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Solorza, Cristian R. – Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 2019
Ofelia García calls for a re-imagining of bilingual education by challenging how teachers conceptualize, facilitate, and listen to language use in classrooms. Educators attempt to legitimize students' authentic, fluid, and dynamic language practices through translanguaging, but "non-standard" named language varieties are still…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Code Switching (Language), Language Attitudes, Standard Spoken Usage
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Daidone, Danielle – Hispania, 2019
This study compares Spanish instructors' use of preterite and imperfect in the foreign language classroom to the distribution of these forms in large-scale corpora, which represent the input learners would potentially receive in a naturalistic learning context. Twenty-four 50-minute class sessions were recorded, and all tokens of preterite and…
Descriptors: Grammar, Verbs, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Ocal, Turkan; Ehri, Linnea C. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
Studies have shown that children benefit from a spelling pronunciation strategy in remembering the spellings of words. The current study determined whether this strategy also helps adults learn to spell commonly misspelled words. Participants were native English speaking college students (N = 42), mean age 22.5 years (SD = 7.87). An experimental…
Descriptors: Spelling, Pronunciation, Learning Strategies, Native Language
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Azaz, Mahmoud – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
This study examined to what extent English-speaking learners of Arabic demonstrated varied metalinguistic knowledge of a salient feature (head-direction) vs. an unsalient feature (definiteness) in the Arabic construct state. In addition, it examined whether this knowledge was utilized in form-focused task performance. In the target construction,…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Morphemes
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Tieu, Lyn; Lidz, Jeffrey – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2016
This article presents a study of preschool-aged children's knowledge of the semantics of the negative polarity item (NPI) "any". NPIs like "any" differ in distribution from non-polarity-sensitive indefinites like "a": "Any" is restricted to downward-entailing linguistic environments (Fauconnier 1975, 1979;…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children, Comparative Analysis
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Fumero, Keisey; Tibi, Sana – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: This clinical focus article will highlight the importance and role of morphological awareness (MA) across orthographies, in particular, the role it plays in reading development, specifically with bilingual populations. MA supports reading acquisition and development beyond other predictors of reading, such as phonological awareness,…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Intervention, Bilingualism
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Lucas, Matt – Language Awareness, 2020
The present study investigated the interface between explicit instruction and computer-assisted language learning (CALL) in an effort to reduce plural marking errors among Japanese EFL learners. The instruction involved raising contrastive awareness of cross-linguistic and conceptual features, and was delivered via an online medium. A total of 180…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Hiebert, Elfrieda H.; Scott, Judith A.; Castaneda, Ruben; Spichtig, Alexandra – Education Sciences, 2019
The two studies reported on in this paper examine the features of words that distinguish students' performances on vocabulary assessments as a means of understanding what contributes to the ease or difficulty of vocabulary knowledge. The two studies differ in the type of assessment, the types of words that were studied, and the grade levels and…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, English Language Learners, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
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Dashti, Fatimah; Dashti, Abdulmohsen A. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
The influx of English borrowed items into Kuwait has recently considerably increased, driven by both linguistic and extra-linguistic factors, mainly through new electronic media, and direct contact with the donor language. Kuwaitis, especially, the new generation heavily make use of English loanwords in mobile devices applications such as Twitter,…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Usage
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Lee, Albert; Mok, Peggy – Second Language Research, 2018
This article explores the acquisition of Japanese vowel and consonant quantity contrasts by Cantonese learners. Our goal is to examine whether transfer from first language (L1) is possible when L1 experience is phonemic but restricted to a small set of sounds (short vs. long vowels) and when the experience is non-phonemic, derived only at morpheme…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Sino Tibetan Languages
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Boersma, Tiffany; Baker, Anne; Rispens, Judith; Weerman, Fred – First Language, 2018
Morphophonological processing involves the phonological analysis of morphemes. Item-specific phonological characteristics have been shown to influence morphophonological skills in children. This study investigates the relative contributions of broad phonological skills and vocabulary to production and judgement accuracies of the Dutch past tense…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Morphemes, Phonology, Language Processing
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Song, Yoonsang – Language Learning, 2015
This study investigates (1) whether late second language (L2) learners can attain native-like knowledge of English plural inflection even when their first language (L1) lacks an equivalent and (2) whether they construct hierarchically structured representations during online sentence processing like native speakers. In a self-paced reading task,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Error Correction, Native Language
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Salem, Essa; Jarrah, Marwan; Alrashdan, Imran – SAGE Open, 2020
The present study examines the use of English lexical insertions to create humor by Jordanian university students. The data of the study are collected from spontaneous tape-recorded conversations from 62 participants of both males and females, representing different age groups (from 18-23 years old) and belonging to different specializations…
Descriptors: Humor, Language Usage, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Yusoff, Yuniza Mohd; Salehuddin, Khazriyati; Abdullah, Imran Ho; Toran, Hasnah – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2019
Purpose: The inclusion of an increasing number of high-functioning ASD children in mainstream classrooms demands for adequate awareness of autism and effective teaching methods from teachers to ensure that learning takes places efficiently. Hence, this study investigated the atypical language performance of a high-functioning Malay girl with…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Speech Communication
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Lucas, Matthew Wycliffe; Yiakoumetti, Androula – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
In our globalised world, the desire for the acquisition of English has led to increased research into the appropriate pedagogical approaches for learning and teaching the language. This manuscript focuses on the use of learners' mother tongue in the learning and teaching of English in an effort to identify ways in which cross-linguistic…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Universities
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