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Alejandro Cuza; Laura Solano-Escobar – Second Language Research, 2025
The present study examined the production of inalienable possession with body parts in Spanish among 20 school-age children of Mexican-born parents born and raised in the United States. The results were compared to those of 20 first-generation immigrant parents (main input providers), 27 Spanish-dominant children of similar age, and 12 Spanish…
Descriptors: Native Language, Spanish, Mexican Americans, Language Dominance
Amanda Mahnaz Yazdani – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation investigated how a bilingual's experiences can affect how their first language pronunciation can differ from monolingual speakers of their two languages. We used a methodology incorporating quantitative phonetic measurements of voice onset time and vowel formants, grammar and vocabulary tests, and qualitative measures of language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Phonetics, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Trebits, Anna – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2021
This paper investigates the relationship between multilingualism, code-switching, target language contact and pragmatic and grammatical awareness in learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). Participants (N = 144) were university students enrolled in English language courses at a German university. The study employed a cross-sectional…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Ruivivar, June; Lapierre, Cynthia – Research-publishing.net, 2018
Monolingual and parallel concordancers have both been found to benefit second-language (L2) grammatical development. However, the relative benefits of these two concordancer types remains unclear. The present study compares learning outcomes and learners' perceptions of a monolingual English (Corpus of Contemporary American English, COCA) and a…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
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Chan, Alice Y. W. – Applied Linguistics, 2012
This article reports on the results of a study which investigated advanced Cantonese English as a Second Language (ESL) learners' use of a monolingual dictionary for determining the meanings of familiar English words used in less familiar contexts. Thirty-two university English majors in Hong Kong participated in a dictionary consultation task,…
Descriptors: Sentences, Grammar, Second Languages, Monolingualism
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Jalkanen, Juha, Ed.; Jokinen, Elina, Ed.; Taalas, Peppi, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2015
"Voices of Pedagogical Development" is a collection of articles written by teacher-researchers at the University of Jyväskylä Language Centre. It shares the fruits of their ideas and development work in the areas of academic literacies, new forms of teaching and learning, and internationalisation. Part one aims at establishing and…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Literacy, Higher Education, Educational Practices