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Publication details [#36016]

Johnson, Jacqueline S. 1991. Critical period effects in second language acquisition: The effect of written versus auditory materials on the assessment of grammatical competence. Language Learning 42 (1) : 217–248.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

grammar1 | grammaticality | language proficiency | second language acquisition | task-dependency of processing

Place, Publisher

The University of Michigan

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study examines whether the poorer English grammatical competence of older native Chinese and Korean arrivals in the U.S., tested via an auditory grammaticality judgment task, was due to their problems with English grammar or rather to extragrammatical features related to an auditory task.