Journal of Undergraduate Research
Keywords
morphological feature, lexical feature, identification application, elicited imitation, EI
College
Humanities
Department
Linguistics and English Language
Abstract
Elicited imitation (EI) was originally used to study L1 acquisition in children and has since been applied to L2 oral proficiency testing (Chaudron, 1994). The PSST research group I am involved with has been researching EI as a viable method of language proficiency testing for some years now. An EI test consists of a series of sentence-length items that a subject must repeat verbatim after hearing each one. The sentences must be carefully chosen for their lexical, morphological, syntactic, and semantic content as well as for their length (usually counted in syllables). The primary impetus for this research project lies with EI item creation and item analysis.
Recommended Citation
Hendrickson, Ross and Lonsdale, Dr. Deryle
(2013)
"Creating a Sentence-level Syntactic, Morphological and Lexical Feature Identification Application,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013:
Iss.
1, Article 919.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/919