SLA and LCR synergies: Focusing on gender

The paper presents the results of a study on the acquisition of grammatical gender in the context of second language acquisition (SLA). Drawing from 196 written productions by adult Russian learners of Greek, this research explores the influence of the mother tongue (L1) in both lexical and syntactic dimensions. The data is sourced from the Greek Learner Corpus II (GLCII) and the findings are juxtaposed with those from a previous experimental study with a comparable design. By converging our methodologies, we elucidate the roles of both implicit and explicit grammar awareness and their influence on learner performance.