Negative transfer in the use of the definite article by Chinese L2-learners of German: an error analysis

Gisella FERRARESİ

Makale detayları

Negative transfer in the use of the definite article by Chinese L2-learners of German: an error analysis

Yazarlar:

Gisella FERRARESİ

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur 2019 Vol. Issue 42, pp.19-38

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2019

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000847934

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2619-9890

Özet:

 

In this essay, an error analysis of the use of the definitive article in Chinese learners of German as L2 is undertaken to investigate how L1 Chinese as an article-less language affects the acquisition of German in terms of definiteness. According to Hawkins & Filipović (2012), various factors have a negative or positive effect on L2 learning, including the typological differences and similarities between L1 and L2. Chinese is typologically different from German, where definiteness is morphosyntactically realized by the definite article, whereas in Chinese the definite interpretation of the noun phrases is brought about by strategies such as word order. Consequently, the learning of an article system poses great difficulties for speakers of an article-less language, which are further complicated by the fact that not only semantic factors but also pragmatic ones play a role in the interpretation of a noun, as the different usage contexts of the definite article by Himmelmann (1997) show. In the empirical study, freely written texts by Chinese learners of German are examined for noun phrases. The texts were the motivational letters of 80 Chinese applicants for the master’s program in German Studies: Linguistics at the Otto-FriedrichUniversity of Bamberg in the period from the winter term 2014/15 to the summer term 2018. The noun phrases were first analyzed qualitatively according to the semantic-pragmatic categories of Himmelmann (1997) and then quantitatively with regard to their target-language realization. The analysis of the data shows that advanced Chinese learners tend to realize nouns as bare in case they have been mentioned before, and their interpretation can be contextually reconstructed. The same applies to the topic position.

Makale detayları

Negative transfer in the use of the definite article by Chinese L2-learners of German: an error analysis

Yazarlar: Gisella FERRARESİ

Yayıncı: Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar: Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi: Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur 2019 Vol. Issue 42, pp.19-38

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 12/2019

Belge Dili: Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.): 2000847934

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

eISSN: 2619-9890

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Gisella FERRARESİ

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur 2019 Vol. Issue 42, pp.19-38

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2019

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000847934

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2619-9890