Markedness Theory And Error Evaluation: And Experimental Study  

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Santos, Terry

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 8 no. 3 (1987), page 207-218.
Fulltext: Vol 8, 3, p 207-218.pdf (717.95KB)

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In recent years, researchers in second-language acquisition have begun to consider the application of linguistic markedness theory to aspects of second language learning. This study seeks to extend markedness theory to the area of error evaluation, more specifically the reactions of native speakers to nonnative- speaker errors. It is hypothesized that there is a directionality of error gravity involving marked and unmarked pairs of forms and structures such that errors reflecting the unmarked-to-marked direction will cause greater irritation than errors reflecting the marked-to-unmarked direction. The study employed a total of five morphological and syntactic structures as unmarked and marked error types in two student compositions and investigated 40professors' reactions to them. The five structures were (I) lst-person/3rd-person singular, (2) singular/plural NP, (3) a/an, (4) infinitive/gerund, and (5)active/passive. The results revealed a significant difference between the errors in the unmarked-to-marked category and the marked-to-unmarked category, as hypothesized on the basis of the psycholinguistic implications of markedness theory, namely, greater complexity of the marked form and greater expectation of the more basic unmarked form.

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