A Case Study of English Articles Acquisition of Two Indonesian English Teachers  

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Sondari, Parawati Siti

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 61st TEFLIN International Conference : English Language Curriculum Development: Implications for Innovations in Language Policy and Planning, Pedagogical Practices, and Teacher Professional Development, Solo, 7 - 9 October 2014, page 1322-1327 .
Topik: article choice; SLA; forced-choice elicitation task; definiteness; specificity
Fulltext: A CASE STUDY OF ENGLISH ARTICLES ACQUISITION.pdf (8.1MB)

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This study attempts to look into the article choice of a/an, the, and Ø and their acquisition by two Indonesian English teachers. The participants of this study, i.e. teacher 1 and teacher 2, are two experienced Indonesian English teachers with different proficiency levels, i.e. upper-intermediate and advanced respectively. The primary data collection instrument was a 160-item forced-choice elicitation task (Ionin, Ko, and Wexler, 2004; Snape, 2005; Pongpairoj, 2007; White, 2009) controlled in its semantic contexts of definiteness [+def] and specificity [+spec] and video-taped observation of article use in the class. Based on the findings, both teachers have acquired definite article the yet have shown variability in their use of a/an and Ø as suggested by both the forced-choice elicitation task and the observation data. They could consistently indicate accuracy of the in most cases yet the uses of a/an and Ø were contrastingly different in the two sources of data. In addition, teacher 1 substantiated the-flooding (Chaudron & Parker, 1990; Huebner, 1983; Master, 1987; Young, 1996 in White, 2009) and more omission errors of a/an, while teacher 2 demonstrated more comission errors of overusing a/an instead of omission errors. Such findings contribute to the growing body of article choice research and the pedagogical practice of teaching articles.

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