Proceedings of the Second Conference on Language, Literature, Education, and Culture (ICOLLITE 2018)

Interlanguage Grammar in English: Produced by Indonesian students learning French

Authors
Dudung Gumilar, Dadang Sudana, Aceng Ruhendi Syaifullah
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Dudung Gumilar
Available Online March 2019.
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Second Conference on Language, Literature, Education, and Culture (ICOLLITE 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
March 2019
ISBN
10.2991/icollite-18.2019.89
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icollite-18.2019.89How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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