turkishenglish.com - Comparison of relative clauses in ESL students

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS................................................................................................. iv

ABSTRACT......................................................................................................................... v

LIST OF TABLES .............................................................................................................. vii

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS............................................................................................. viii

ORIENTATION TO THE PROJECT................................................................................... 1

Purpose and Underlying Assumptions of the present study ......................................... 2

Overview of thesis .................................................................................................... 3

LITERATURE REVIEW ..................................................................................................... 4

Subordination in General ........................................................................................... 4

Relative Clauses ....................................................................................................... 6

Second Language Acquisition Theory ...................................................................... 19

Studies of L2 Relative Clause Acquisition ................................................................ 21

Discourse Level Contrastive Analyses ..................................................................... 28

Conclusion ............................................................................................................. 35

NOTES ................................................................................................................. 37

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM .................................................................................. 38

The question of transfer............................................................................................ 38

Justification for present study.................................................................................... 39

Goals and limitations................................................................................................ 42

METHODS AND PROCEDURES..................................................................................... 44

Subjects.................................................................................................................. 44

Data........................................................................................................................ 45

Analytical Procedures.............................................................................................. 46

FINDINGS......................................................................................................................... 52

Testing of Hypotheses.............................................................................................. 52

Other Findings......................................................................................................... 91

NOTES.................................................................................................................. 99

CONCLUSIONS............................................................................................................. 100

Summary............................................................................................................... 100

Suggestions........................................................................................................... 102

Areas for further study........................................................................................... 103

APPENDIX A.................................................................................................................. 107

APPENDIX B.................................................................................................................. 111

REFERENCES................................................................................................................. 114