The Acquisition of English Grammar and Phonology by Cantonese ESL Learners

Chan's exploration of the acquisition of English grammar and phonology by Cantonese learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) offers insights into the specific challenges encountered and posits ways to overcome these.

Alice Yin Wa Chan (PhD) is Associate Professor in the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. She gained her BA in linguistics from the University of Lancaster, UK, her MPhil in computer speech and language processing from the University of Cambridge, UK, and her PhD in linguistics from the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Before joining CityU, she had taught at different local universities in Hong Kong. She has published in various international journals, and contributed to edited books, professional magazines and conference proceedings. Her research and teaching interests include second language acquisition, English grammar, English phonetics and phonology, and lexicography.

1. Introduction 2. English and Chinese-Cantonese Grammar in Contrast 3. English and Cantonese Phonology in Contrast 4. Learner Problems in the Acquisition of English Grammar I: Interlingual Errors 5. Learner Problems in the Acquisition of English Grammar II: English Article Errors 6. Learner Problems in the Acquisition of English Grammar III: Other Errors 7. Learner Problems in the Acquisition of English Phonology I: Speech Production 8. Learner Problems in the Acquisition of English Phonology II: Speech Perception 9. Cantonese ESL Learners' Acquisition of Grammar and Phonology: L1 Influence? 10. The Teaching of Grammar to Cantonese ESL Learners 11. The Teaching of Phonology to Cantonese ESL Learners 12. Conclusions: The Way Forward