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The Acquisition of the Korean Honorific Affix "(u)si" by Advanced L2 Learners
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Mueller, Jeansue; Jiang, Nan – Modern Language Journal, 2013
An experiment investigated adult language learners' ability to develop fully integrated cognitive representations of a difficult second language (L2) morphosyntactic feature: the Korean honorific verbal affix "(u)si." Native speaker (NS) and nonnative speaker (NNS) latencies during a word-by-word self-paced reading comprehension task…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Second Language Learning, Korean, Morphology (Languages)
Receptive Volitional Subjunctive Abilities in Heritage and Traditional Foreign Language Learners of Spanish
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Mikulski, Ariana M. – Modern Language Journal, 2010
The Spanish subjunctive has been known to pose difficulties for learners of Spanish whose native language is English (e.g., Collentine, 1997, 2003; Terrell, Baycroft, & Perrone, 1987). Investigating the same feature in heritage learners of Spanish can provide more information about the linguistic development of this growing population. This pilot…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Editing, Spanish, Heritage Education
Suppressing Inner Speech in ESL Reading: Implications for Developmental Changes in Second Language Word Recognition Processes
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Kato, Shigeo – Modern Language Journal, 2009
The effect of articulatory suppression on second language (L2) visual sentence comprehension and its relation to L2 reading proficiency and lower level processing efficiency were investigated in a series of experiments using 64 college-level Japanese English as a second language learners as participants. The results supported the hypothesis that…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Second Language Learning