The markedness in acquiring do-support in negation and inversion by adult native-Arabic speakers learning English

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the markedness phenomenon of Do-support as a specificlanguage property poses greater difficulties for adult Arabic-speaking learners thereby bringing about more L1 transfer than the auxiliary verbs BE and HAVE. Do-support in the inter-language of a...

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Main Authors:	AL-Makatrah, Elham Salem, Mohamad Subakir Mohd Yasin, Mohamed Zain Sulaiman, Al-Khawaldeh, Mohammad
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Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017
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spelling	ukm-128612019-05-07T14:35:39Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12861/ The markedness in acquiring do-support in negation and inversion by adult native-Arabic speakers learning English AL-Makatrah, Elham Salem Mohamad Subakir Mohd Yasin, Mohamed Zain Sulaiman, Al-Khawaldeh, Mohammad The purpose of this study is to determine whether the markedness phenomenon of Do-support as a specificlanguage property poses greater difficulties for adult Arabic-speaking learners thereby bringing about more L1 transfer than the auxiliary verbs BE and HAVE. Do-support in the inter-language of adult native-Arabic speakers learning English was insufficiently addressed despite the complexity and that Arabic lacks do-support in negation and inversion. This study was conducted to address this gap within the theoretical framework of Differential Markedness Hypothesis (DMH). A sample of 100 Jordanian students attending Mutah University participated in the study where data was collected using a Multiple-Choice Task (MCT), and a Written Production Task (WPT), involving semi-structured interviews with 30 students from the student sample. The study used descriptive and inferential statistics to analyse the data where the findings showed a committed relationship between the auxiliary type and degree of difficulty that learners in both groups experienced with DO, BE and HAVE. Notably, Do-support poses greater difficulty compared to BE and HAVE where its usage is problematic particularly for beginners, resulting in more incidences of the Arabic influence. The data from the interviews support the results of the two tasks: learners find L2 marked features more difficult than L2 features, which are universal and genuinely part of the syntactic structure. The findings in this study will contribute towards a better understanding of how to develop an improved teaching process to more effective on the markedness and difficulty of Do-support compared to BE and HAVE. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12861/1/20240-65581-1-PB.pdf AL-Makatrah, Elham Salem and Mohamad Subakir Mohd Yasin, and Mohamed Zain Sulaiman, and Al-Khawaldeh, Mohammad (2017) The markedness in acquiring do-support in negation and inversion by adult native-Arabic speakers learning English. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 23 (4). pp. 143-156. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1059
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description	The purpose of this study is to determine whether the markedness phenomenon of Do-support as a specificlanguage property poses greater difficulties for adult Arabic-speaking learners thereby bringing about more L1 transfer than the auxiliary verbs BE and HAVE. Do-support in the inter-language of adult native-Arabic speakers learning English was insufficiently addressed despite the complexity and that Arabic lacks do-support in negation and inversion. This study was conducted to address this gap within the theoretical framework of Differential Markedness Hypothesis (DMH). A sample of 100 Jordanian students attending Mutah University participated in the study where data was collected using a Multiple-Choice Task (MCT), and a Written Production Task (WPT), involving semi-structured interviews with 30 students from the student sample. The study used descriptive and inferential statistics to analyse the data where the findings showed a committed relationship between the auxiliary type and degree of difficulty that learners in both groups experienced with DO, BE and HAVE. Notably, Do-support poses greater difficulty compared to BE and HAVE where its usage is problematic particularly for beginners, resulting in more incidences of the Arabic influence. The data from the interviews support the results of the two tasks: learners find L2 marked features more difficult than L2 features, which are universal and genuinely part of the syntactic structure. The findings in this study will contribute towards a better understanding of how to develop an improved teaching process to more effective on the markedness and difficulty of Do-support compared to BE and HAVE.
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author	AL-Makatrah, Elham Salem Mohamad Subakir Mohd Yasin, Mohamed Zain Sulaiman, Al-Khawaldeh, Mohammad
spellingShingle	AL-Makatrah, Elham Salem Mohamad Subakir Mohd Yasin, Mohamed Zain Sulaiman, Al-Khawaldeh, Mohammad The markedness in acquiring do-support in negation and inversion by adult native-Arabic speakers learning English
author_facet	AL-Makatrah, Elham Salem Mohamad Subakir Mohd Yasin, Mohamed Zain Sulaiman, Al-Khawaldeh, Mohammad
author_sort	AL-Makatrah, Elham Salem
title	The markedness in acquiring do-support in negation and inversion by adult native-Arabic speakers learning English
title_short	The markedness in acquiring do-support in negation and inversion by adult native-Arabic speakers learning English
title_full	The markedness in acquiring do-support in negation and inversion by adult native-Arabic speakers learning English
title_fullStr	The markedness in acquiring do-support in negation and inversion by adult native-Arabic speakers learning English
title_full_unstemmed	The markedness in acquiring do-support in negation and inversion by adult native-Arabic speakers learning English
title_sort	markedness in acquiring do-support in negation and inversion by adult native-arabic speakers learning english
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2017
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The markedness in acquiring do-support in negation and inversion by adult native-Arabic speakers learning English

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