Investigating Indonesian EFL learners’ knowledge and use of English causative constructions

Author:

Wijaya David1,Winstin Evelyn2

Affiliation:

1. School of Languages and Cultures , The University of Queensland , Gordon Greenwood Building , Saint Lucia 4072 , Australia

2. Faculty of Education and Language, Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya , Jakarta , Indonesia

Abstract

Abstract This paper explored Indonesian EFL learners’ explicit knowledge, processing, and use of English periphrastic causative constructions make, have, and get. 20 English L1 speakers and 20 Indonesian intermediate level EFL learners majoring in English Language Education at an Indonesian university took part in this study. Data were collected through a cloze task, a sentence completion task, an interpretation task, and a set of open-ended questions asking learners to provide descriptions about their knowledge of the constructions. Results showed that learners did not always use the first noun strategy to identify the agent in a passive causative construction. Also, their suppliances of the causative verbs in most items did not significantly differ from L1 speakers. However, the syntactic patterns were mostly non-target-like. They demonstrated insufficient explicit knowledge that could enable them to verbalize the formal and functional aspects underlying the constructions. Pedagogical implications along with suggestions to improve instruction are discussed.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

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