Interlanguage Grammar in English: Produced by Indonesian students learning French
- DOI
- 10.2991/icollite-18.2019.89How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- English; second language acquisition; finite clauses; interlanguage grammar
- Abstract
The society around the world is becoming more and more multilingual. This paper reports research on the interlanguage grammar (ILG) in English finite clauses produced by multilingual students who speak Indonesian (L1), French (L3), and English (L2). The paper will describe the variations and the causes of the emergence of the variation of ILG in English finite clauses structures. The research used the Minimalist Program, which is the syntactic theory of Generative Grammar to explain finite clause in English. To examine the variation of interlanguage grammar in the multilingual students, the research adopted a qualitative approach, employing grammaticality judgment technique with multiple choice test type. The participants consisted of 25 students who had reached A2 level in French. The results showed that variations in ILG have been caused by lack of knowledge or lack of mastery of functional category Infl(ection) with its relevant features as the head element in English finite clauses.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Dudung Gumilar AU - Dadang Sudana AU - Aceng Ruhendi Syaifullah PY - 2019/03 DA - 2019/03 TI - Interlanguage Grammar in English: Produced by Indonesian students learning French BT - Proceedings of the Second Conference on Language, Literature, Education, and Culture (ICOLLITE 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 402 EP - 405 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icollite-18.2019.89 DO - 10.2991/icollite-18.2019.89 ID - Gumilar2019/03 ER -