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[In Press] The onset of English lexical acquisition among Malaysian preschoolers
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The effect of developmentally moderated focus on form instruction in Indonesian kindergarten children learning English as a foreign language
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A case study on the acquisition of plurality in a bilingual Malay-English context-bound child
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How recorded audio-visual feedback can improve academic language support
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Early lexical and grammatical development of English in Indonesian kindergarten children
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Designing HTML5 LexiFunII : Japanese learning can be fun for all
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Bilingual development of Malay and English : the case of plural marking
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Abstract:
In a postcolonial country such as Malaysia, English plays an important role in governance, education and popular culture. With English now becoming the lingua franca of the globalized world, many Malaysian urban families use English to speak to their children at home, as well as the Malay language or other ethnic languages (Mabella, 2013). Recognizing the important relationship between the two languages, this paper investigates the early bilingual development of Malay and English. This paper, focusing specifically on the development of plural marking in Malay and English in a child raised in two languages that are typologically distant and express plurals differently; Malay plurals are expressed in various forms of reduplication and English plurals are typically morphologically marked on nouns with suffix /-s/. But how does the child manage to learn, simultaneously, such divergent systems? In order to shed some light on this question, a child growing up bilingually in these two languages was audio and video recorded in each language over 5 months, that is from 3 years 4 months (3;04 ) to 3 years 9 months (3;09). Results suggest that though the child appears to develop two distinct systems of pluralities in Malay and English, the two developing grammars also manifest cross-linguistic influences.
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200401 - Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics; 200408 - Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar; 930102 - Learner and Learning Processes; bilingualism; English language; Lexicon; Phonology; second language acquisition; Semantics)
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URL: http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:34666 http://www.micfl2015.upm.edu.my/
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Argument structure and lexicon : cross-linguistic studies in English L2 and Japanese L2
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Acquiring procedural skills in L2 : Processability theory and skill acquisition
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Exploring the typological plausibility of Processability Theory : language development in Italian second language and Japanese second language
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