Beatriz González-Fernández

Jul 13, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Beatriz González-Fernández

INTRODUCTION The examination of developmental orders in the acquisition of linguistic features has been of historic interest in certain areas of second language acquisition (SLA), and researchers have discovered increasing amounts of systematicity in the ways languages are learnt. For example, research has now established that some grammatical rules (e.g., negation) are acquired in a particular developmental order by L1 and L2 learners (Ellis, 2008).