The Role of Persian L1 and English L2 on the Acquisition of French L3 Syllable Structure

سال انتشار: 1392
محل انتشار: اولین کنفرانس ملی آموزش زبان انگلیسی، ادبیات و مترجمی
کد COI اختصاصی: TELT01_381
زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
تعداد مشاهده: 1053

نویسندگان

English department of Science and Research Azad University, Yazd, Iran

Associate Professor of English department Yazd University, Iran

چکیده

The originality of languages lies in that each one of them displays a given sound system. Besides, they permit different syllable structures. Learners for acquiring fluency in foreign languages encounter the difficulties that different sound systems may reveal. These difficulties are very often related to pronunciation. At this level, consonant clusters are said to constitute a major source of difficulty. The aim of the present study is to investigate the role of two consonant coda clusters of first language Persian, second language English and third language French on the acquisition of French syllable structure when learners have achieved different levels of L2 proficiency. This study is done through sticking to the most recent models of L3 acquisition namely, ‘Full access/ Full transfer’ (Håkansson, Pienemann and Sayheli, 2002), the ‘Cumulative Enhancement Model’ (Flynn, Vinnitskaya, and Foley, 2004), ‘L2 Status Factor’ (Bardel and Falk, 2011; Rothman and Amaro, 2010), and Typological Proximity Model (Rothman and Amaro, 2010; and Rothman, 2010). According to the ‘Full access/ Full transfer’, L1 has a determining role in L3 acquisition, while the CEM predicts a role for all the previously learned languages, furthermore, the ‘L2 Status Factor’ specifies L2 as a prominent source for transfer into L3, and the proponents of the TPM believe that the similarities between the L3 and the previous languages determine the transfer into L3.To carry out the study, 30 Persian French candidates at Tehran University who participated at Oxford Placement Test and French Placement Test were selected. The L3 proficiency of the subjects was lower intermediate while the L2 levels were upper and lower intermediates. For the purpose of data collection, two types of tasks were prepared to measure the L3 learners’ ability in the perception and production of French syllable structure. In the perception task, the subjects were asked to judge the possibility of sounds in French. And in the production task, they produced 30 words containing French consonant clusters. The learners' responses were recorded and transcribed by two judges. The data analysis was carried out by one-way ANOVA as well as Mixed between-within subjects ANOVA. The results of the study showed that both L1 and L2 played a role in the acquisition of L3 syllable. Therefore, ‘Full access/ Full transfer’ and ‘L2 status’ hypotheses were confirmed in this study. The proficiency effect was not statistically significant; however, there was a direct relationship between the level of the participants and their performance in acquiring L3 syllables structure.

کلیدواژه ها

syllable structure, acquisition, coda cluster, comprehension task, production task

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