The Patterns of Acquisition of Syntactic Regularities in Pre-Secondary School Second Language Learners of English

The Patterns of Acquisition of Syntactic Regularities in Pre-Secondary School Second Language Learners of English

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The learning of complex syntactic structures of English by L2 learners have not been systematically dealt with in the available literature. This study investigated this problem, with the aim of replicating some works done in the L1, in order to determine their feasibility in the L2 perspective. Limited to a small sample, the study examined the developmental stages in the acquisition of...
 
Published at Covenant Journal of Language Studies
Volume 5
Issue 1
Pages 17-31
Published in 2017
 
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Emmanuel Uba, Edwin Onwuka & Oluwasegun Omidiora
Onwuka Edwin C.
 
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