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Morphological and Syntactic Abilities in Taiwanese EFL Preschoolers’ Oral Narratives by

Ying-Chieh Chiang and Lu-Chun Lin

The basic processes associated in getting language skills are morphological and syntactic

processes. This research, therefore, examines the morphology and syntactic abilities of children

in Taiwan doing English as a Foreign Language (EFL). This is due to reason that the

morphological and syntactic capabilities of these children have always been used it is for the

children to get along with their language development. Therefore, this research asses and

analyzes their level of oral narratives. To determine any significant effect by the children’s

language analysis, measurement of their language productivity is conducted whereby there was a

language effect from the productivity measures as the results illustrated by eliciting the Mandarin

and English oral narratives from a wordless picture book (Mayer, 1969). The result of

morphological errors shows that these children exhibited more error patterns in English

morphology than the morphological errors for the Mandarin. This research thus gives EFL

practitioners an insight of morphological and syntactic abilities of the oral narratives in these two

languages (mandarin and English) since the children in Taiwan have used a more diversified

syntactic structure in Mandarin perfectly than in English.

The examination on oral narratives for the children’s native and second languages gives

significant information about the learners’ advancement in language skills (Gutierrez-Clellen,

1994). In this situation, the studies that analyzed the children’s use of oral narratives to gauge

their development in morphology worked in developing the children with low education

achievements, early focal brain injury, and children with language impairment never examined

the EFL of the children’s abilities as shown in their oral narratives for both languages. Though,

several researchers suggest that the oral narrative production by the children may reveal their

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MORPHOLOGY Name Course Instructor Morphological and Syntactic Abilities in Taiwanese EFL Preschoolers' Oral Narratives by Ying-Chieh Chiang and Lu-Chun Lin The basic processes associated in getting language skills are morphological and syntactic processes. This research, therefore, examines the morphology and syntactic abilities of children in Taiwan doing English as a Foreign Language (EFL). This is due to reason that the morphological and syntactic capabilities of these children have always been used it is for the children to get along with their language development. Therefore, this research asses and analyzes their level of oral narratives. To determine any significant effect by the children's language analysis, measurement of their language productivity is conducted whereby there was a language effect from the productivity measures as the results illustrated by eliciting the Mandarin and English oral narratives from a wordless picture book (Mayer, 1969). The result of morphological errors shows that these children exhibited more error patterns in English morphology than the morphological errors for the Mandarin. This research thus gives EFL practitioners an insight of morphological and syntactic abilities of the oral narratives in these two languages (mandarin and English) since the children in Taiwan have used a more diversified syntactic structure in Mandarin perfectly than in English. The examination on oral narratives for the children's native and second la ...
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