Interlanguage

The current research is an interlanguage pragmatic study on the use of compliment responses by Lebanese learners of Spanish. Previous to this analysis, a comparative research on compliment responses in peninsular Spanish and Lebanese Colloquial Arabic was conducted. The topics o…

Since the very early emergence of machine-readable corpora into the linguistics scene in the 1960s, the direction of a considerable body of linguistic research began to shift from syntax and phonology, the, by then, focus of linguistic research, to a number of domains that remai…

This study addresses the question of Universal Grammar availability in second language acquisition within the framework of Bley-Vroman's Fundamental Difference Hypothesis, contributing new empirical evidence from learners of Swedish. Johnson and Newport (1989) showed a strong ne…

This study investigated the development of the interlanguage of learners of Arabic as a foreign language from a processability perspective as presented in Pienemann (1998). Pienemann's Processability Theory (PT) procedures were applied to seven syntactic structures of Arabic and…

The goal of this study was to investigate, classify, and analyze the different types of writing errors committed by a select sample of Iranian university students participating in ESL programs. Furthermore, the study strived to discover whether or not the students and their inst…