the process is different. In the Malaysian ESL context, the local students at the tertiary institutions have a minimum of 11 years of formal education of English at their primary and secondary levels which should have practically produced many proficient English language users. However, that is not often the case in Malaysia especially among the Malay learners. This study investigates the development of verbal usage of adverbials by Malay ESL learners at the tertiary level. It aims to find out the developmental differences between low and intermediate learners' acquisition of adverbials. Using Processability Theory (Pienemann, 1998; 2005) and taxanomy of adverbials (Celce-Murcia & Larsen-Freeman, 1999) as the frameworks, this study explains the extent to which Malay ESL learners at the tertiary level have developed their use of English adverbials. For data collection purposes, a picture-cued task was administered on 60 Malay ESL students in which they were required to elicit each process in each picture. The results indicate that, in terms of their use of adverbials, most of the Malay ESL students from both proficiency levels were considered to have reached Stage 6 of the Processability Theory developmental stages and only a number of elementary level students were found to have only reached Level 2. The findings suggest that ESL practitioners should follow the developmental routes suggested by the Processability Theory in teaching grammar components to students. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 70 leaves : ill. ; 30cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-67) |