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Cross-Linguistic Effects in Grammatical Gender Assignment and Predictive Processing in L1 Greek, L1 Russian, and L1 Turkish Speakers of Norwegian as a Second Language
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Janne Bondi Johannessen; Björn Lundquist; Yulia Rodina; Eirik Tengesdal; Nina Hagen Kaldhol; Emel Türker; Valantis Fyndanis – Second Language Research, 2025
The present study examines grammatical gender knowledge in offline production (gender marking on indefinite articles) and online gender processing (visual world paradigm) in adult second language (L2) learners of Norwegian with three different first languages (L1s): Greek, Russian, and Turkish. In particular, it investigates the role of the…
Descriptors: Grammar, Adult Learning, Second Language Learning, Norwegian
Narrative Competence of Adult L2 Russian Learners
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Krasnoshchekova, Sofia; Kashleva, Kseniia – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019
Narrative competence is an essential part of language proficiency. Research of narrative competence has both a theoretical and empirical value. Our study aims to assess narrative competence of adult L2 Russian learners and to investigate the relationship between their narrative competence and their language proficiency. For assessment, we used the…
Descriptors: Russian, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Narration
The Impact of Second- and Third-Language Learning on Language Aptitude and Working Memory
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Huang, Ting; Loerts, Hanneke; Steinkrauss, Rasmus – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
An increasing number of adults learn more than one foreign language simultaneously. While the cognitive benefits of using multiple languages from birth have been studied extensively, little is known about possible cognitive benefits of learning multiple languages simultaneously in adulthood. Among the cognitive abilities which play a role in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Adult Learning, Multilingualism
Collaborative Writing in a Third Language: How Writers Use and View Their Plurilingual Repertoire during Collaborative Writing Tasks
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Payant, Caroline; Maatouk, Zeina – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2022
Recent years have witnessed major development in plurilingual pedagogies which support the use of learners' repertoire of languages in language learning contexts (Payant & Galante, 2022; Piccardo, 2013). However, little research has been undertaken to examine adult plurilingual learners' perceptions towards the use of their languages during…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Second Language Learning of Complex Inflectional Systems
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Kempe, Vera; Brooks, Patricia J. – Language Learning, 2008
This study explored learning and generalization of parts of the Russian case-marking paradigm, an inflecting-fusional system in which affixes simultaneously mark several grammatical features (case, gender, number, animacy). In Experiment 1, adult English speakers (N = 43) were exposed to nouns with transparent gender marking in the nominative case…
Descriptors: Nouns, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Adult Learning