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Publication details [#30897]

Butler, Yuko. 2002. Second language learners' theories on the use of English articles. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 24 : 451–480.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

article | knowledge | L2-acquisition | language proficiency | language use

Language as a subject

English | Japanese

ISBN

0272-2631

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

The present study explores the metalinguistic knowledge of the English article system to better understand the process of 'making sense' of the English article system by Japanese learners of English as a second language, belonging to different proficiency groups.