Overpassivisation in L2 Acquisition: An Examination of L1 Malay ESL Tertiary Students' Passivisation of Intransitive Verbs in English.
Overpassivisation, a phenomenon in which passive morphology is applied to intransitive verbs, is a common feature in the interlanguage of L2 English learners. This study examines overpassivisation among L1 Malay ESL tertiary students concerning the type of intransitive verb and English proficiency l...
| Publicado en: | Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 995 - 1014 |
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Universiti Putra Malaysia
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=172341697&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 172341697 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 01287702 TKQ jtl: Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities issn: 01287702 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2023 vid: 31 iid: 3 pid: 20751 pub: Universiti Putra Malaysia artinfo: ui: 172341697 10.47836/pjssh.31.3.05 ppf: 995 ppct: 19 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 4.2MB tig: atl: Overpassivisation in L2 Acquisition: An Examination of L1 Malay ESL Tertiary Students' Passivisation of Intransitive Verbs in English. aug: au: Mahdun, Mahanum Mei Yuit Chan Ngee Thai Yap Bee Eng Wong Kasim, Zalina Mohd affil: Department of English, Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia Department of English Language and Communication, Faculty of Management and Muamalah, Selangor International Islamic University College, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia Department of Education, Faculty of Social Sciences and Liberal Arts, UCSI University, 56000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia su: Second language acquisition English as a foreign language Verbs English language education Interlanguage (Language learning) Malays (Asian people) Language ability College students sug: subj: Second language acquisition English as a foreign language Verbs English language education Interlanguage (Language learning) Malays (Asian people) Language ability College students keyword: English passive interlanguage development intransitive verbs Malay ESL learners overpassivisation errors second language acquisition ab: Overpassivisation, a phenomenon in which passive morphology is applied to intransitive verbs, is a common feature in the interlanguage of L2 English learners. This study examines overpassivisation among L1 Malay ESL tertiary students concerning the type of intransitive verb and English proficiency level. A total of 499 L1 Malay ESL students in higher educational institutions in Malaysia completed a grammaticality judgment test involving items with unaccusative and unergative verbs. The students have completed at least 10 years of formal English instruction in school and have considerably more exposure to English than ESL learners in a foreign language setting. As predicted, the participants overgeneralised passive morphology to the intransitive verbs, and more so with unaccusative than unergative verbs. Further, students' competence in rejecting overpassivised forms decreased with learners' increasing proficiency in English. The findings show that while overpassivisation is committed by the L1 Malay ESL students, unaccusative verbs contribute more to overpassivisation than unergative verbs. It indicates learners' processing of the different underlying structures of the two classes of verbs. Also, the passive rule is progressively acquired as a reduction of overpassivisation is observed for both verb types with increasing English proficiency. L1 Malay ESL tertiary students in Malaysia at lower English proficiency levels have yet to work out intransitive structures, particularly those involving unaccusative verbs. The findings suggest that receiving L2 input in a high-exposure environment does not necessarily allow learners to bypass the developmental stages in acquiring the passive rule. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities is the property of Universiti Putra Malaysia and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities holder: Universiti Putra Malaysia dt: @attributes: year: 2023 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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