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Evans, Michael; Fisher, Linda; Forbes, Karen; Liu, Yongcan – Language and Education, 2019
Analysis of progression in spoken English by newcomer migrant-background learners has traditionally oscillated between formal assessment of oral proficiency and ethnographic description of naturally occurring peer discourse. This paper reports on data gathered from a longitudinal study of newly arrived students with English as an additional…
Descriptors: Immigrants, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Lin, Grace Hui Chin – Online Submission, 2019
Perhaps it is inevitable that non-native speakers' English articulations are displayed with their local accents, which are usually based on their mother tongues or dominant languages. However, fluency in English pronunciation and communication is still achievable by these groups of speakers in outer and expanding circles. In these two circles,…
Descriptors: Pidgins, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Flora, Rhegina Mangrobang; De Vera, Presley V. – Online Submission, 2019
This study draws from the tradition of Corpus Linguistics and attempted to determine the extent grammatical errors manifest in the business correspondence corpora composed by Sophomore BS Business Administration students of Pangasinan State University-San Carlos City Campus, located in San Carlos City, Pangasinan. The study was conducted within…
Descriptors: Grammar, Computational Linguistics, Business Communication, Error Analysis (Language)
Kemp, Lisa Suzanne – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Native-English speaking adults use morphological decomposition to understand complex words (e.g. "farmer" becomes "farm-er"). Whether decomposition is driven by semantic organization is still unclear. It is also unclear whether ESL adults and elementary age children use the same word processing strategies as native speaking…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Morphemes, English, Native Language
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Dao, Phung; Iwashita, Noriko; Gatbonton, Elizabeth – Language Teaching Research, 2017
This study explored the potential effects of communicative tasks developed using a reformulation of a task-based language teaching called Automatization in Communicative Contexts of Essential Speech Sequences (ACCESS) that includes automatization of language elements as one of its goals on learner attention to form in task-based interaction. The…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Sutton, Brett R. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation explores parallels between Complementizer Phrase (CP) and Determiner Phrase (DP) semantics, syntax, and morphology--including similarities in case-assignment, subject-verb and possessor-possessum agreement, subject and possessor semantics, and overall syntactic structure--in first language acquisition. Applying theoretical…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Phrase Structure, Language Acquisition, Semantics
Oganyan, Marina – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Research on recognition of complex words has primarily focused on affixational complexity in concatenative languages. This dissertation investigates both templatic and affixational complexity in Hebrew, a templatic language, with particular focus on the role of the root and template morphemes in recognition. It also explores the role of morphology…
Descriptors: Role, Morphology (Languages), Semitic Languages, Age Differences
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Yurtbasi, Metin – Online Submission, 2017
Turkish students tend to make considerable stress placement errors when pronouncing English polysyllabic words because of the interference of the traditional word stress patterns of their mother tongue. They usually misplace stresses in their utterance, both either as a result of their native pronunciation habits or their lack of stress-placing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Turkish
Campbell, Tasha M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation explores Spanish nominal plural formation from a morphophonological perspective. The primary objective is to better understand heritage bilinguals' (HBs') phonological categorization of the morphological element of number in their heritage language. This is done by way of picture-naming elicitation tasks of consonant-final nouns…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Morphemes, Spanish, Nouns
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Talosa, Arlene D.; Maguddayao, Ruth N. – TESOL International Journal, 2018
Writing is considered varied with context and cannot be distilled down to a set of abstract cognitive or technical abilities. It always involve a combination of talent and skill and that makes it complex yet writing becomes more complex for ESL learner when they write using the second language in the academic context. With the growing interest in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Syntax
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Gonzalez, Paz; Quintana Hernandez, Lucia – Modern Language Journal, 2018
The aim of this article is to show that the use of Spanish grammatical aspect is biased by inherent aspect depending on the learner's first language (L1). It considers both the Lexical Aspect Hypothesis (LAH; Andersen, 1986, and his followers) and the L1 Transfer Hypothesis (Izquierdo & Collins, 2008; McManus, 2015), and it compares the use of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar, Prediction
Mahdavi Emamy, Saideh – ProQuest LLC, 2017
A great deal of research concerning the acquisition of English morphology as a second language has been carried out in order to explain some typical stages in the acquisition of the English-s morphemes and the difficulty confronted by second language learners. According to Siegel (2003), interlanguage and functional transfer both play a crucial…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Transfer of Training, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Chan, Mable – Journal of Educational Research, 2018
In the first phase of this study, how English simple past is being taught in the classroom was examined through a questionnaire. The findings report how primary and secondary teachers perceived the difficulties faced by Cantonese English as a second language learners when acquiring English simple past, and the dominant teaching approaches or…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
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Kazazoglu, Semin – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
In today's world, educational contexts are getting increasingly multicultural. Although EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classes in Turkey were mostly composed of Turkish students a decade ago, today students from any part of the world are brought together within the frame of various student exchange programs. In Turkish EFL contexts, students…
Descriptors: Native Language, Interference (Language), Error Analysis (Language), Cultural Pluralism
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Agçam, Reyhan; Bulut, Adem – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The current study investigated whether monolingual adult speakers of Turkish and bilingual adult speakers of Arabic and Turkish significantly differ regarding their spoken productions in Turkish. Accordingly, two groups of undergraduate students studying Turkish Language and Literature at a state university in Turkey were presented two videos on a…
Descriptors: Turkish, Bilingualism, Adults, Native Language
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