`Sequence' And `Order' In The Development Of L2 Lexis: Some Evidence From Lexical Confusions  

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Laufer, Batia

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 11 no. 3 (Sep. 1990), page 281-296.
Fulltext: Vol 11, 3, p 281-296.pdf (720.48KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/APL/11 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The study compared native speaking learners of English with foreign learners, with regard to confusions of 'synforms' (similar lexical forms). Tests were designed in which the learners were required to distinguish between synforms of ten categories (ten types of synformic similarity). Hierarchies of difficulty (i.e. the extent to which synforms induced errors) were produced for the ten categories of synforms for the two groups of learners. The orders of difficulty for the two groups (native and foreign) correlated at 0.83 at the 0.01 probability level. A hierarchy of difficulty was also produced for four 'super-categories'. The analysis showed that native speaking learners and foreign learners shared an order of difficulty: suffix synforms created the most difficult synformic distinctions, followed by the vocalic, and then the prefix and consonantal. Adopting the distinction between 'sequence' and 'order' in language acquisition it can be argued that, in learning to distinguish between synforms, all learners, native and foreign, follow a similar sequence, an overall developmental route, although the order within each super-category may differ for each group of learners.

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