Faculty Publications and Conference Presentations

This paper contests Montrul's (2000) idea of modular transfer, arguing for a strong Full Transfer position instead. A reanalysis of results from her second language (L2) acquisition study of the causative/inchoative alternation with L2 English, Spanish and Turkish speakers leads to the following conclusions: (1) the overgeneralization found in the results represent a stage of development after Full Transfer; (2) if one takes a derivational view of syntax the results no longer support a view of modular transfer in which there is transfer of morphology but not argument structure.

<p>Sentence-level writing errors seem immune to many of the feedback forms devised over the years, apart from the slow accumulation of examples from the environment itself, which second language (L2) learners gradually notice and use to varying degrees. A computer corpus and concordance could provide these examples in less time and more noticeable form, but until now the use of this technology has assumed roughly the degree of language awareness most learners are aiming at. We report on attempts to make concordance information accessible to lower-intermediate L2 writers. These attempts capitalize on some newly available opportunities as concordancing goes online. Our report: (1) makes a case in principle for concordance information as feedback to sentence-level written errors, (2) describes a URL-link technology that allows teachers to create and embed concordances in learners' texts, (3) describes a trial of this approach with intermediate academic learners, and (4) presents preliminary results.</p>

英美等西方國家在20世紀60、70年代進行的課程改革以失敗告終，失敗的經驗顯示如果學校的組織、管理等結構不改變的話，課程變革也無法順利實施。因此，隨之而來的就是大規模的學校重構、學校改進等策略的實施。在這個過程中，變革的焦點又偏向了學校結構的改變而忽略了與學生的學習最密切相關的課程與教學的變革。因此，本文擬以課程實施的不同取向為基礎，分析學校改進所應採取的實施取向。