Assessing change in syntactic features of Hebrew written by native Arabic speakers: a longitudinal study

IF 1 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
R. Henkin, Roey J. Gafter, Eihab Abu-Rabiah
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Much of the theorization in Second Language Acquisition is based on findings in unrelated language dyads, with English as L1 or L2. We focus on two closely related languages, Hebrew and Arabic. Hebrew is the majority language in Israel, taught in Arab minority schools mostly by L1 Arabic-speaking teachers. We explore the persistence of very common syntactic errors in Hebrew of Arab high-school students, and the correlation between persistence, interference and developmental errors. From a longitudinal corpus of Hebrew essays written by 22 Arab 11th graders, and a year later in 12th grade, the six most frequent syntactic error categories were isolated. Statistical analysis showed interference to be involved in the vast majority of the errors that also persisted most, whereas almost all the improvement over the year was in developmental errors with no interference. This contradicts a common claim that interference, initially predominant, decreases over time with relation to developmental errors. We found prepositions to be particularly problematic, especially in errors involving interference, but these were no more persistent than others. We conclude that more research on syntactic interference in the acquisition of closely related languages would benefit SLA theory, as our findings differ from many typically attested patterns.
评估以阿拉伯语为母语的人所写希伯来语句法特征的变化:一项纵向研究
第二语言习得中的许多理论都是基于不相关的语言双元的发现,如英语作为第一语言或第二语言。我们专注于两种密切相关的语言,希伯来语和阿拉伯语。希伯来语是以色列的主要语言,在阿拉伯少数民族学校主要由讲L1阿拉伯语的教师教授。我们探讨了阿拉伯高中生希伯来语中常见语法错误的持续性,以及持续性、干扰和发展性错误之间的相关性。从22名阿拉伯11年级学生和一年后的12年级学生写的希伯来文纵向语料库中,分离出了6种最常见的句法错误类别。统计分析显示,绝大多数持续时间最长的错误都与干扰有关,而一年来几乎所有的改善都发生在没有干扰的发展性错误上。这与一种普遍的说法相矛盾,即最初占主导地位的干扰随着时间的推移而减少,与发育错误有关。我们发现介词特别有问题,尤其是在涉及干扰的错误中,但这些错误并不比其他错误更持久。我们的结论是,更多的研究句法干扰在密切相关的语言习得将有利于二语习得理论,因为我们的发现不同于许多典型的证明模式。
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L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature
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