Eeva-Liisa Nyqvist

Bio: Eeva-Liisa Nyqvist is an academic researcher from University of Helsinki. The author has contributed to research in topics: Second-language acquisition & Swedish as a foreign language. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 5 citations.

The role of inter- and intralingual factors and compendiums in acquisition of Swedish as a foreign language: the case of Finns learning definiteness and the use of articles

Abstract: This study explores the acquisition of definiteness and article use in written Swedish by Finnish-speaking teenagers (n=67) during the three years in secondary school The studied grammatical phenomena are problematic for all L2 learners of Swedish and are especially difficult for learners, such as Finns, whose L1 lacks expressive definiteness morphologically The informants produce complex NPs already in their first narratives The form of NPs poses significantly more problems than the choice of a correct form of definiteness Hence, it is possible that previous knowledge in English helps informants in the choice of definiteness The common nominator for problematic expressions is simplification, in both formal aspects and in the relation between form and meaning Previous research in Sweden has made similar findings The most central types of NPs build an acquisition explainable by a complexity hierarchy between the different types of NPs The informants master best NPs without definiteness markers Definite singulars containing an ending are significantly easier than indefinite singulars, the indefinite article of which is notoriously difficult for Finns learning Swedish as an L2 This acquisition order, however, profoundly differs from the traditional order of instruction of their compendiums

第二语言习得研究 = The study of second language acquisition

Abstract: Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE - BACKGROUND Introduction 1. Second language acquisition research: an overview PART TWO - THE DESCRIPTION OF LEARNER LANGUAGE Introduction 2. Learner errors and error analysis 3. Developmental patterns: order and sequence in second language acquisition 4. Variability in learner language 5. Pragmatic aspects of learner language PART THREE - EXPLAINING SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: EXTERNAL FACTORS Introduction 6. Social factors and second language acquisition 7. Input and interaction and second language acquisition PART FOUR - EXPLAINING SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: INTERNAL FACTORS Introduction 8. Language transfer 9. Cognitive accounts of second language acquisition 10. Linguistic universals and second language acquisition PART FIVE - EXPLAINING INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Introduction 11. Individual learner differences 12. Learning strategies PART SIX - CLASSROOM SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Introduction 13. Classroom interaction and second language acquisition 14. Formal instruction and second language acquisition PART SEVEN - CONCLUSION Introduction 15. Data, theory, and applications in second language acquisition research Glossary Bibliography Author index Subject index

Definiteness in written Swedish by Finnish-speaking immersion pupils at the end of immersion: A comparison with non-immersion pupils

Abstract: There are two primary goals for this study – first, to analyse definiteness and article use in spontaneous writing in Swedish by 15-year-old Finnish immersion students (n = 162) and secondly, to compare their performance with that of non-immersion students at the same age (n = 67). Analyses at the group level show that immersion students usually perform significantly better than the control group, but they also reveal similar problems to what L2-Swedish non-immersion students have demonstrated in previous studies, such as omission of indefinite articles and difficulty in choosing the right definite form of the noun. Still, these inaccuracies occurred less often in the data from the immersion students. The studied constructions also show at the group level an acquisition order similar to that reported in previous studies, explainable by different aspects of complexity and cross-linguistic influence. Analyses on the individual level, however, show different acquisition orders depending on the criteria being used.

Denna – den här – den där. Om demonstrativer i tvärspråklig belysning. En minnesskrift till Elsie Wijk-Andersson (This – this one – that one. On demonstratives in different languages. A memorial publication for Elsie Wijk-Andersson).

Abstract: Denna – den har – den dar. Om demonstrativer i tvarspraklig belysning. En minnesskrift till Elsie Wijk-Andersson (This – this one – that one. On demonstratives in different languages. A memorial publication for Elsie Wijk-Andersson).