ACQUISITION OF THE ARTICLE THEBY NONNATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH

• Published in: Studies in second language acquisition Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 1 - 26
• Main Authors: Liu, Dilin, Gleason, Johanna L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 01.03.2002

Linguistic analyses suggest that the nongeneric use of the English definite article the falls into four major categories: cultural, situation, structural, and textual. This study aims to determine whether these uses present different levels of difficulty for ESL students and whether they are acquire...