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analysis of negative and interrogative structures in the English of junior high school ESL students in a bilingual community
| Title: | An analysis of negative and interrogative structures in the English of junior high school ESL students in a bilingual community. |
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| Name(s): |
Briggs, Susan Ellen Florida Atlantic University, Degree Grantor Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
| Issuance: | monographic | |
| Date Issued: | 1988 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Place of Publication: | Boca Raton, Fla. | |
| Physical Form: | application/pdf | |
| Extent: | 115 p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | This thesis investigates the acqusition of certain negative and interrogative structures by adolescent Spanish-speaking ESL students in a bilingual community. These ESL learners demonstrated two unexpected negating strategies using not plus the verb and never plus the verb. They likewise used does/did as an overgeneralized question marker. Age of first exposure to English did not appear to be a significant factor in the acquisition of the English auxiliary, and the students' acquisition of negative and interrogative structures appeared to be delayed in this bilingual environment, despite ESL instruction. | |
| Identifier: | 14438 (digitool), FADT14438 (IID), fau:11238 (fedora) | |
| Collection: | FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection | |
| Note(s): |
Adviser: Melvyn C. Resnick. Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1988. |
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| Subject(s): |
Education, Bilingual and Multicultural Language, Linguistics |
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| Held by: | Florida Atlantic University Libraries | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14438 | |
| Sublocation: | Digital Library | |
| Use and Reproduction: | Copyright © is held by the author, with permission granted to Florida Atlantic University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder. | |
| Use and Reproduction: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| Host Institution: | FAU | |
| Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |
