This volume presents a selection of second language acquisition studies at the level of morphosyntax. It looks at different aspects of morphosyntactic development of bilingual language learners/users such as language transfer, syntactic processing, morphology and the pragmatics of language among others. The studies report on projects carried out in different language contact contexts, ranging from: English, German, Polish, Greek and Turkish. The volume also includes those studies which show the interface between research findings and pedagogy of foreign language teaching. This Volume Covers Issues Relating To The Morphosyntactic Development Of Foreign Language Learners From Different L1 Backgrounds, In Many Cases Involving Languages Which Are Typologically Distant From English, Such As Polish, Greek And Turkish. It Highlights Areas Which May Be Expected To Be Especially Transfer-prone At Both The Interlingual And Intralingual Levels.--jacket. Focus Constructions And Language Transfer / Terence Odlin -- Argument Realisation And Information Packaging In 'tough'-movement Constructions : A Learner-corpus-based Investigation / Marcus Callies -- L1 Syntactic Preferences Of Polish Adolescents In Bilingual And Monolingual Education Programmes / Anna Ewert -- Mogul And Crosslinguistic Influence / Mike Sharwood-smith And John Truscott -- Syntactic Processing In Multilingual Performance (a Case Study) / Danuta Gabrýs-barker -- The Morphology '-me' In Modern Greek As L2 : How German And Russian L2 Learners Interpret Verbal Consturctions / Irini Kassotaki -- Unaccusativity Marks / Konrad Szcześniak -- To Move Or Not To Move : Acquisition Of L2 English Syntactic Movement Parameter / Cem Can, Abdurrahman Kilimci And Esra Altunkol -- Last To Acquire : On The Relation Of Concession In Interpreting / Andrzej Łyda -- Pragmatic (in)competence In Efl Writing / Rüdiger Zimmermann -- The Role Of Explicit Rule Presentation In Teaching English Articles To Polish Learners / Angieszka Król-markefka -- The Effect Of Corrective Feedback On The Acquisition Of The English Third Person '-s' Ending / Mirosław Pawlak -- The Acquisition Of German Syntax By Polish Learners In Classroom Conditions / Barbara Sadownik -- Introducing Language Interface In Pedagogical Grammar / Michał B. Paradowski -- Towards Reflecting The Dynamic Nature Of Grammar In Foreign Language Instruction : Expectations And Current Pedagogic Practice / Anna Mystkowska-wiertelak. Edited By Danuta Gabryś-barker. Includes Bibliographical References. The volume consists of articles on issues relating to the morphosyntactic development of foreign language learners from different L1 backgrounds, in many cases involving languages which are typologically distant from English, such has Polish, Greek and Turkish. It highlights areas which may be expected to be especially transfer-prone at both the interlingual and intralingual levels. The articles in the first part report empirical studies on word morphology and sentence patterns and also look at the interface of lexis and grammar in the discourse and syntactic processing of foreign language learners. The second part elaborates on pedagogical issues concerning the acquisition of difficult grammatical features such as the English article system or the ‘s'ending in the third person singular. It also comments more generally on the way pedagogic grammar functions in the learning of the L2. The volume consists of articles on issues relating to the morphosyntactic development of foreign language learners from different L1 backgrounds, in many cases involving languages which are typologically distant from English, such has Polish, Greek and Turkish. It highlights areas which may be expected to be especially transfer-prone at both the interlingual and intralingual levels. The articles in the first part report empirical studies on word morphology and sentence patterns and also look at the interface of lexis and grammar in the discourse and syntactic processing of foreign language learners. The second part elaborates on pedagogical issues concerning the acquisition of difficult grammatical features such as the English article system or the 's' ending in the third person singular. It also comments more generally on the way pedagogic grammar functions in the learning of the L2
