As this research is limited in scope and sample to examining the effect of three (viz., consciousness-raising tasks, input enhancement, and task-essential language) out of eleven FFI techniques on linguistic (viz. the simple present, gerunds, modal auxiliaries, questions, the present perfect and conditionals type II) and pragmatic (viz.
For data collection, two pre−/post tests were designed by the researchers: a 35-item grammatical structures test (GST), targeting the simple present, gerund, modal auxiliaries, questions, present perfect, and conditionals/type II and a 30-scenario Discourse Completion Task (DCT) divided equally among the speech acts of apology, request, and suggestion.
found no well-formed auxiliary fronted questions (like Is the girl who is in the jumping castle Kayley's daughter?) in his sample of the British National Corpus.
If that were the case, then the lack of complex auxiliary fronted questions in the pld would be both unsurprising and unproblematic: young children don't hear the sentences, but nor do they learn the rule.
Sampson found that speakers invariably made errors when apparently attempting to produce complex auxiliary-fronted questions, and often emended their utterance to a tag form instead (e.g., The girl who's in the jumping castle is Kayley's daughter, isn't she?).
For example, auxiliaries undergo subject-auxiliary inversion to form questions ("He was talking to Mary". / "Was he talking to Mary?") while main verbs cannot ("He talked to Mary". / *"Talked he to Mary?").
One auxiliary assumption one may question is the traditional link between quantification and existence.
The auxiliary verb in the tag questions matches that of the clause.
The PEQ questionnaire is broader and has focused on the patients' experiences of the consultation in terms of communication, emotions, outcome similar to the PEI questions, barriers and auxiliary staff [ 13].
However, experiences with different staff members could vary greatly: We saw [the consultant], who was excellent, he was informative, he was helpful, he was sympathetic, but there was one nurse that came across as abrasive and therefore you're a bit wary about asking too many questions, but the auxiliary nurse was lovely….
(Son of 87-year-old, female, standard care patient) We saw [the consultant], who was excellent, he was informative, he was helpful, he was sympathetic, but there was one nurse that came across as abrasive and therefore you're a bit wary about asking too many questions, but the auxiliary nurse was lovely….
