On Acquisition of Russian Cases by American Classroom Learners  

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Rubinstein, George

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching vol. 33 no. 1 (Feb. 1995), page 9-34.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/IRA/33 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This paper describes a study of the oral speech of 136 adult American learners of Russian. The study was aimed at determining the accuracy order of Russian cases. Two groups of midcourse learners (ML; N=73) and two groups of endcourse learners (EL; N=63) were interviewed with the same instrument eliciting the use of the oblique cases. The oral performance of ML and EL was compared by a detailed statistical analysis of their group scores and group means. The study demonstrated that there is an order of accuracy common to both ML and E1. According to the decreasing accuracy, the Russian cases cluster in three rank orders: 1. Prepositional and Accusative; 2. Genitive and Instrumental; 3. Dative. This order differs from the acquisition order of Russian children. An attempt to find an explanation for the observed accuracy order in the morphological and semantic simplicity of the cases, in the order of their presentation, in their external and internal frequencies, and in the effect of L1 has shown that these factors are to a certain extent related to the accuracy of the learner use of specific cases. Although none of these factors alone can account for the observed accuracy order, the latter may be a result of their combined effect.

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