Acquisition of be by Cantonese ESL learners in Hong Kong and its pedagogical implications

The present study of the acquisition of be by Cantonese ESL learners in Hong Kong investigates the relationship between knowledge, input and perfonnance. Be is an . .exponent of two fundamental properties of sentence structure in English: tense and. subject verb agreement. Neither of these propertie...

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Main Author: Chan, Mable
Published: University of Essex 2008
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.485339