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Input and foreign/second‐language accuracy order: a reappraisal
Author(s) -
KRAKOWIAN BOGDAN
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
world englishes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.6
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-971X
pISSN - 0883-2919
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-971x.1986.tb00640.x
Subject(s) - morpheme , linguistics , similarity (geometry) , foreign language , natural language processing , computer science , order (exchange) , artificial intelligence , psychology , philosophy , image (mathematics) , finance , economics
This is a report on a morpheme study conducted with learners of English as a foreign language in Poland. The accuracy order of 11 morphemes obtained from the study was correlated with three other accuracy orders reported for English as a second language. Although the correlations showed some degree of similarity between foreign‐ and second‐language accuracy orders, no definitive conclusions could be drawn from them because of the shortcomings of morpheme research methodology. Some of these shortcomings are discussed and some suggestions for future research are offered.