On the Source of U-Shape Learning in Interlanguage Processing: A Pilot Study on the L2 Acquisition of Number Agreement in French by Jordanian Arabic Learners

This paper investigates the L2 acquisition of morphosyntax number agreement French by L1 learners. The study is based on a pilot that learners’ knowledge two paradigms subject-verb in French: so-called matching paradigm which expressed audibly via an alternation verb stem between singular and plural forms mismatching not audible realized vs. alternation. We discussed our sample’s proficiency (de-)normalizing implications it has for theory corrective feedback linguistic input processing Language acquisition.