Explicit vs. Implicit Exposure to Grammar: Complexity and ‎Accuracy in Negation and Interrogatives

Ali Ansari, Mohammad Hamed Hoomanfard

Abstract


This paper is an attempt to report the processes happening to two participants developing their interlanguage. Most of the focus is on the acquisition of negation and question forms. It is reported how accurate and complex the negatives and questions they produce are. Some other interesting points other than negatives and questions are referred to during the discussion. All these are done comparatively since one of these participants is exposed to explicit grammar rules while the other one is not exposed to any predetermined explicit grammar rule. Results indicated that the one explicitly exposed to grammar comes with more accuracy and speed of speech while the other one comes with less accuracy and longer pauses in speech and, in return, more structurally complex sentences he comes to.


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explicit vs. implicit exposure, grammar, complexity, ‎accuracy, negation, interrogatives

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