Methods for Tapping the Competence of Hindi (L2) Learners
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Adopting an appropriate methodology for eliciting data from students learning a foreign or second language (L2) has always been a tough task for tapping the competence of young learners’ before they lose interest in the data elicitation tasks requires researchers to be skillful and perceptive. This work stems from the research study conducted by Kumar (2017). It highlights the methodological procedure followed for collecting data from (L1) Korean students who were part of the Semester Aboard program at the Department of Linguistics, University of Delhi for learning Hindi (L2) as a foreign language from August to December 2016.
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