Methodologische Herausforderungen der empirischen Fremdsprachenerwerbsforschung am Beispiel des Kasuserwerbs: Die "Elicited Imitation Task"

One of the major challenges in empirical second language acquisition research is the collection of sufficient as well as the right language production data. This article presents and discusses the methodological challenges encountered in research that deals with the acquisition of German case marking by foreign language learners. With regard to German case marking, the right data entail functional uses of the cases, i.e. case use with arguments that do not take their canonical position. Previous studies experienced that it is difficult to elicit functional case use in oral language production (e.g., object topicalisation). To remedy the lack of the right data the present article proposes to apply the so-called Elicited Imitation Task.

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