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| "abstract": "The English articles, the, indefinite a/an, and zero can often be troublesome for English language learners to master, especially in longer texts. Thomas (1989) demonstrated that English as a second language (L2) learners from first languages (L1) that do not have the equivalent of an article system encounter more problems using articles. Ionin and Wexler (2004) found that such learners fluctuate between the semantic parameters of definiteness and specificity. This study examines English L2 article use with Taiwanese English learners to determine the potential factors influencing English article substitution and error patterns in their academic writing. This corpus-based analysis used natural data collected for the Academic Writing Textual Analysis (AWTA) corpus. A detailed online tagging system was constructed to examine article use, covering the semantic (specific and hearer knowledge) as well as the other features of the English article. The results indicated that learners overused both the definite and indefinite articles but underused the zero article. The definite article was substituted for the indefinite article in specific environments. Although no significant difference existed between specific and non-specific semantic environments in zero article errors, a significant difference emerged between plural and mass/non-count nouns. These results suggest that, in regard to writing, learners need to focus on the semantic/pragmatic relationships of specificity and hearer (or reader) knowledge.", |
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| "text": "The English articles, the, indefinite a/an, and zero can often be troublesome for English language learners to master, especially in longer texts. Thomas (1989) demonstrated that English as a second language (L2) learners from first languages (L1) that do not have the equivalent of an article system encounter more problems using articles. Ionin and Wexler (2004) found that such learners fluctuate between the semantic parameters of definiteness and specificity. This study examines English L2 article use with Taiwanese English learners to determine the potential factors influencing English article substitution and error patterns in their academic writing. This corpus-based analysis used natural data collected for the Academic Writing Textual Analysis (AWTA) corpus. A detailed online tagging system was constructed to examine article use, covering the semantic (specific and hearer knowledge) as well as the other features of the English article. The results indicated that learners overused both the definite and indefinite articles but underused the zero article. The definite article was substituted for the indefinite article in specific environments. Although no significant difference existed between specific and non-specific semantic environments in zero article errors, a significant difference emerged between plural and mass/non-count nouns. These results suggest that, in regard to writing, learners need to focus on the semantic/pragmatic relationships of specificity and hearer (or reader) knowledge.", |
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| "text": "The use of cohesive devices in writing is a well-researched topic in second language acquisition research, taking on a greater significance in recent years as increasingly more students are being asked to present their work in English, thus pointing to the need for greater accuracy and cohesion. Errors within the article system (i.e., a, an, the, and the zero article) have been noted in studies examining L2 learners' writing, and such errors are present in advanced learners' texts as well (Lee, 2007) . To put this issue into perspective, a corpus study of 668 TOEFL essays from Chinese, Japanese, and Russian students found that 13% of sentences-or 1 in every 8 noun phrases-had article errors (Han, Chodorow, & Leacock, 2006) .", |
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| "text": "In written discourse, the omission of an article or the use of the wrong article may cause some ambiguity for the reader, especially when the writer wants to identify a noun anaphorically/cataphorically or assume reader/writer familiarity. Halliday and Hasan (1976) , in their time-honored investigation into cohesion, pointed out that, \"Whenever the information is contained in the text, the presence of an article creates a link between the sentence in which it occurs and that containing the referential information; in other words, it is cohesive\" (p. 74). Therefore, the use of articles creates an understanding between the writer and reader, enabling the reader to locate where a noun or noun phrase is located as well as identify if it is already understood as known by the reader.", |
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| "text": "In addition to the above, the use of the English article involves the integration of semantic, pragmatic, and grammatical functions, as no one-to-one form-function mapping exists for each article, creating a large number of rules for students to master. In terms of native Mandarin-speaking English learners, article errors have been found to be cohesive writing errors in research by Chen (2002) , Chiang (2003) , and Ting (2003) .", |
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| "text": "Research into article errors has revealed that English article errors may be due to an inability to acquire the semantic feature of specificity (Ionin & Wexler, 2004; Snape, 2006) , resulting in the overuse of the definite article in specific environments. On the other hand, it may be a pragmatic deficit (Diez-Bedmar & Papp, 2008) when learners overuse the definite article due to extra-linguistic features, such as world knowledge. Other studies (Goto-Butler, 2002; Snape, 2008; Yoon, 1993) have investigated noun countability in terms of its influence on article errors.", |
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| "text": "Although previous research has examined Mandarin English L2 article use in spoken discourse (Moore, 2004; Robertson 2000) or article use in a cloze test (Lee, 2007; Snape, 2009) , only Diez-Bedmar and Papp (2008) have investigated texts from native Mandarin speaking English learners. They concluded that native Mandarin-speaking English learners have both a grammatical and a pragmatic deficit. Nevertheless, in their study, the essays were completed with time restrictions placing constraints on the writer, which may have resulted in more article errors.", |
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| "text": "The aim of this study is to identify the features that influence students' article use or misuse. We first noticed the frequency of article errors in undergraduate writing while tagging cohesion errors for the Academic Writing Textual Analysis (AWTA) corpus, an online corpus of Taiwanese undergraduate writing. Although the article errors did not seriously impair communication, they interrupted the cohesion of the writing. Consequently, it was felt that the reasons for these errors deserved further attention.", |
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| "text": "What is the influence of specificity and definiteness on the English article substitution and error patterns in the academic writing of Taiwanese college students?", |
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| "text": "English has three articles, the definite, indefinite, and zero, which have a wide range of semantic and syntactic functions in discourse (Moore, 2004) . A widely-used theory related to English article use is the semantic wheel (Bickerton, 1981) . According to Bickerton, English noun phrases (NPs) can be classified according to two semantic features: specific reference [+/-SR] and hearer knowledge [+/-HK]. Table 1 illustrates the four NPs. Many studies have shown that the failure to recognize [HK] has led to article errors in article production tasks (Lee, 2007; Robertson, 2000) and cloze tests (Goto-Butler, 2002; Trenkic, 2008) . A cat likes mice. The whale is a mammal. (zero) Language is a great invention of human kind.", |
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| "text": "[\u2212SR, \u2212HK], (a, zero): Equative NPs or NPs in negation, question, or irrealis mood.", |
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| "text": "A more recent development in article system research was proposed by Ionin and Wexler, (2004) . Based on their studies of Russian and Korean-two languages that do not have an article system-these authors proposed that articles are governed by semantic parameters. Their theory is known as the article choice parameter.", |
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| "text": "Evidence for this comes from languages such as Samoan, which has different articles to indicate if a NP is specific or non-specific. English does not have the [+/-specific] setting, but instead has the definiteness setting [+/-definiteness]. Samoan uses the article le with specific noun phrases and se with non-specific, but does not mark definiteness (Ionin & Wexler, 2004) .", |
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| "text": "For [-] article languages, the authors proposed the fluctuation hypotheses, which states that learners fluctuate between the two parameter settings until they have enough input and the settings stabilize. Moreover, L2 learners may adopt parameter settings not found in their L1 or their L2 because, if an L2 learner lacks articles in his/her L1, no language transfer should occur as there should be no parameter preference (Ionin & Wexler, 2004) . Thus, if languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, are seen as having neither articles for definiteness nor specificity, learners should fluctuate between the two settings for definite and specific reference. Based on this, Ionin & Wexler (2004) made specific predictions for [-] article L2 learners (see Table 2 ). (Snape, 2009, p. 32) Although studies indicate that the fluctuation hypothesis correctly predicts L2 output (Snape, 2009) , it has been criticized for several reasons. First, the fluctuation hypothesis does not take the zero article into account. For many first mention mass and plural nouns, specificity-as in first mention singular nouns-can be a semantic feature of zero article NPs, so the fluctuation hypothesis should also be able to predict these error types. Furthermore, Snape (2008) Hawkins (1978) initially based his location theory on previous article studies and subsequently revised his theory (Hawkins, 1991) . Hawkins identified eight different types of definite articles. By using the, a writer or speaker asks the reader/listener to locate the referent using knowledge that is available in the text (anaphoric and associative anaphoric use), can be sensed in the vicinity (visible and immediate situation use), or is available from local or general knowledge (immediate and local situation use). The other types of use-what Hawkins (1978) called 'structural information,' which refers to prepositional phrases, relative clauses, or adjectives-help locate the referent.", |
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| "text": "1. Hu2fei1 mai3shu1 qu4 le \u80e1\u98db\u8cb7\u66f8\u53bb\uf9ba Hufei buy book go = Hufei went to buy a book/books (indefinite).", |
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| "text": "This section explains the rationale and formulas for reporting accuracy and presents the accuracy of the three articles. Following this is a description of the distribution patterns of each article, including the semantic and structural functions. After the essays had been tagged, the data was checked for inter-rater reliability, and the raw frequency counts for each error type were computed.", |
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| "text": "In order to report the frequency of the article errors, the data had to be normalized to allow data from different texts to be accurately compared. As the lengths of the essays differed between participants, reporting the raw frequency counts would not present an accurate account of the errors. In a longer text, there are more opportunities for errors to occur, so 'normalization' is a formula that adjusts the raw frequency counts so texts of different lengths can be compared (Pica, 1983) . In normalization, the raw frequency counts are divided by the number of words in the text then multiplied by the mean essay lengths for the 30 essays, which are 980 words per essay. The following example illustrates the normalization formula: definite for zero errors 26 /1020 x 980 = 24.98 definite for zero errors per 980 words.", |
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| "text": "In this formula, there are 26 definite for zero errors in one essay. This is divided by the total number of words in the essay then multiplied by the mean essay length, giving a total of 24.98 errors per 980 words. Table 3 reports the distribution of the article types and article errors throughout the corpus. It is presented as a matrix table and it is read from left to right. The article type the on the horizontal axis shows the definite article, and reading the column from left to right indicates where the definite article is substituted for another article. If the table is read from left to right, starting with the definite article, it indicates where the definite article is being substituted in place of another. For example, reading the matrix from left to right indicates that 9.16% the for a substitution errors occurred. The highest frequency is definite for zero errors at 28.45%. Countability errors occurred when the indefinite article was substituted for the zero article or vice-versa. The results illustrate that 6.77% zero for a/an errors occurred, and 2.45% a for zero errors occurred. The number of zero for the and a for the errors are low at 5.33% and 0.79%, respectively, indicating that the frequency of definite article underuse is low. Table 3 indicates that overuse of the indefinite and zero article is low, but more errors are made with the definite article, while countability errors are relatively lower. In other words, there are far more semantic or pragmatic errors than grammatical errors. Grammatical errors are due to noun countability errors where the writer must assign the indefinite article to singular nouns and the zero article to plural or mass/non-count nouns. The next section analyzes the influence of semantic NP environments and countability in order to determine their impact on article errors, as the effects of specificity and countability have been well-documented as factors that influence L2 learners' article errors. Table 4 illustrates the frequency of the main article errors according to NP environment and countability. The highest frequency of errors can be found in definite for zero specific plural errors followed by the for specific indefinite a/an errors. These descriptive results suggest that specificity influences the frequency of the for indefinite a/an errors, as more errors occur in specific NPs. The frequency of zero for a errors is low at 10.58% of total errors, but suggests that some participants have trouble using the correct article with singular and plural nouns. The number of a for zero and zero for the errors was not reported as their frequencies were very low, indicating that this was not a problem for the participants. The frequency of definite for zero errors in both specific and non-specific environments suggests that specificity may not be the only influence on definite for zero errors.", |
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| "text": "The results demonstrate that the learners in this corpus lacked accuracy with regard to the zero article, regardless of semantic type. As a result, the participants often compensated for this by using the definite article. The indefinite article cannot be used for plural nouns or mass or non-count nouns due to countability rules. Thus, a writer has two article options: the zero or the definite. Although the fluctuation hypothesis may explain the errors in specific environments, it cannot explain definite article overuse in non-specific environments; thus, the effects of other influences need to be considered-particularly mass/non-count nouns or the hearer knowledge [HK] feature of definite articles.", |
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| "text": "In English, the context-namely, the speaker's and hearer's knowledge of the context-determines whether an NP can be located by both participants. If the writer believes that the hearer is aware of the noun, the definite article is used. In other words, as Diez-Bedmar and Papp (2008) pointed out, a writer often takes the readers' knowledge into account when using the definite article.", |
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| "text": "According to Hawkins (1991) , using the definite article enables the hearer to access the NP in a p-set (a set of knowledge known by the hearer/reader as being definite). The speaker/writer should use the definite article when he/she is confident that the other party knows that the NP is definite. A communication breakdown will occur if the speaker/writer uses the definite article erroneously or mistakenly believes that the hearer has such knowledge. The writers in this corpus have not been falsely assuming that the reader had definite knowledge-this would signal a lack of pragmatic awareness-but the writers may not have acquired how the definite article signals this knowledge. Thus, errors with the definite article could be classified as errors regarding the acquisition of the pragmatic functions of the English definite article.", |
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| "text": "The results reveal that participants made significantly more errors with plural nouns than with mass/non-count nouns. Errors involving the definite article with mass/non-count nouns have been found in other studies with Japanese L1s (Goto-Butler, 2002; Snape, 2008) , although the results in this study reveal plural errors have a greater effect on error patterns. A t-test indicated a significant difference between mass/non-count nouns and plural nouns, indicating that definite article errors with mass/non-count nouns are less frequent than errors with plural nouns. This differs from what Goto-Butler (2002) found with their Japanese participants, who made more errors with mass/non-count nouns. In other words, for the participants in this study, the influence of mass/non-count nouns is not a significant factor in English definite article errors.", |
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| "text": "These examples indicate that zero articles were substituted for the indefinite article. One reason for this is that the writer applied his/her L1 rule instead of using an article with singular nouns because, in Mandarin Chinese, nouns do not always need a classifier, demonstrative, or numeral.", |
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| "text": "This section will offer suggestions to the language teacher based on the results of this study. It has already been pointed out the English articles are extremely difficult words to teach for two reasons. First, the definite article stacks multiple functions onto one word, making it cognitively more demanding for a learner to process. Second, as article errors do not cause communication breakdowns in daily conversation, they may be subject to fossilization in a learner's interlanguage (Brender, 2002) . Although many researchers have looked at ways to teach all of the articles under one system (Bitchener, 2008; Master, 1990; 1994) , the results of the current study demonstrate that the most frequent errors occur with the definite article in two main areas: the for zero, and the for specific indefinite. As most of the errors involved the definite article, the semantic environment of [+/-HK] and [+/-SR] are effective parameters for helping learners determine whether an NP needs the hearer's knowledge element or whether it is just a specific noun. In this way, both specificity and hearer knowledge can be brought into focus, as this study found it was the influence of both factors that resulted in more than 80% of the article errors.", |
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| "content": "<table><tr><td>Error type</td><td>Freq. of errors</td><td>% of total errors*</td></tr><tr><td>Zero for A</td><td>35.65</td><td>10.58</td></tr><tr><td>Definite for zero</td><td/><td/></tr><tr><td>Non-count specific</td><td>23.98</td><td>9.62</td></tr><tr><td>Plural specific</td><td>45.12</td><td>18.10</td></tr><tr><td>Plural non-specific</td><td>35.12</td><td>14.09</td></tr><tr><td>Definite for zero non-count non-specific</td><td>16.14</td><td>6.47</td></tr><tr><td>The for A</td><td/><td/></tr><tr><td>Specific</td><td>41.09</td><td>16.48</td></tr></table>", |
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