A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Definiteness and Use of Articles in Written Swedish by Finnish-speaking Immersion Pupils at the End of Immersion: a Comparison with Non-immersion Students.




AuthorsEeva-Liisa Nyqvist

Publication year2018

JournalJournal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education

Volume6

Issue1

First page 57

Last page84

Number of pages28

ISSN2212-8433

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1075/jicb.17001.nyq(external)

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/27474764(external)


Abstract

There are two primary goals for this study – first, to analyse definiteness and article use in spontaneous writing in Swedish by 15-year-old Finnish immersion students (n=162) and secondly, to compare their performance with that of non-immersion students at the same age (n=67). Analyses at the group level show that immersion students usually perform significantly better than the control group, but they also reveal similar problems to what L2-Swedish non-immersion students have demonstrated in previous studies, such as omission of indefinite articles and difficulty in choosing the right definite form of the noun. Still, these inaccuracies occurred less often in the data from the immersion students. The studied constructions also show at the group level an acquisition order similar to that reported in previous studies, explainable by different aspects of complexity and cross-linguistic influence. Analyses on the individual level, however, show different acquisition orders depending on the criteria being used.


Downloadable publication

This is an electronic reprint of the original article.
This reprint may differ from the original in pagination and typographic detail. Please cite the original version.





Last updated on 2024-26-11 at 21:04