The Linguistics Journal Testing the Natural Order Hypothesis on the Framework of the Competition Model
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The issue of natural order in acquiring some morphemes in English has been a controversial one in psycholinguistics and applied linguistics. This article seeks to test Krashen’s Natural Order Hypothesis employing the Competition Model among two age groups of pre-adolescent and adult age in an EFL setting. Research on this issue has been mostly conducted in ESL settings and the results have been generalized to EFL environments. The present study conducted with 60 Iranian EFL learners in two different age groups of 12 to 13 and 17 above. The participants were asked to say the sentences they heard and meanwhile apply changes wherever necessary. The results showed that, contrary to what Krashen has claimed neither plural –s nor third person –s appears to be acquired earlier.
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