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Metalinguistic Knowledge of Salient vs. Unsalient Features: Evidence from the Arabic Construct State
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Azaz, Mahmoud – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
This study examined to what extent English-speaking learners of Arabic demonstrated varied metalinguistic knowledge of a salient feature (head-direction) vs. an unsalient feature (definiteness) in the Arabic construct state. In addition, it examined whether this knowledge was utilized in form-focused task performance. In the target construction,…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Morphemes
Does Morphology Play an Important Role in L2 Chinese Vocabulary Acquisition?
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Zhang, Haomin – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
The present study examined the role of morphological awareness in second language (L2) Chinese vocabulary acquisition through an investigation of linguistic universality and specificity underlying morphological awareness. Morphological awareness in this study was conceptualized as a universal and sharable cognitive resource as well as a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Morphemes
Teacher vs. Peer Oral Corrective Feedback in the German Language Classroom
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Sippel, Lieselotte; Jackson, Carrie N. – Foreign Language Annals, 2015
This classroom study investigated the effects of oral teacher and peer corrective feedback on the acquisition of the German present perfect tense, including auxiliary verb selection (a rule-based structure) and past participle formation (an item-based structure). Intermediate learners of German were assigned to a teacher feedback condition, a peer…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction