Subordinate clauses in essays written by Croatian learners of German
| Autor: | Leonard Pon, Melita Aleksa Varga |
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| Jazyk: | němčina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Grammar rules
HUMANISTIČKE ZNANOSTI. Filologija. Germanistika Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar P101-410 Syntaxerwerb DaF-Lernende Nebensätze Grammar Computer science media_common.quotation_subject German as a foreign language HUMANISTIC SCIENCES. Philology. German Studies Syntax Linguistics language.human_language German TheoryofComputation_MATHEMATICALLOGICANDFORMALLANGUAGES language Computational linguistics. Natural language processing Dependent clause P98-98.5 Competence (human resources) Curriculum media_common |
| Zdroj: | Linguistik Volume 83 Issue 4 Linguistik Online, Vol 83, Iss 4 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 1615-3014 |
| Popis: | The present paper looks into grammar competence of Croatian learners of German as a foreign language. More precisely, it deals with syntactic knowledge that learners need to activate in order to understand and produce complex sentences containing various types of subordinate clauses. Croatian learners of German as a foreign language spend a considerable amount of time during their German classes dealing with syntax – both explicitly and implicitly. In order to understand as well as convey complex ideas, thoughts, and plans in German properly, learners need to activate their syntactic knowledge. Applied linguists investigating the acquisition of grammar knowledge in SLA contexts have defined the order in which some grammar rules are acquired. They could observe that this order cannot be altered. The present paper discusses the results obtained in an analysis of students’ written essays. The objective of the analysis was to identify and describe the subordinate clauses learners use in their essays. The analysis shows which aspects of syntactic knowledge the learners in question possess. It also enables us to compare the curriculum and the syntactic knowledge actually displayed by the learners. |
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