Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: Continuity Hypotheses Revisited: English L2 Acquisition of Bulgarian Nominal Domain

博士论文研究改进资助：重新审视连续性假设：保加利亚语名义领域的英语 L2 习得

• 批准号: 0446667
• 负责人: Stanley Dubinsky
• 金额: $ 1.19万
• 依托单位: University South Carolina Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-03-01 至 2007-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0446667&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Improvement; Grants

With NSF support and under the direction of Stanley Dubinsky and Hyeson Park. Ms. Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva will investigate the second language (L2) acquisition of the Bulgarian noun phrase by adult native speakers of English. The goals of this research are: (i) to test a new variant of the dynamic approach to the L2 acquisition of Bulgarian nominal structure, including the timing and order of acquisition of gender and number agreement, possessives, and definite determiners. The study will use a unique pool of subjects-US Peace Corps volunteers exposed to the target language through both immersion and classroom instruction. This research will be among a few studies to focus on the very early stages of L2 acquisition-three to four weeks after subjects' first exposure to the target language. Subjects will be tested before and after exposure to (somewhat) formal grammar instruction in the classroom. Thus, the study will utilize both naturally occurring data and data from a controlled classroom environmentThis study promises several important results: (i) it adds to our knowledge of the cognitive processes involved in the L2 acquisition of the grammatical structure; (ii) it will contribute to our understanding of the acquisition and syntactic structure of Slavic languages; (iii) where most L2 acquisition studies are concerned with the grammatical properties gender and number, definiteness, or possessives in isolation, this research will consider the acquisition of these properties in relations to one another; and (iv) it will inform foreign language teaching practices and help to answer long-standing questions regarding the role of input type (instructed versus natural) in L2 acquisition.

在NSF的支持下，在Stanley Dubinsky和Hyeson Park的指导下。米拉·塔塞娃-库尔奇耶娃女士将调查以英语为母语的成年人对保加利亚语名词短语的第二语言（L2）习得。本研究的目的是：（1）测试保加利亚语名词性结构习得的动态方法的一个新变体，包括习得性和数一致、所有格和限定词的时间和顺序。这项研究将使用一个独特的受试者池-美国和平队志愿者通过浸入和课堂教学接触目标语言。这项研究将是少数几项关注二语习得早期阶段的研究之一，即受试者第一次接触目标语言后的三到四周。受试者将在课堂上接受（某种程度上）正式语法教学之前和之后接受测试。因此，本研究将利用自然发生的数据和来自受控课堂环境的数据。（iii）大多数第二语言习得研究关注的是语法属性性别和数量、限定性或所有格，而本研究将考虑这些语法属性之间的相互关系;以及（iv）它将为外语教学实践提供信息，并有助于回答长期存在的关于输入类型（指令型与自然型）在第二语言习得中的作用的问题。