Date:
November 1986
Page No.:
1
Writer(s):
Yoko Shimada
Much syntax-based research in second language (L2) has given us useful information on the developmental processes of acquisition, although such research is difficult to apply towards improving teaching materials and teaching methods in English as a second language. This article examines the process by which the author's ll-year-old daughter acquired interrogatives and outlines some of the syntactically interesting features of her question forms. The data collected during II months are compared with those compiled by other researchers in this field and suggestions are offered for teaching English in Japanese junior and senior high schools.
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