Interlanguage refers to the knowledge system which is formed in a certain period learners’ second language learning process. The study on interlanguage of great significance field acquisition. This paper elaborates definition and characteristics interlanguage, analyzes five main factors contributing formation interlanguage.The first factor transfer, especially negative transfer; transfer traini...

introduction: children with pragmatic language impairment have problems with appropriate use of language according to age and context. assessment and intervention plans designed to be used with a pragmatically impaired child were discussed in this study. materials and methods: the primary method of data collection adopted in this study was observation method. accordingly, communicative partner ...

It is hard to select and produce appropriate semantic formulas of apologizing for paying off violation social norms restore harmony. seems that it even harder realize such processes selection production in a non-native language. The study three folds; namely, examines the realization apology strategies by students senior Boarding School Arabic English as language, effects on contextual factors ...

the present study is an attempt to explore the effect of one of the pragmatic elements of discourse (namely the conceptualizable agent) on overpassivization of english unaccusative verbs. through employing the questionnaire originally used by ju, (2000), 206 iranian intermediate and advanced english majors were asked to choose the more grammatical form (active or passive) in target sentences wi...

BACKGROUND Significant gaps related to measurement issues are among the most critical barriers to advancing implementation science. Three issues motivated the study aims: (a) the lack of stakeholder involvement in defining pragmatic measure qualities; (b) the dearth of measures, particularly for implementation outcomes; and (c) unknown psychometric and pragmatic strength of existing measures. A...

Having focused previously on attention, cognitively oriented investigations of interlanguage variation and development are turning toward other possible explanatory variabies, such as pianning. The present study reports on an experiment in which two groups of 20 Japanese learners of English as a second language performed two monologic production tasks with and without time for planning. It was ...

The present article demostrates the implementation of a psycholinguistic model of second language learners' interlanguage in an Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) system for studying second language acquisition. We have focused our work on the common interlanguage structures of students at the same language level. The Interlanguage Level Model (ILM) is made up of these stru...

This paper examines the prosodic organization of L2 Japanese produced by L1 Swedish at the beginner level. Japanese and Swedish have been well studied for their prosodic structures and some well-defined prosodic phrases have been proposed. However, these existing prosodic phrases are found to be inadequate in analyzing L2 intonation seen as interlanguage. Instead, it consists of some unique phr...