The acquisition of Mandarin dative constructions by L2 and heritage learners

Chinese as a Second Language Research Pub Date : 2017-10-26 DOI:10.1515/caslar-2017-0011

Chunsheng Yang, H. Luo

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Abstract

Abstract This study examines the acquisition of Mandarin dative constructions by second language (L2) and heritage learners of Mandarin Chinese. Three groups of speakers (L2, heritage, and native, 20 in each group) participated in this study by completing a questionnaire consisting of sentence translation and grammaticality judgment tasks on Mandarin dative constructions. In both tasks, native speakers outperformed the heritage learners, who in turn outperformed the L2 learners. The variance of performance in the two tasks across groups can be attributed to several factors, including linguistic universal, first language (L1) transfer, and individual difference. This study shows that L2 acquisition is a complex system and no single factor can fully explain or predict L2 learning outcomes. The findings of this study also have important pedagogical implications for L2 Chinese teaching.

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二语学习者和传统学习者对汉语与格结构的习得

摘要本研究考察了第二语言学习者和传统汉语学习者对汉语与格结构的习得情况。本研究由三组说话者(二语组、传统组和母语组，每组各20人)完成一份由句子翻译和汉语与格结构语法判断任务组成的问卷。在这两项任务中，母语人士的表现都优于传统学习者，而传统学习者的表现又优于第二语言学习者。不同群体在这两项任务中的表现差异可归因于几个因素，包括语言普遍性、第一语言迁移和个体差异。本研究表明，二语习得是一个复杂的系统，没有单一的因素可以完全解释或预测二语学习的结果。本研究结果对二语汉语教学也具有重要的教学意义。

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Chinese as a Second Language Research Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Chinese as a Second Language Research (CASLAR) focuses on research on the acquisition, development, and use of Chinese as a Second Language. It supports scholars and researchers from different linguistic fields, and serves as a forum to discuss, investigate, and better understand Chinese as a Second Language. Each issue (2 per year) of the journal publishes three papers in Chinese and three papers in English; summaries are always provided both in Chinese and English. We are especially interested in publishing articles and research papers that investigate how empirical findings of CSL research can advance and develop better Chinese language teaching methodologies, explore the implications of CSL research for theoretical developments and practical applications, focus on the acquisition and use of varieties of CSL, study the nature of interaction between native speakers and non-native speakers of Chinese, address major issues of second language acquisition from the perspective of CSL, analyze the ways in which language is both shaped by culture and is the medium through which culture is created.