The acquisition of Mandarin dative constructions by L2 and heritage learners
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Chunsheng Yang
Chunsheng Yang earned his Ph. D in Chinese linguistics from The Ohio State University. Currently he is assistant professor of Chinese and applied linguistics at the University of Connecticut. His research areas are Chinese linguistics, second language acquisition, second language phonetics and phonology, applied linguistics, computer-assisted language teaching and learning, and Chinese pedagogy in general.
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Han Luo
Han Luo is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese at Lafayette College. She received a PhD in Foreign Language Education with a specialization in the teaching of Chinese from the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Her research interests include Chinese linguistics, cognitive linguistics, second language acquisition, foreign language anxiety, heritage language education, and foreign language pedagogy.
Abstract
This study examines the acquisition of Mandarin dative constructions by second language (L2) and heritage learners of Mandarin Chinese. Three groups of speakers (L2, heritage, and native, 20 in each group) participated in this study by completing a questionnaire consisting of sentence translation and grammaticality judgment tasks on Mandarin dative constructions. In both tasks, native speakers outperformed the heritage learners, who in turn outperformed the L2 learners. The variance of performance in the two tasks across groups can be attributed to several factors, including linguistic universal, first language (L1) transfer, and individual difference. This study shows that L2 acquisition is a complex system and no single factor can fully explain or predict L2 learning outcomes. The findings of this study also have important pedagogical implications for L2 Chinese teaching.
摘要
本文研究二语和华裔学习者对中文予格结构的习得。三组人员 （二语、华裔、母语，每组20人）参加了研究，在线完成由句子翻译和语法正确性判断两个任务组成的问卷。在两个任务中，母语者表现优于华裔学习者，而华裔学习者又好于二语学习者。三组之间的差异可归因于以下因素：语言共性，母语迁移和个体差异。本研究表明二语习得是一个复杂体系，没有任何一个因素能完全解释二语学习的效果。本研究的发现对中文的二语教学有重要的教学意义。
About the authors
Chunsheng Yang earned his Ph. D in Chinese linguistics from The Ohio State University. Currently he is assistant professor of Chinese and applied linguistics at the University of Connecticut. His research areas are Chinese linguistics, second language acquisition, second language phonetics and phonology, applied linguistics, computer-assisted language teaching and learning, and Chinese pedagogy in general.
Han Luo is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese at Lafayette College. She received a PhD in Foreign Language Education with a specialization in the teaching of Chinese from the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Her research interests include Chinese linguistics, cognitive linguistics, second language acquisition, foreign language anxiety, heritage language education, and foreign language pedagogy.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Papers in English
- Investigating the degree of humorous enjoyment in reading Chinese language errors
- Examining the auditory approach: Lexical effects in the perceptual judgment of Chinese L2 tone production
- The acquisition of Mandarin dative constructions by L2 and heritage learners
- Papers in Chinese
- 英语母语者汉语双数量结构的习得
- 美国汉语学习者的理想汉语自我
- 韩国学生汉语中介语的平均句长与句长分布发展
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Papers in English
- Investigating the degree of humorous enjoyment in reading Chinese language errors
- Examining the auditory approach: Lexical effects in the perceptual judgment of Chinese L2 tone production
- The acquisition of Mandarin dative constructions by L2 and heritage learners
- Papers in Chinese
- 英语母语者汉语双数量结构的习得
- 美国汉语学习者的理想汉语自我
- 韩国学生汉语中介语的平均句长与句长分布发展
