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Letter Coding Affects Movement Production in Word Writing: An English-Italian Cross-Linguistic Study
Kandel, Sonia; Peereman, Ronald; Ghimenton, Anna; Perret, Cyril – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
The present research is a cross-linguistic study indicating that the timing of motor production not only depends on the shape of a letter and the activation of its motor program but also on the way the orthographic representations encode the letters for spelling retrieval. English and Italian-speaking participants wrote cognate words (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Psychomotor Skills, Motor Reactions, Spelling
Gerencheal, Berhane; Mishra, Deepanjali – Online Submission, 2019
The beginning of the modern education and the introduction of the foreign languages in Ethiopia are the two faces of a single coin. And this paper mainly shows how and when foreign languages are introduced into Ethiopia following the footsteps of the introduction and expansion of modern education. It is done using secondary sources. It also gives…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Languages, English (Second Language)
Persici, Valentina; Morelli, Marika; Lavelli, Manuela; Florit, Elena; Guerzoni, Letizia; Cuda, Domenico; Yoshinaga-Itano, Christine; Majorano, Marinella – First Language, 2022
The present study aimed to investigate the communicative characteristics of children with cochlear implants (CIs) and their mothers in interaction, whether and how they differ from those of mother-child dyads with normal hearing, and whether mother and child influence each other over the first year after implantation. Eighteen Italian-speaking…
Descriptors: Mothers, Interaction, Infants, Toddlers
Pais Marden, Mariolina; Herrington, Jan – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
Effective employment of information and communication technology (ICT) in foreign language teaching and learning has become imperative as a means to support second language development when traditional face-to-face instruction and interaction is not possible. Using a design-based research approach and a theoretical framework that integrates…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Online Courses, Second Language Learning, Educational Technology
Maria Vittoria Lo Presti – European Journal of Education (EJED), 2020
Language teaching has undergone numerous changes as a result of COVID-19, and has adapted to the new scenario and digital tools. While the programs for university and language school courses have been modulated to the new teaching conditions, language courses aimed at obtaining certifications require the final exam to remain the same. The present…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, COVID-19, Pandemics, Distance Education
Francesco Romano; Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
This study investigated three key issues in heritage language (HL) research. Previous research shows HL speakers have an advantage on oral production tasks compared to L2 speakers who instead perform better on written tasks. Furthermore, both L2 and HL speakers are claimed to have a "yes-bias" towards retaining ungrammaticality in GJTs.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Heritage Education, Reaction Time, Second Language Learning
Carter, Aidan; Absalom, Matt – The EUROCALL Review, 2023
This article discusses a pilot project aimed at giving tertiary students a wider repertoire of resources to use in language learning, with a particular focus on Italian. This project responds to the exponential increase in and access to online data and the potential value such data represent for students studying additional languages at tertiary…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Riccardo Amorati – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Due to the 'global English bias' in the field of L2 motivation, many motivational constructs have been primarily investigated in relation to learners of English. One of these, international posture, has been recently found to hold some relevance to LOTE students. Despite this, no research has examined comparatively similarities and differences in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, College Students
Valentina Carbonara; Andrea Scibetta; Jacopo Torregrossa – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The present study investigates whether exposure to multilingual pedagogies enhances emergent bilingual children's narrative abilities. These abilities are among the most reliable indicators of children's literacy skills. We compare two groups of emergent bilingual children with migrant background attending the fourth and fifth grade of a public…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Educational Benefits, Native Language
Riccardo Amorati; Anna Quaglieri – Language Learning Journal, 2024
The instrumental motivations of learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) have been examined in detail, but there is a lack of studies exploring how they compare to those of learners of other languages (LOTEs). To address this gap, this study draws on a questionnaire (N = 312) and on semi-structured interviews (n = 20) and focuses on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Yali Liu; Louisa Buckingham – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The choice of language for publishing is a topic of particular significance for scholars of languages other than English (LOTE) due to the importance of publishing in the professional language for maintaining expertise in the written academic register of the respective language. While the multilingual ability of such scholars means they can…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Academic Language, Writing for Publication, Second Languages
Biniam Berhane Antonios; Senai W. Andemariam; Yonas Mesfun Asfaha – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Eritrea does not have one official language and there is experience in using multiple languages in official government communications, education, media and the legal system. Since Eritrean independence in May 1991, Eritrean laws have been promulgated in a mix of Arabic, English and Tigrinya: some are issued in these three languages; some are…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Laws
Lloyd-Smith, Anika; Gyllstad, Henrik; Kupisch, Tanja; Quaglia, Stefano – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This study examines cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in the acquisition of embedded "wh"-questions in L3 English in German-dominant heritage speakers (HSs) of Italian. Specifically, we investigate whether a higher proficiency in the heritage language Italian increases the potential for CLI from that language. To this end, 21 adult-aged…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Proficiency, German, Italian
Majorano, Marinella; Bastianello, Tamara; Morelli, Marika; Lavelli, Manuela – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Previous studies have demonstrated an effect of early vocal production on infants' speech processing and later vocabulary. This study focuses on the relationship between vocal production and new word learning. Thirty monolingual Italian-learning infants were recorded at about 11 months, to establish the extent of their consonant production. In…
Descriptors: Infants, Vocabulary Development, Language Processing, Correlation
Salvato, Giuliana – Language Awareness, 2020
This study addresses the role of the body in the pedagogy of Italian as a second language. Given that the understanding of meanings and functions of body movements in combination with speech can enrich language pedagogy, we organized a study to investigate whether context of learning determines more or less awareness of the body in Italian…
Descriptors: Human Body, Nonverbal Communication, Motion, Italian