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Direct linkZeynep Köylü; Nurullah Eryilmaz; Carmen Pérez-Vidal; Marjolijn Verspoor; Hana Gustafsson – Language Learning, 2024
Because of authentic exposure, study-abroad sojourners are expected to become more proficient in terms of holistic formulaicity (defined as targetlike language use of intensifiers, fillers, multiword sequences, lexical features, verb-argument constructions, pragmatic and discourse features, and so on), use of formulaic sequences, and lexical…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Language Usage, Language Proficiency, Diaries
Muñoz, Carmen; Cadierno, Teresa; Casas, Isabel – Language Learning, 2018
This study compared receptive English grammar skills of two groups of 7- and 9-year-old Danish children at the beginning of second language (L2) instruction in English, and two groups of Spanish/Catalan children of the same age after several years of instruction. The study examined the influence of two language-related factors (receptive…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Receptive Language, Grammar
Vasylets, Olena; Gilabert, Roger; Manchón, Rosa M. – Language Learning, 2017
Taking a psycholinguistic orientation within task-based language teaching scholarship, this study investigated the effects of mode (oral vs. written) and task complexity on second language (L2) performance. The participants were 78 Catalan/Spanish learners of English as a foreign language. Half of the participants performed the simple and complex…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Seibert Hanson, Aroline E.; Carlson, Matthew T. – Language Learning, 2014
We assessed the roles of first language (L1) and second language (L2) proficiency in the processing of preverbal clitics in L2 Spanish by considering the predictions of four processing theories--the Input Processing Theory, the Unified Competition Model, the Amalgamation Model, and the Associative-Cognitive CREED. We compared the performance of L1…
Descriptors: Language Role, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Spanish
Prat-Sala, Merce; Hahn, Ulrike – Language Learning, 2007
In an investigation of discourse sensitivity, Catalan-speaking children aged 4 to 8 years were asked two different questions in a picture description task. One was a wide-focus question ("What is happening?"); the other was a narrow-focus question ("What is happening to 'the patient'?"). Children of all age groups displayed sensitivity to the…
Descriptors: Word Order, Child Language, Questioning Techniques, Uncommonly Taught Languages
Comajoan, Llorenc – Language Learning, 2006
According to the aspect hypothesis (Andersen & Shirai, 1996; Bardovi-Harlig, 2000), perfective morphology emerges before imperfective morphology, it is first used in telic predicates (achievements and accomplishments) and it later extends to atelic predicates (activities and states). The opposite development is hypothesized for imperfective…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Romance Languages, Second Language Learning, Data Analysis
