Literary Articles

Habit Formation Habit is a pattern of behaviour that is regular and which has become almost automatic as a result of repetition....

Mistake and Error Corder, in his 1967 paper has made a distinction between a “mistake” and an “error.” Error results from incomple...

Morpheme studies The masterminds behind morpheme studies are Dulay and Burt. They fashioned a scoring scheme that awarded different...

Performance Analysis Performance Analysis refers to the approaches to study the competence of the learners based on the study of th...

Motivation Motivation is the degree and type of desire experienced by the learner to acquire the L2. According Schuman and other SL...

Poverty of stimulus  Poverty of stimulus is a key concept in Chomsky’s theory of UG. According to him human brain is pre-programmed...

Projection Problem  Projection problem is the term used for the theory of “Poverty of the Stimulus” which has been given by Chomsky...

Negative Evidence ‘Negative evidence’ refers to the wrong or ungrammatical expressions. Negative evidence is a part of Chomsky’s un...

Superstrate language In a pidginization situation the language which affects another less prestigious or socially and culturally do...

Acculturation Acculturation is a process in which members of one cultural group adopt the beliefs and behaviors of another group. A...

Pidginization The development of a pidgin, which a simplified form of speech that is usually a mixture of two or more languages, ...

Pidgin A pidgin is a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a la...

Pied-piping and prepositional stranding Pied-piping describes the situation where a phrase larger than a single wh-word occurs in t...

Halo Effect The halo effect refers to a cognitive bias whereby the perception of a particular trait is influenced by the perception...

Pro-drop parameter One of the important parameters in UG is pro-drop parameter. A pro-drop language is a language in which certain ...

Unmarked and Markedness According to UG there are certain innate principles in human mind, by which a child gradually develops its ...

Core and Peripheral Grammar In UG core and peripheral grammar can be defined as a set of rules that a child learns as a part of its...

Principles and parameters In UG principles and parameters can be defined as a framework in hunan brain and help the acquisition of ...

LAD Language acquisition device or LAD is the innate human ability to learn a language.It is the key concept in Chomsky’s theory of...

Universal grammar Universal grammar can be simply defined as a set of universal innate principles of grammar shared by all languages.Tha...