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dc.contributor.advisorRodina, Yulia
dc.contributor.authorLajord, Kristine Karlsen
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-06T07:58:28Z
dc.date.available2019-09-06T07:58:28Z
dc.date.issued2019-05-15
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis, I investigate the effect of explicit instruction on the acquisition of word order in declarative sentences with adverbs in the medial position and topicalised declaratives. Both constructions are shown to be problematic for Norwegian learners of English because of negative influence from Norwegian, which uses the V2 rule in the two structures. The study consists of a grammaticality judgment pre- and posttest and an intervention. The intervention focuses on explicit word order teaching, exposure to positive and negative evidence, as well as error correction. The thesis investigates techniques appropriate to teach problematic sentence structures and to investigate their effectiveness in the classroom. The results of the intervention show that the participants improve the most with detecting ungrammaticality. This is especially clear for the lower proficiency learners. I can thus conclude that the intervention has a positive effect on learning word order in the L2 English classroom. At the same time the results of the present study reveal that many of the participants has high language proficiency and near-target like knowledge of word order from the start. Therefore the intervention does not reveal significant improvement in the higher proficiency learners.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/16103
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.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Engelsk språk: 020en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::English language: 020en_US
dc.subjectSecond language acquisitionen_US
dc.subjectClassroom interventionen_US
dc.subjectWord orderen_US
dc.subjectNorwegianen_US
dc.subjectEnglishen_US
dc.titleExplicit grammar instruction in the L2 classroom. Issues in teaching and learning English word orderen_US
dc.typeMaster thesisen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen_US


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