Grammatical Morphology in Children Learning English as a Second …

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success in learning English. How can we tell the difference? … examine the oral English of children learning ESL in terms …

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ABSTRACT: Purpose: This study was conducted to examine
whether the expressive language characteristics of typically
developing (TD) children learning English as a second
language (ESL) have similarities to the characteristics of the
English that is spoken by monolingual children with
specific language impairment (SLI), and whether this could
result in the erroneous assessment of TD English-language
learners (ELLs) as language impaired.
Method: Twenty-four TD language-minority children who
had been learning ESL for an average of 9.5 months
participated in the study. The children’s accuracy and error
types in production of the following grammatical morphemes
were examined in spontaneous and elicited speech: third
person singular [-s], past tense [-ed], irregular past tense, BE
as a copula and auxiliary verb, DO as an auxiliary verb,
progressive [-ing], prepositions in and on, plural [-s], and
determiners a and the. The elicitation probes were part of a
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