Publications

Publication details [#30589]

Tickoo, Asha. 2002. On the framing of one kind of indefinite referring expression: learning challenges and pedagogical implications. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 12 (2) : 176–193.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

frame | indefinite expression | L2-acquisition | reference type

Language as a subject

Cantonese | English

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers Associates, Inc.

ISBN

0802-6106

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

This paper demonstrates that native Cantonese speaking advanced learners of English have difficulties with the framing of focal specific indefinite referring expressions and examines the alternative framing strategies they adopt in comparison with those used by educated native speakers.