Abstract
The current study investigates the excessive use of BE by young Korean EFL learners for insights into their L2 English grammar construction. The findings reveal that the young Korean EFL learners’ interlanguage grammar of the English BE is not limited to L1 transfer effects but also associated with the developmental processes in the acquisition of the English language. Although be-insertion errors are caused by the conspiracy of various reasons, they trigger the appearance of inflectional category and eventually become the medium for the fully developed inflectional category.
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