The problematic issue of grammatical gender in Arabic as a foreign language

• Autorzy: Fatima A. Alkohlani
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Many languages of the world have a grammatical gender system that divides all nouns into gendered categories. The gender assigned to a given noun requires gender agreement with associated items in the sentence, such as: determiners, adjectives, and demonstrative pronouns. Research in the area of grammatical gender acquisition has found that this grammatical category poses considerable difficulty for L2 learners. However, rarely was this area of difficulty the focus of L2 studies in Arabic. The present study focuses on the problematic issue of grammatical gender in Arabic as a foreign language. It examines advanced Arabic L2 learners’ written errors of gender assignment and agreement in the Arabic Learner Corpus (ALC) v2, compiled by Alfaifi, Atwel, and Hedaya (2014). Based on the classification and analysis of the errors, possible factors of the difficulty facing L2 learners in assigning the correct gender are discussed, and recommendations to reduce their effects are suggested.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

gender assignment; gender agreement; Arabic L2 errors

• Wydawca: Sciendo
• Czasopismo: Journal of Language and Cultural Education
• Rocznik: 2016
• Tom: 4
• Numer: 1
• Strony: 17-28

Daty

wydano

2016-01-01

online

2016-02-09

Twórcy

autor

Fatima A. Alkohlani

• P.O. Box 132739, Jeddah 21382, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,

Bibliografia

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• DEWAELE, J., & VÉRONIQUE, D. (2001). Gender assignment and gender agreement in advanced French interlanguage: A cross-sectional study. Bilingualism: Language and Cognision, 4(3), 275-297.
• AL-AMRY, A. (2014). The acquisition of gender agreement in adult learners of Arabic. MA. diss., Ottawa: Carleton University.
• Al-ʾaxTaaʾ l-lughawiyyah l-taHririyyah li-Tulaab l-mustawa l-mutaqaddim fii maʿhad l-lughah l-ʿarabiyyah bi-Jaamiʿat umm l-quraa. (1982). Makkah Al-Mukarramah: MaTaabiʿ Jaamiʿat Umm l-Quraa.
• AL-FAAORI, A. (2009). ʾaxTaaʾ l-kitaabah ladaa mutaʿallimii l-ʿarabiyyah min l-naaTiqiin bi-ghayrihaa: alʾaxTaaʾ l-kitabyyah li-Talabat l-sanah l-raabiʿah fii qism l-lughah l-ʿarabiyyah fii jaamiʿat jiin jii fii taywaan. diraasah taHliliyyah. Majallat majmaʿ l-lughah l-ʿarabiyyah l-ʾardunii. nusxah ʾiliktruuniyyah.
• ALFAIFI, A., ATWELL, E., & HEDAYA, I. (2014). Arabic learner corpus (ALC) v2: a new written and spoken corpus of Arabic learners. In Ishikawa, S. (Ed.), Proceedings of learner corpus studies in Asia and the world 2014. International symposium learner corpus studies in Asia and the world (LCSAW) 2014 (p. 77- 89). Japan: Kobe University. Available at: http://www.arabiclearnercorpus.com
• ALHAWARY, M. (2003). Processability theory: counter-evidence from Arabic second language acquisition data. Al-Arabiya, 36, 107-166.
• ALHAWARY, M. (2005). L2 acquisition of Arabic morphosyntactic features: Temporary or permanent impairment? In Alhawary, M. & Benmamoun, E. (Eds.), Perspectives on Arabic linguistics (p. 273-312). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• ALHAWARY, M. (2009). Arabic second language acquisition of morphosyntax. Yale University Press.
• ANDERSEN, R. (1984). What’s gender good for anyway? In Andersen, R. (Ed.), Second language: A crosslinguistic perspective (p. 77-100). Rowley, MA: Newbury House.
• BERMAN, R. (1986). Acquisition of Hebrew. In Slobin, D. I. (Ed.), The crosslinguistics study of language acquisition (p. 255-372). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• BOND, K., GABRIELE, A., FIORENTINO, R., & BANON, J. (2011). Individual differences and the role of the L1 in L2 processing: An ERP investigation. In Herschensohn, J. D. (Eds.), Tanner proceedings of the 11th generative approach to second language acquisition conference GASLA (p. 17-29). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
• BROUWER, S., CORNIPS, L., & HULK, A. (2008). Misrepresentation of Dutch neuter gender in older bilingual children. In Haznedar, B. & Gavruseva, E. (Eds.), Current trends in child second language acquisition: A generative perspective (p. 83-96). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• BRUHN DE GARAVITO, J. & WHITE, L. (2002). The second language acquisition of Spanish DPs: The status of grammatical features. In Pérez-Leroux, A. & Munoz Liveras, J. (Eds.), The acquisition of Spanish morphosyntax (p. 153-178). Dordrecht: Kluwer.
• CAIN, J., WEBER-OLSEN, M., & SMITH, R. (1987). Acquisition strategies in a first and second language: Are they the same? Journal of Child Language, 14(2), 333-352.[Crossref]
• CARROLL, S. E. (1989). Second language acquisition and the computational paradigm. Language Learning, 39(4), 535-594.
• COMRIE, B. (1999). Grammatical gender systems: A linguist’s assessment. Journal of Psycholinguistics Research, 28(5), 457-466.
• CORBETT, G.G. (1991). Gender. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. CORBETT, G.G. (2006). Gender, grammatical. Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics (p. 749-756). DOI: 10.1016/B0-08-044854-2/00191-7.[Crossref]
• DELISLE, H. (1985). The acquisition of gender by American students of German. The Modern Language Journal, 69, 55-63.
• DESROCHERS, A., GÉLINAS, C., &WIELAND, L.D. (1989). An application of the mnemonic keyword method to the acquisition of German nouns and their grammatical gender. Journal of Educational Psychology, 81, 25-32.
• DEWAELE, J., & VÉRONIQUE, D. (2001). Gender assignment and gender agreement in advanced French interlanguage: A cross-sectional study. Bilingualism: Language and Cognision, 4(3), 275-297.

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.1515/jolace-2016-0002