Zer dakite DBHko ikasleek gramatikaz? Subjektua eta Nor/Nork eztabaidan. Kasu azterketa
This paper describes a case study carried out in a Model D (Basque immersion) secondary classroom where students are working on a teaching sequence about grammar. The article explores the way in which the students reflect on the use of the grammatical subject in Basque. Evidence from their written responses and discourse reveals the different routes they try and the difficulties they encounter during this reflection. Amongst the most relevant findings is the students’ need to know certain grammatical terminology in order to carry out this meta-linguistic reflection. Thus the study calls into question the relevance of the terminology used nowadays in teaching certain grammatical functions in Basque (nor/nork).
Représentations métalinguistiques des apprenants, des enseignants et des linguistiques : un défi pour la didactique
Dans le cadre de l'enseignement des langues etrangeres, l'A. offre des perspectives didactiques en se demandant si les didacticiens ne devraient pas se preoccuper des representations metalinguistiques presentes chez les apprenants et de leurs propres representations sur les deux langues sources et cibles s'ils veulent esperer qu'une metalangue de mediation et/ou une selection/progression des donnees linguistiques et des types d'interaction soient efficaces
Methods of Morpheme Quantification: Their Effect on the Interpretation of Second Language Data
Production of English grammatical morphemes has provided a fruitful data base for language acquisition research. However, questions have been raised as to how these data can best be analyzed to represent subjects' actual use of morphemes (Andersen 1977, Hakuta 1976, Hatch and Wagner-Gough 1976, Lightbown, Spada, and Wallace 1980, Stauble 1981). In the following study, application of different methods of morpheme quantification to the spontaneous speech data of 18 adults acquiring English as a second language led to conflicting interpretations regarding their morpheme production. Application of two alternative methods of morpheme quantification—one by suppliance in obligatory contexts, the other by target-like use—resulted in substantially different percentages of accuracy for subjects' production of the morphemes progressive -ing, progressive auxiliary, and past irregular. Another set of methods, used to analyze plural -s—quantification by noun tokens and by noun types—yielded contradictory findings regarding subjects' production of this morpheme. Results of this study demonstrate that data can be described in various ways depending on how morphemes are quantified. As a consequence of applying different analyses to the same data base, conflicting interpretations about subjects' interlanguage can occur.