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Eskildsen, Søren W. – Language Learning, 2015
Drawing on usage-based linguistics and its exemplar-based path of language learning, from recurring multiword expressions to increasingly abstract, schematized constructions, this article examines evidence for the exemplar-based developmental sequences for yes/no interrogatives and WH interrogatives in English as a second language (L2). The…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Patterns
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Darcy, Isabelle; Mora, Joan C.; Daidone, Danielle – Language Learning, 2016
This study investigated the role of inhibition in second language (L2) learners' phonological processing. Participants were Spanish learners of L2 English and American learners of L2 Spanish. We measured inhibition through a retrieval-induced inhibition task. Accuracy of phonological representations (perception and production) was assessed through…
Descriptors: Phonology, Language Processing, Classification, Task Analysis
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Davis, John McE. – Language Learning, 2007
The study examines how learner biases toward a particular national type of English affect interlanguage pragmatics. Specifically, this study assesses the degree to which Korean ESL (English as a second language) students' preferences for North American English influence their willingness to use Australian-English routines while studying in…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Foreign Countries, North American English, Pragmatics