An Investigation of the Learnability of Relative Clauses by EFL Learners  

Oleh:

Abdolmanafi (Rokni), S.J. ; Rahmani, Z.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: World Journal of English Language vol. 2 no. 3 (2012), page 29-37.
Topik: Relative clause; Restrictive/nonrestrictive relative clauses; Relative pronoun
Fulltext: 1822-5733-1-SM.pdf (227.65KB)

Isi artikel

Relative clauses as complex syntactic structures in human languages have attracted the attention of a lot of second language acquisition researchers. They are difficult for learners to produce, comprehend and imitate. The present study was an attempt to investigate the learnability of the English relative clauses by Persian learners. After discussing the importance of relative clauses, the role it plays in language acquisition, the hypotheses were proposed and investigated. The findings show that the acquisition or frequency rank order of four types of relative clauses was OS > OO > SS > SO, and that OS and OO relative clause types would be easier to acquire than SS and SO types.

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