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Down: 1) Abstract morphosyntactic properties of the lexical items, part of the universal lexicon. Examples of features are [+/-past] features on verbs and [+/- plural] features nouns.2) An intervention that provides information to a learner that a prior utterance is incorrect. (See also feedback.)3) Endings for grammatical information, such as tense and agreement in verbs, and plurality, gender, and number in nouns.5) Research in which the teacher is the researcher and conducts the study in order to address specific questions in their classroom, without aiming for generalizations beyond the classroom.12) Information about what is not possible in the language (in the form of explanation, correction or feedback).17) Semantic concept that refers to making statements about the state of the word and /or about categories or species. For example, Cats like milk is a generic statement about cats. Across: 4) Bilingual individuals who speak a heritage (family) language in addition to the majority or dominant language of the society.6) Property of features that determine whether they involve overt movement operations.7) The language that is being acquired or learned.8) A model consisting of social and affective variables. It is based on the notion that learners need to adapt to the target language culture in order for successful acquisition to take place.9) Knowledge of how to do something that cannot be verbalized.10) The hypothesis that learners learn best if the instruction focuses on the next stage in the learners' development..11) The observation in L2 acquisition that the older the learner is when exposure to the L2 begins, the less likely it is that the learner will acquire native-like levels of grammatical accuracy in the target language.13) Any language influence from the L1 to the L2, from one interlanguage to another or from the L2 back to the Ll. (See also language transfer.)14) A morpheme that can stand on its own, e.g., cat or walk.15) Froms that are used by learners as a default in place of the target form; for example, in the verbal domain, the bare or infinitival from is often used as a default in place of the finite inflected form (as in, 'she play the piano')16) A way of comparing two languages to determine similarities and dissimilarities.18) In the Principles and Parameters framework, parameters are the grammatical rules that constrain crosslinguistic variation, having different instantiations in different languages. 19) Type of mood whose verd form expressed a hypothetical situation, a wish, a demand, an opinion or a suggestion.20) Verbal form inflected for person, number(agreement), tense, etc. (e.g. I was, they walked)21) An approach that assumes that learning takes place based on the extraction of regularities from the input. (See also emergentism.)22) Semantic concept that is generally analyzed as involving some form of speaker knowledge but without hearer knowledge. While English articles encode (in)definiteness rather than specificity, L2 English learners have often been found to make specificity-based errors.23) Language instruction in which focus on grammatical forms is incorporated into communicative activities.
 

 

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