Annette Fahrner (verteidigt)
Poster
The Acquisition of German "es" constructions by Spanish-speaking Learners of German as a Foreign Language
1. Supervisor | Prof. Dr. Martin Hilpert |
2. Supervisor | Prof. Dr. Daniel Jacob |
Abstract | My PhD project lies in the field of Second Language Acquisition and contrastive analysis. I aim to investigate how Spanish-speaking adults acquire German constructions containing the pronoun "es" (i.e. "it"). The theoretical framework is Construction Grammar and the usage-based approach. The general hypothesis is as follows: the grammatical complexity of a German "es" construction is not crucial to the effort Spanish learners have to make in order to acquire that construction. However, the most important factor is the frequency of a construction in spoken German that learners hear everyday. Thus, I expect my empirical study to show that few mistakes are made with highly frequent constructions and vice versa. |
Disciplin | Linguistics |
Languages | German, Spanish |
Research Direction | Second Language Acquisition, Construction Grammar |
Keywords | Construction Grammar, Second Language Acquisition, usage-based models |