Don’t omit –s!: a common grammatical error of Chinese speakers of English
Автор: Yakovleva Elena L.
Журнал: Вестник Пермского университета. Российская и зарубежная филология @vestnik-psu-philology
Рубрика: Язык, культура, общество
Статья в выпуске: 3 (23), 2013 года.
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The paper presents an analysis of the common grammatical error of Taiwanese students in oral English, namely the omission of the final suffix -s in its three grammatical functions, especially in the 3 rd person singular. The major causes of this error are studied in this paper and further divided into two main categories, the grammatical and phonetic one. The omission of -s is primarily considered as interference error or “negative transfer” caused by non-inflectional nature of the Chinese language. In the article, the author emphasizes a role of the teacher in the selection of a suitable teaching method for this grammatical rule considering the phonological features of the final bound, inflectional morpheme -s in English, and linguistic features of the native language.
Error analysis, inflectional morphological error interference, interlingual and intralingual l2 learning problem, missing surface inflection hypothesis
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IDR: 14729242
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