Abstract
This paper discusses the importance of noticing in the learning of English articles. A study comprising various learning tasks was conducted with about 60 Hong Kong Cantonese ESL learners to investigate their acquisition of English articles. The results showed that certain features, such as the importance of identifiability for definiteness, the related linguistic difference between specificity and definiteness, and the differences between the countable and uncountable uses of an English noun and its associated article use, were less readily noticed. When tackling learners’ article problems, ESL teachers should be conscious of not just incorrect article uses but also the shadowy problems underlying correct uses.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Presented - 7 Jul 2018 |
| Event | The 14th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness (ALA 2018) - Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: 4 Jul 2018 → 7 Jul 2018 https://ala2018.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/full-programme-abstracts-ala2018-july3.pdf https://ala2018.com/ |
Conference
| Conference | The 14th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness (ALA 2018) |
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| Place | Netherlands |
| City | Amsterdam |
| Period | 4/07/18 → 7/07/18 |
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