The acquisition of the Determiner Phrase in Bilingual and Second Language French

L1 proximity and syntactic complexity in L2 Italian acquisition

Studies on second language acquisition suggest that clitic pronouns are challenging syntactic elements for L2ers to acquire. This study examines the acquisition of Italian accusative clitics by Spanish and Swedish L2ers. Extending Romano’s (2020) research on Swedish speakers, it employs an oral structural primin...

An Investigation of L2 Preposition Usage and Error Types: The Case of Turkish-English Bilinguals

Acquiring L2 prepositions is a complex process, as bilinguals often find it difficult to use the correct preposition in a target language such as English. While frequency of prepositions and prepositional phrases can help this acquisition process, additional factors such as L1 influence also play an important role. Fur...

Speaking about the past in English as a Foreign Language

This study investigates how French secondary school learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL)(14 year-olds, levels A1+ to B1+) develop the ability to refer to the past during social interactions. Based on a corpus of video-recorded peer interactions, our cross-sectional study integrates tools from an enunc...

Error Patterns in Negation in Russian Learners: A Comparison of Non-Native and Heritage Speakers

This article addresses the acquisition of the category of negation in Russian by two distinct groups of learners – non-native speakers and heritage speakers. Drawing on corpus-based data from the Russian Learner Corpus (RLC), the study explores structural and developmental patterns in the use of negation across differe...

JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC STUDIES

The present study tackles category shifts in simultaneous interpreting in one of the Canadian Prime Minster, Justin Trudeau's, speeches. Translation shifts, especially category shifts, are very common in simultaneous interpreting from English into Arabic. The four types of category shifts, i.e., structure shifts, unit...

PHRASEOLOGY IN SECOND LANGUAGE