Chapter 3
Morpho-syntactic development in the input
A study of second language learning textbooks
This article reports on a study of textbooks used in “Education in Swedish for Immigrants”, in which morpho-syntactic progression is examined in terms of frequency of occurrence in the textual input and is related to learners’ development as defined by Processability Theory (Pienemann 1998). The study is one of two parts of a research project that aims to relate second language instruction through textbooks to research on morpho-syntactic development. The first part was concerned with order of introduction in the learning objectives (Flyman Mattsson 2016), and the second part will be presented in this article. The present study confirms that there is a lack of consensus in the definition of morpho-syntactic progression. If the texts do not represent the learners’ level of development, this may slow down or inhibit progress.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Theoretical background
- 3.PT
- 4.Teachability hypothesis
- 5.Representation in the input
- 6.Previous research on textbooks
- 7.A study of learning objectives in textbooks for “Education in Swedish for Immigrants”
- 8.Data and method for analysis
- 8.1“Education in Swedish for Immigrants”
- 8.2Method of analysis
- 9.Results
- 9.1Progression between courses
- 9.2Morpho-syntactic difficulties within single texts
- 10.Discussion
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References
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Textbooks in the study
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