EFL Acquisition of English Causative Alternation with Integrated Concordances: Yuxia Wang and Suen Caesar Lun

In the fi eld of second language acquisition, English causative alternation has been identifi ed as a consistent challenge for learners of English as a foreign/second language. To promote the acquisition of the target form in the classroom, our research investigated the effects of integrating concordances in two different learning conditions (inductive and deductive). As an example, consider the English causative alternation.