Second Language Acquisition Introducing Intervention Research

Chapter 3 provides an overview of the English articles the and a(n) in SLA and intervention research. The chapter discusses semantic concepts commonly addressed in SLA studies of articles, including definiteness, specificity, genericity, and kind reference. After a review of relevant SLA experimental studies on the topic, Chapter 3 provides an overview of intervention studies with English articles. The intervention studies are divided into two types: those that focus on particular instructional techniques, such as explicit instruction and different feedback types, and those that take as their starting point theoretical approaches to article semantics. English is the target language in all of the studies discussed, and many of the studies focus on challenges posed by English articles for learners from article-less native languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.