Morphosyntactic Issues in Second Language Acquisition

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PrefaceContributorsI Studies on ESL/EFL Morphosyntactic Development 1. Focus constructions and meaning transfer - Terence Odlin (Ohio State University, USA) 2. Argument realization and information packaging in tough-movement constructions - a learner-corpus-based investigation - Marcus Callies (University of Marburg, Germany) 3. l 1 syntactic preferences of Polish adolescents in bilingual and monolingual education programmes - Anna Ewert (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) 4. MOGUL and crosslinguistic influence - Mike Sharwood-Smith (Harriot-Watt University, Scotland) & John Truscott (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) 5. Syntactic processing of a multilingual language user (a case study)- Danuta Gabrys-Barker (University of Silesia, Poland) 6. The morphology -me in Modern Greek as l 2: how German and Russian l 2 learners interpret verbal constructions - Irini Kassotaki (University of Crete, Iraklio) 7. Unaccusativity marks - Konrad Szczesniak (University of Silesia, Poland) 8. To move or not to move: acquisition of l 2 English syntactic movement parameter - Cem Can, Abdurrahman Kilimci and Esra Altunkol (Cukurova University,Turkey) 9. Last to acquire: on the relation of concession in interpreting - Andrzej Lyda (University of Silesia, Poland) 10. Pragmatic (in) competence in EFL writing learners - Ruediger Zimmermann (University of Marburg, Germany) II. Pedagogical grammar in promoting acquisition of l 2 morphosyntax 11. The role of explicit rule presentation in teaching English articles to Polish learners - Agnieszka Krol-Markefka (Jagiellonian University in Kraki?½w, Poland) 12. The effect of corrective feedback on the acquisition of the English third person- s ending - Miroslaw Pawlak (University, Poznan, Poland) 13. The acquisition of German syntax by Polish learners in classroom conditions - Barbara Sadownik (Marie Curie University in Lublin, Poland) 14. Introducing language interface in pedagogical grammar - Michal Paradowski (University of Warsaw, Poland) 15. Towards reflecting the dynamic nature of grammar in language instruction: expectations and current pedagogic practice - Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna)