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Role of formal input exposure and onset age in grammaticality judgement

This study examines the effects of formal input exposure and the onset age of exposure on the performance of eleven different morphosyntactic structures in a foreign language setting. It studies whether being exposed to longer hours of formal language classes at a younger age is advantageous for I...

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Main Authors: Vafa Shojamanesh,, Tan, Kim Hua, Khazriyati Salehuddin,
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Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2014
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spelling my-ukm.journal.77472016-12-14T06:45:04Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7747/ Role of formal input exposure and onset age in grammaticality judgement Vafa Shojamanesh, Tan, Kim Hua Khazriyati Salehuddin, This study examines the effects of formal input exposure and the onset age of exposure on the performance of eleven different morphosyntactic structures in a foreign language setting. It studies whether being exposed to longer hours of formal language classes at a younger age is advantageous for Iranian EFL learners. Some studies have claimed that there is no advantage for early starters and in the field of grammatical learning, later starters perform better. Four groups of Iranian learners with different formal learning times participated in this study: Groups A and B were public and private school students, respectively, whereas Groups C and D had extra supplementary classes at language institutes as well. A Grammaticality Judgement Task (GJT) including some grammatical structures which were claimed to be problematic for EFL learners, was used as a tool to determine the possible differences in the performance of grammatical structures of the four groups. A two-way ANCOVA and a one-way ANOVA were used to analyse the data. Results suggest that long hours of formal exposure lead to better grammatical performance and the participants who started learning English at age 9 or below performed better in the GJT. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7747/1/6465-18854-1-PB.pdf Vafa Shojamanesh, and Tan, Kim Hua and Khazriyati Salehuddin, (2014) Role of formal input exposure and onset age in grammaticality judgement. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 20 (3). pp. 177-190. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournals.ukm.my/3l/index
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description This study examines the effects of formal input exposure and the onset age of exposure on the performance of eleven different morphosyntactic structures in a foreign language setting. It studies whether being exposed to longer hours of formal language classes at a younger age is advantageous for Iranian EFL learners. Some studies have claimed that there is no advantage for early starters and in the field of grammatical learning, later starters perform better. Four groups of Iranian learners with different formal learning times participated in this study: Groups A and B were public and private school students, respectively, whereas Groups C and D had extra supplementary classes at language institutes as well. A Grammaticality Judgement Task (GJT) including some grammatical structures which were claimed to be problematic for EFL learners, was used as a tool to determine the possible differences in the performance of grammatical structures of the four groups. A two-way ANCOVA and a one-way ANOVA were used to analyse the data. Results suggest that long hours of formal exposure lead to better grammatical performance and the participants who started learning English at age 9 or below performed better in the GJT.
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author Vafa Shojamanesh,
Tan, Kim Hua
Khazriyati Salehuddin,
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Tan, Kim Hua
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Role of formal input exposure and onset age in grammaticality judgement
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title Role of formal input exposure and onset age in grammaticality judgement
title_short Role of formal input exposure and onset age in grammaticality judgement
title_full Role of formal input exposure and onset age in grammaticality judgement
title_fullStr Role of formal input exposure and onset age in grammaticality judgement
title_full_unstemmed Role of formal input exposure and onset age in grammaticality judgement
title_sort role of formal input exposure and onset age in grammaticality judgement
publisher Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
publishDate 2014
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