An investigation into the role of analogy in instructed second language acquisition

Thesis

Usage-based approaches to Second Language Acquisition (SLA) hold that grammatical development can at least in part be explained by a trajectory from initially entrenched formulaic chunks of linguistic material through partially abstract low-scope patterns to abstract constructions. Although earlier empirical research found little to support such a trajectory, more recent research suggests that when the methodological focus is on the breakdown of tokens not on the acquisition of abstract mo...

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Authors: Harris, A; Andrew Harris

• Publication date: 2013
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Usage-Based Approaches; Second Language Acquisition; Task-Based Learning
• Subjects: Applied linguistics