Morphosyntactic Issues in Second Language Acquisition

Preface

Contributors

Part 1: Studies on ESL/EFL Morphosyntactic Development

1. Focus Constructions and Meaning Transfer - Terence Odlin

2. Argument Realization and Information Packaging in Tough-movement Constructions - A Learner-Corpus-Based Investigation - Marcus Callies

3. L1 Syntactic Preferences of Polish Adolescents in Bilingual and Monolingual Education Programmes - Anna Ewert

4. MOGUL and Crosslinguistic Influence - Mike Sharwood-Smith and John Truscott

5. Syntactic Processing of a Multilingual Language User (A Case Study) - Danuta Gabrys-Barker

6. The Morphology -me in Modern Greek as L2: How German and Russian L2 Learners Interpret Verbal Constructions - Irini Kassotaki

7. Unaccusativity Marks - Konrad Szczesniak

8. To Move or not to Move: Acquisition of L2 English Syntactic Movement Parameter - Cem Can, Abdurrahman Kilimci and Esra Altunkol

9. Last to Acquire: On the Relation of Concession in Interpreting - Andrzej Lyda

10. Pragmatic (In) Competence in EFL Writing Learners - Ruediger Zimmermann

Part 2: Pedagogical Grammar in Promoting Acquisition of L2 Morphosyntax

11. The Role of Explicit Rule Presentation in Teaching English Articles to Polish Learners - Agnieszka Krol-Markefka

12. The Effect of Corrective Feedback on the Acquisition of the English Third Person- s Ending - Miroslaw Pawlak

13. The Acquisition of German Syntax by Polish Learners in Classroom Conditions - Barbara Sadownik

14. Introducing Language Interface in Pedagogical Grammar - Michal Paradowski

15. Towards Reflecting the Dynamic Nature of Grammar in Language Instruction: Expectations and Current Pedagogic Practice - Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak