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Literacy within a Language Affects Bilinguals' Spoken Language Processing: Evidence from Grammaticality Judgments
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Nicoladis, Elena; Chan, Pui Ting – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Bilinguals can be proficient in oral language without necessarily knowing how to read and write in at least one of their languages. Literacy has been shown to affect language processing in monolinguals. In the present study, we test if literacy affects grammaticality judgments for Cantonese-English bilinguals who varied in Chinese literacy…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy, Language Processing, Grammar
Examining the Influence of Native and Non-Native English-Speaking Teachers on Korean EFL Writing
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Schenck, Andrew – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2020
Both Native English-Speaking Teachers (NESTs) and Non-Native English-Speaking Teachers (NNESTs) may have advantages as writing instructors, yet little is known about how they actually influence writing in EFL contexts like South Korea. To address this issue, 76 high proficiency Korean EFL university students from the International Corpus Network…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Teachers, Foreign Countries
Learners' Perceptions of Written German, L2 Writing Ability, and (Mis)attributions of Native vs. Non-Native Speaker Authorship
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Larson-Guenette, Julie – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examined L2 (German) awareness in intermediate American college learners of German through their judgments of 15 texts that had been authored by either native speakers (NS) or non-native speakers (NNS) or had been created through Web-Based Machine Translation (WBMT). The specific objectives sought to investigate: (a) how learners…
Descriptors: German, Written Language, Writing Ability, Second Languages
The Effects of Processing Instruction and Traditional Instruction on Iranian EFL Learners' Writing Ability
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Hashemnezhad, Hossein; Zangalani, Sanaz Khalili – English Language Teaching, 2012
The aim of the present paper was to investigate the effects of processing instruction and traditional instruction on Iranian EFL learners' writing ability. Thirty participants who were non-randomly selected out of 63 Intermediate EFL learners, taking English courses in a language institute in Khoy-Iran, participated in this quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning