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Man-Ni Chu; Ewa Zajdler; Hui-Wen Lin – AILA Review, 2023
This study considers the performance of tone pronunciation and morpheme intelligibility by L2 Polish Mandarin learners. A mixed-effects ordinal regression model and Tukey's HSD multiple test were used to examine the start-point, end-point, of syllables as a means of assessing their intelligibility by L2 Polish learners regarding the tones with the…
Descriptors: Polish, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Speech Communication
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Sihui Ke; Xuehong He; Guihua Zhao – SAGE Open, 2024
It is generally agreed that first language (L1) morphological awareness, the ability to reflect upon, analyze and manipulate morphemes and morphological structure of words, can transfer and facilitate second language (L2) reading subskill acquisition. However, the facilitative role of L1 morphological awareness is unclear in the literature…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Wu, Zhaohong; Juffs, Alan – Second Language Research, 2022
Previous studies on bilingual children have shown a significant correlation between first language (L1) and second language (L2) morphological awareness and a unique contribution of morphological awareness in one language to reading performance in the other language, suggesting cross-linguistic influence. However, few studies have compared…
Descriptors: Native Language, Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Correlation
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Chutinan Noobutra – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
The present study investigates whether or not Thai students' English writing skills can be improved by using an online grammar checker. First, typical syntactic errors made by undergraduate students majoring in English and English for Careers were examined. Secondly, possible reasons for syntactic errors in English writing in the light of Lado's…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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White, Michelle Jennifer; Southwood, Frenette; Huddlestone, Kate – First Language, 2023
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language that originated in South Africa as a descendent of Dutch. It displays discontinuous sentential negation (SN), where negation is expressed by two phonologically identical negative particles that appear in two different positions in the sentence. The negation system is argued to be an innovation that came about…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Language Acquisition, Indo European Languages, Standard Spoken Usage
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Diaubalick, Tim; Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2019
One of the most intriguing questions in the investigation of second-language acquisition concerns the role of learners' first language (L1). Comparing learners of different backgrounds (L1 German vs. L1 Romance languages), we aim to explore the acquisition of tense and aspect features in Spanish as a second language (L2). Findings show that the L1…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Morphemes, German
Shaohua Fang – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Scope ambiguity arises when a sentence contains scope-bearing logical operators like quantifiers and negation (Fox, 2003). For instance, in English, the sentence 'Every horse didn't jump over the fence' can be interpreted as either 'None of the horses jumped over the fence' (surface scope) or 'Not all of the horses jumped over the fence' (inverse…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
Markovits Rojas, Jennifer Rosanna – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Study 1: The present work examined the connection between language and conceptual development, investigating whether false-belief reasoning (FBR) and source-monitoring ability (SMA) abilities within the theory of mind (ToM) framework constrained the comprehension of semantic and pragmatic knowledge (evidential scalar implicatures) encoded in the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, American Indian Languages, Theory of Mind, Foreign Countries
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Azaz, Mahmoud – Second Language Research, 2020
This article adopts the surface overlap and derivational complexity hypotheses to study crosslinguistic transfer in the adult second language (L2) acquisition of English genitive alternation (between the s-genitives and the of genitives) by intermediate and advanced Egyptian Arabic-speaking learners. While the "s"-genitive (e.g.…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Second Language Learning, Native Language, English (Second Language)
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Layes, Smail; Kaddouri, Amel; Lalonde, Robert; Rebai, Mohamed – Journal of International Special Needs Education, 2021
We examined the effects of a morphological awareness (MA) training program on the enhancement of word and pseudo-word reading and phonological awareness in Arabic-speaking children with dyslexia. We compared two groups of children with dyslexia from Grade 3, an experimental group (n = 12; mean age = 112.4 months) with a control group (n = 13; mean…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Comparative Analysis, Phonological Awareness
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Feng, Shuo – Second Language Research, 2022
The Interface Hypothesis proposes that second language (L2) learners, even at highly proficient levels, often fail to integrate information at the external interfaces where grammar interacts with other cognitive systems. While much early L2 work has focused on the syntax-discourse interface or scalar implicatures at the semantics-pragmatics…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Native Language, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Khademi, Hamidreza; Cardoso, Walcir – Research-publishing.net, 2022
This article, based on Khademi's (2021) Master's thesis, examines the use of Google Translate (GT) and its speech capabilities, Text-to-Speech Synthesis (TTS) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), in helping L2 learners acquire the pronunciation of English past -ed allomorphy (/t/, /d/, /id/) in a semi-autonomous context, considering three…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Translation, Computer Software
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French, Leif M.; Beaulieu, Suzie – Language Awareness, 2020
Research has pointed to the importance of introducing social aspects of language at the beginning stages of second language (L2) acquisition (Yates, 2017). This proof-of-concept study therefore sought to determine if an explicit pedagogical intervention consisting of various types of sociolinguistic awareness activities could be implemented with…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Morphemes
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Judy, Tiffany; Puig-Mayenco, Eloi; Chaouch-Orozco, Adel; Martín-Villena, Fernando; Miller, David – Second Language Research, 2023
This study tests the Competing Systems Hypothesis (CSH) as applied to adult second language acquisition of aspect in Spanish. The CSH purports that differences among tutored and untutored learners result from competition between one system of underlying grammatical knowledge and another of learned metalinguistic knowledge in tutored learners…
Descriptors: English, Native Language, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Calzada, Asier; García Mayo, María del Pilar – Language Awareness, 2021
Collaborative writing tasks have been claimed to offer language learning opportunities because they implicitly draw learners' attention to form. Nevertheless, their efficacy has been claimed to be moderated by proficiency, as low proficiency learners tend to override form over meaning. These claims, however, are mostly based on adult learners and…
Descriptors: Grammar, Task Analysis, Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning
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