ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses methodology and procedure that are followed in the current investigation of an attentional approach to second language acquisition of English questions addressed in this study. All 78 intermediate participants were non-English-major freshmen from Anhui University, a key university in the country. They majored in three different fields, that is, economy, computer science and international business. Foreign language aptitude consists of different abilities in learning a foreign language. The ability to recognize grammatical functions involves both semantic and syntactic analysis of sentences parts, which is of potential importance in processing English transitivity alternation because its acquisition involves the same ability in recognizing verb semantic and syntactic properties. The rule governing the verb semantic-syntactic interface is prototypical rather than categorical, abstract rather than concrete, non-salient rather than salient, which brings out the importance of the selection of appropriate verbs as the instructed ones in the training session.
