Browsing Theses and Dissertations by Subject "English language--Grammar, Generative"

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The effects of explicit instruction of grammar on translation students' writing : action research

Majarian, Shaké (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2016)

This study describes the effects and effectiveness of explicit instruction of grammar on first year translation students’ writing skills enhancing transfer and hedging interference. First year translation students in a French-medium university in Lebanon study English, the target language, as both a means and an end. While communicative teaching methodologies look down upon and heavily criticize explicit instruction, students with French as their L2 have always felt safe given grammar rules, hoping to apply them right away. In order to increasing students’ metacognitive awareness, explicit ...
The non-referential It and third language aquisition

Beurklian Kouyoumdjian, Lena (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2016)

Linguists, grammarians and professors seek to come to an apt and final approach to grammar teaching to Foreign Language learners. Studies about language acquisition investigate the non-referential it in the theoretical framework of the pro-drop parameter and researchers limit the findings that deal with the non-referential it strictly to the English language. The specific problem this study addresses is how to accommodate the needs of implicit or explicit instruction of grammar of established grammatical approaches to the needs of French L2 students learning intermediate level English as a third ...

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