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dc.contributor.advisorRodina, Yulia
dc.contributor.advisorLoe Olsen, Christopher
dc.contributor.authorNygaard, Maren Oline
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-06T07:54:10Z
dc.date.available2019-09-06T07:54:10Z
dc.date.issued2019-05-12
dc.description.abstractIn this master’s thesis, I investigate L1 Norwegian learners of L2 English and their difficulties with subject-verb agreement. The main aim of this study is to explore why this grammatical construction is problematic in L2 English and whether grammar instruction will affect the learners’ knowledge and accuracy of subject-verb agreement. The study combines insights and methods from linguistics and language acquisition as well as from language didactics and pedagogics. This thesis will look at the acquisition of subject-verb agreement, but also examine the role of grammar instruction, and emphasis will be given to the pedagogical domain and language instruction in the English classroom in Norwegian upper secondary school. I collected data using an acceptability judgment task conducted twice, before the teaching intervention (pre-test) and immediately after it (post-test). The teaching intervention consists of two sessions, 90 minutes each, with explicit grammar teaching and tasks. The results suggest that subject-verb agreement is learnable and teachable and gives an indication of which subject-verb agreement structures that are more problematic to learn and thus requires more attention in the English language classroom.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/16101
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten_US
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2019 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDENG-3982
dc.subjectSecond language acquisitionen_US
dc.subjectSubject-verb agreementen_US
dc.subjectInterventionen_US
dc.subjectGrammar instructionen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::English language: 020en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Engelsk språk: 020en_US
dc.titleThe effects of grammar instruction when learning L2 English subject-verb agreement. An investigation of L1 Norwegian learners' acquisition of L2 Englishen_US
dc.typeMaster thesisen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen_US


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