NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Measuring Second Language Proficiency with EEG Synchronization: How Functional Cortical Networks and Hemispheric Involvement Differ as a Function of Proficiency Level in Second Language Speakers
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Reiterer, Susanne; Pereda, Ernesto; Bhattacharya, Joydeep – Second Language Research, 2009
This article examines the question of whether university-based high-level foreign language and linguistic training can influence brain activation and whether different L2 proficiency groups have different brain activation in terms of lateralization and hemispheric involvement. The traditional and prevailing theory of hemispheric involvement in…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Second Language Learning, Neurology, Monolingualism
Learning and Interaction: Developing through Talk
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Broady, Elspeth – Language Learning Journal, 2006
There has been much reflection recently on how language gets used in language classrooms, by language learners and by language teachers. Rather than the perennial debate about target-language use, the author is referring to the growing body of classroom research in the area of linguistics known as pragmatics. Pragmatics, as defined by Crystal…
Descriptors: Speech, Oral Language, Interpersonal Relationship, English (Second Language)
Genitive Prepositions Used with the Dative in Spoken German.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Petig, William E. – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 1997
Presents results of a study of the use of the dative with the genitive prepositions "(an)statt,""trotz,""wahrend" and "wegen" based on two corpora. Notes that a comparison of these two computerized corpora shows that no clear trend exists regarding the increased use of the dative with these prepositions in…
Descriptors: College Students, Computational Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries