The English Relative and Interrogative Pronouns: A Problem for Swedish Upper Secondary Students 2001 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor)Student thesis

Abstract [en]

The aim of this study is to find out whether Swedish upper secondary students have problems with using the correct forms of the English relative and interrogative pronouns, and if so what kind of errors that might be found and the probable causes of these errors. Furthermore the relevance of the Accessibility Hierarchy, which predicts anorder of difficulty for the relative clause acquisition, is examined and evaluated according to the result of the test. The result o the study clearly indicates that there are areas where Swedish upper secondary students have insufficient grammatical knowledge and that they would probably benefit from more grammatical instruction at school. Since all positions in the Accessibility Hierarchy are possible to relativize in both English and Swedish, no position in the hierarchy should provide any difficulties for the students. The problems, which did in fact arise, are thus clearly due to other circumstances.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages

2001.

Keywords [en]

relative pronoun, interrogative pronoun, second language acquisition, error analysis, transfer, affective filter, overrepresentation, language universals

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URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-9477Local ID: U4080OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-9477DiVA, id: diva2:364576

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Humanities, Theology

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