The Effects of L2 Instruction on the Reduction of Problematic Optionality in the Use of L2 Verbal Inflections

第二語言教學對第二語言動詞形態上減少問題選擇之影響

Masoud Rahimi Domakani

《Concentric： Studies in Linguistics》 33卷1期 (2007/01) Pp. 47-65

https://doi.org/10.6241/concentric.ling.200701_33(1).0003

摘要

當前第二語言學習的研究致力於解釋不同類型的第二語言學習者在使用語言特徵時所造成的選擇困難。本研究著重於兩種主要的詞形變化表（MSIH以及FFFH）在動詞形態上的可選擇性，並探討第二語言學習者在使用動詞形態上不一致的原因。除了針對兩種詞形變化表的假設加以討論外，此研究也著眼於檢視第二語言教學的實施能否減免學習者類型的歧異性，並評估詞形變化表的有效性程度。基於上述理由，此研究試圖達成兩個不同卻同等重要的目的：其一，對於現行有關使用第二語言動詞形態的問題選擇之詞形變化表提供更多解釋；其二，探究在教學上的補救方法，以處理造成選擇困難的歧異類型。本研究的實驗對象選取自表面上在使用口語與書面語忽略動詞形態的學生，並將他們平均且隨機地分入三類組別：控制組、強化輸入組、強化輸入暨練習組。研究結果發現，儘管這樣的改變可能是短暫的，且動詞形態的使用似乎較不受第二語言教學的影響，明確的指導或教學的確能使提高學習者的意識。

關鍵字

第二語言教學 ； 問題選擇 ； 第二語言 ； 動詞形態

並列摘要

Current research in second language (L2) learning has attempted to account for the divergent forms of L2 learners born out of problematic optionality in the use of linguistic features. This study concerns two dominant paradigms (MSIH and FFFH) on the optionality in the suppliance of verbal inflections and investigates why L2 learners are inconsistent in the use of verbal inflections. Having fully discussed the postulations of the two paradigms, the study also aims to see if it is possible to circumvent the non-convergent forms by implementing L2 instruction and to assess the degree of the validity of the paradigms. On this account, this study seeks to achieve two different but commensurable objectives. One is to shed more light on the current paradigms concerning problematic optionality in the use of L2 verbal inflections; and the other is to investigate a pedagogical remedy to cope with the non-convergent forms born out of problematic optionality. The experimental subjects were selected from students who ostensibly ignored the verbal inflections in their oral and written production. They were equally and randomly assigned to three groups: control group (CG), input enhancement (IE) group and input enhancement plus practice (IE/P) group. The findings show that awareness, born out of explicit instruction, could develop more although this change seems to be short-lived and verbal inflections seem to be less amenable to L2 instruction.

並列關鍵字

L2 instruction ； problematic optionality ； second language ； verbal inflections

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