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Direct linkWilliam G. Travers – ProQuest LLC, 2024
To date, most classroom-based research into the learning of a third language (L3) in the US has examined patterns of acquisition among various groups of bilinguals. Situated mainly within the context of "Portuguese for Spanish Speakers" (PSS), studies typically group learners based on the sequence / age of onset of their main background…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Second Language Learning, Metalinguistics, Portuguese
John W. Derks – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Do assimilationist restrictions on a minority language lead to greater national unity or a more rebellious minority population? Under what conditions might short-term backlash to language assimilation evolve into greater national unity in the long term? While much of the literature on ethnic politics implicitly treats language simply as an…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Cost Effectiveness, Acculturation, Political Influences
Beloucif, Oihida – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This is a longitudinal case study of two groups of students (24 students in total) from the Foreign Languages Department of the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras. This research deals with the acquisition of the French adverbial pronouns "en" and "y" through two different teaching approaches, the implicit-inductive teaching…
Descriptors: Interference (Language), French, Portuguese, Pretests Posttests
Schwartz, Tomoko – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine factors that promote transformative learning experiences of college-level adult learners of foreign languages. This study was conducted to analyze how college-level adult learners of foreign languages experience transformative learning through educational and non-educational experiences. Mezirow's…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Experience, College Students, Adult Students
Napier Boyer, Pamela – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this research was to ascertain if the reading comprehension skills of English-speaking fifth grade students improve when they study a second language. The research was done in an inner-city elementary school in Rochester, New York. The researcher provided a weekly after-school workshop in foreign languages for a group of children…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grade 5, Reading Comprehension, Speech Communication
Paver, Barbara E. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Foreign language lyric diction is a compulsory subject in all undergraduate vocal performance degrees in universities. However, the effectiveness of its teaching depends on the capacity of students to absorb the material, for which many are largely unprepared, due to their lack of previous language study. Further, native speakers of North American…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pronunciation, Articulation (Speech), Textbooks
