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Zareva, Alla – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2009
The analysis of circumstance adverbials in this paper was based on L1 and L2 corpora of student presentations, each of which consisting of approximately 30,000 words. The overall goal of the investigation was to identify specific functions L1 and L2 college students attributed to circumstance adverbials (the most frequently used adverbial class in…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, Computational Linguistics
Nakahama, Yuko – Modern Language Journal, 2009
This study investigates cross-linguistic influence (CLI)--also known as first language (L1) transfer--on referent introduction and tracking in oral narratives in Japanese as a second language (L2) within the framework of functional approaches to language learning. Narrative discourse produced by two groups of learners of Japanese, one whose L1 is…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Japanese, Second Language Learning, Transfer of Training
Baus, Cristina; Costa, Albert; Carreiras, Manuel – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
In three experiments, we explore the effects of phonological properties such as neighbourhood density and frequency on speech production in Spanish. Specifically, we assess the reliability of the recent observation made by Vitevitch and Stamer (2006), according to which the neighbourhood effect in Spanish has a reverse polarity to that observed in…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Speech, Oral Language, Native Speakers
Campbell, Lynne B.; Comenale, Rebecca – Learning Languages, 2013
GLASPORT first convened in October 2009 with funding provided by a Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) grant. The grant proposal was submitted by then Glastonbury Assistant Superintendent of Schools (and former Foreign Language Director) Christine Brown. The committee was charged with two ambitious objectives: (1) to aid in the development…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication, Second Language Learning, Grants
Sperbeck, Mieko – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The primary aim of this dissertation was to investigate the relationship between speech perception and speech production difficulties among Japanese second language (L2) learners of English, in their learning complex syllable structures. Japanese L2 learners and American English controls were tested in a categorical ABX discrimination task of…
Descriptors: Speech, Phonemes, Imitation, Auditory Perception
Gallego, Muriel – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The present study investigates whether three types of instruction (Focus on Meaning, Focus on FormS and Focus on Form instruction) have differential effects on the acquisition of the Spanish present subjunctive in complement/noun clauses. It seeks to establish whether "dictogloss", one of the proactive Focus on Form techniques, enhances the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Control Groups, Form Classes (Languages), Native Speakers
Lesaux, Nonie K.; Kieffer, Michael J. – American Educational Research Journal, 2010
This study explores the nature of reading comprehension difficulties among early adolescent language minority (LM) learners and native English speakers in urban schools. Sixth-grade students (399 LM learners, 182 native English speakers) were screened for difficulties, using a standardized measure of reading comprehension. Of these, 262 students…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Urban Schools, Reading Comprehension, Middle School Students
Hilton, Heather – CALICO Journal, 2009
This article presents the methodology adopted for transcribing and quantifying temporal fluency phenomena in a spoken L2 corpus (L2 English, French, and Italian by learners of different proficiency levels). The CHILDES suite is being used for transcription and analysis, and we have adapted the CHAT format in order to code disfluencies as precisely…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Language Fluency
Hayes-Harb, Rachel; Masuda, Kyoko – Second Language Research, 2008
Second language (L2) learners must often learn to perceive and produce novel L2 phoneme contrasts. Although both research and intuition suggest that these difficulties can be overcome to some extent with exposure to the L2, it is not known what consequences this kind of learning has for the phonological structure of the L2 lexicon. We present an…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Phonology, Second Language Learning, Dictionaries
Edmunds, Paul – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Non-native speakers of English often experience problems in pronunciation as they are learning English, many such problems persisting even when the speaker has achieved a high degree of fluency. Research has shown that for a non-native speaker to sound most natural and intelligible in his or her second language, the speaker must acquire proper…
Descriptors: Cues, Vowels, Acoustics, Native Speakers
Bunten, Bridget A. – Multicultural Education, 2010
In this article, the author investigates the experience of six preservice teachers who volunteered to work with English language learners (ELLs). For this project, the preservice teachers would meet with their students to conduct one-on-one interviews about their reading and writing, hold conferences with them, and share their own writing as well.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Russian
Derwing, Tracey M.; Munro, Murray J. – Language Teaching, 2010
Over the past few decades perspectives on second language (L2) pronunciation have evolved from pessimistic appraisals of the capabilities of L2 learners and doubts about the value of instruction to a view of pronunciation teaching as an effective and important part of language pedagogy. Earlier research on the teaching of pronunciation dwelt…
Descriptors: Social Status, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Instructional Effectiveness
Bao, Mingzhen – ProQuest LLC, 2008
Linguistic prominence is defined as words or syllables perceived auditorily as standing out from their environment. It is explored through changes in pitch, duration and loudness. In this study, phonetic realization and perception of prominence among lexical tones in Mandarin Chinese was investigated in two experiments. Experiment 1 explored…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Acoustics, Cues, Vowels
Van der Slik, Frans W. P. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2010
This study reports on the impact of 11 West European first languages on the acquisition of Dutch. Using data from nearly 6,000 second-language learners, it was found that the mother tongue had a rather large impact on two language skills--namely, oral and written proficiency--as measured by the scores received by these learners on the State…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Language Classification, Writing Skills
Iwasaki, Noriko – Foreign Language Annals, 2009
Stating and supporting opinions are important speech acts for language learners to develop. This article examines how speakers of Japanese as their first language (L1) state and support their opinions. Performances of second language (L2) learners of Japanese were also examined to identify the language abilities that L2 learners may need to…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Form Classes (Languages), Interviews, Japanese