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The Role of Intuition in the Acquisition of Complex Structures
Abstract
The present study to investigate the role of intuition in the acquisition of English sentences. The comprehension of complex sentences demands greater cognitive involvement and intuition plays a significant role in this regards. Fifty (50)non-native speakers of English (university students at M. Phil level) were randomly selected for data collection. A grammatical judgment test was conducted to gauge the grammatical knowledge of the participants. Following the grammatical judgment test, the participants were asked to explain their grammatical judgment employed in the grammatical judgment test through open ended questions. The findings of the study show that the grammatical knowledge of the participants was intuitive. In complex structure their grammatically was found more intuitive in nature as compared to simple structures. They could not explain some of the correct and incorrect grammatical judgment thereby indicating that what they could not explain was evidence of their intuitive knowledge. This type of intuitive knowledge is similar in nature to the native speakers’ knowledge of their language.
Authors
Asif Iqbal
M.Phil Scholar, Department of English, Hazara University, Mansehra, KP, Pakistan
Ghani Rahman
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Hazara University, Mansehra, KP, Pakistan
Dr. Abdul Hamid
Assistant Professor, Department of English & FL, University of Swat, Swat, KP, Pakistan
Keywords
First Language Acquisition, Grammatical Judgment, Intuition, Second Language Acquisition
