Acquisition of English Causative Psych Verbs by Chinese Learners

DOI

10.2991/icemss.2013.50How to use a DOI?

Keywords

causative psych verbs, second language acquisition, Chinese, English

Abstract

This study centers upon, the form-meaning connections of second language (L2) causative psych verbs. More specifically, it attempts to (1) interpret the Chinese learners’ internal representation of knowledge on English causative psych verbs, (2) explain how and to what extent the transfer of the first language (Chinese) motivates similar or different outcomes at different second language (English) proficiency levels, and, consequently, (3) figures out how the Chinese English learners acquire the ability of using second language causative psych verbs’ structure accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately. Based on 90 Chinese English learners and 30 native English speakers, it reveals that Chinese is a crucial factor to influence the acquisition of causative psych verbs in English.

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© 2013, 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/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiandong Kang
AU  - Binhua Hou
PY  - 2013/08
DA  - 2013/08
TI  - Acquisition of English Causative Psych Verbs by Chinese Learners
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Education, Management and Social Science (ICEMSS-13)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 184
EP  - 187
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icemss.2013.50
DO  - 10.2991/icemss.2013.50
ID  - Kang2013/08
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