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Hsu, Lucy Shih-Ju; Ip, Ka I.; Arredondo, Maria M.; Tardif, Twila; Kovelman, Ioulia – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
The developmental process of reading acquisition is frequently conceptualized as a self-organizing mental network consisting of lexico-semantic, phonological and orthographical components. The developmental nature of this network varies across languages and is known to impact second-language learners of typologically different languages. Yet, it…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
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Hirakawa, Makiko; Shibuya, Mayumi; Endo, Marie – Language Teaching Research, 2019
This article explores what kind of second language (L2) input influences Japanese learners' acquisition of adjective ordering restrictions (AOR) in English where Japanese exhibits no AOR. In Study I, an explicit instruction (EI) group (n = 13) and a natural exposure (NE) group (n = 12) responded to a preference task. In Study II, an input flood…
Descriptors: Japanese, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Hendriks, Henriette; Hickmann, Maya – Modern Language Journal, 2015
Languages vary considerably in how they represent motion. One major source of variation (Talmy, 2000) depends on whether linguistic systems lexicalize path in the verb (verb-framed languages) or in satellites (satellite-framed languages). This typological difference involves more than different verb types in that it also affects elements outside…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, French, Language Classification, English
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Schepens, Job J.; der Slik, Frans; Hout, Roeland – Language Learning, 2016
Many people speak more than two languages. How do languages acquired earlier affect the learnability of additional languages? We show that linguistic distances between speakers' first (L1) and second (L2) languages and their third (L3) language play a role. Larger distances from the L1 to the L3 and from the L2 to the L3 correlate with lower…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Morphology (Languages), Correlation
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Geçkin, Vasfiye – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2022
Variability in the form of article (i.e., a and the) omissions and stressing has been attributed to a mismatch between first (L1) and second language (L2) prosodic and syntactic structures. An overlap between the L1 and L2 systems, on the other hand, is expected to contribute to native-like article productions. This case study aims to explore the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Form Classes (Languages), Syntax
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Marks, Rebecca A.; Sun, Xin; McAlister López, Eva; Nickerson, Nia; Hernandez, Isabel; Caruso, Valeria C.; Satterfield, Teresa; Kovelman, Ioulia – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study aimed to clarify the relations between morphological awareness and literacy skills in Spanish and English in young simultaneous bilingual learners. Guided by theoretical perspectives on the associations between morphological awareness and word- versus sentence-level literacy skills, and their transfer between bilinguals' two languages,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Morphology (Languages), Bilingualism, English (Second Language)
Andrea A. Takahesu Tabori – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In this dissertation, I investigated how cognitive resources as well as formal, and informal language experience impact language learning in two studies. In the first study (Chapter 2), I examined the learning of Spanish grammatical gender by Chinese international students who were studying abroad in the US. The goal of that study was to uncover…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Spanish
Suleiman, Mahmoud – Online Submission, 2014
The growing diversity in schools dictates alternative approaches to meeting the need of all students. In particular, the changing demographics coupled with the increase in linguistically diverse student populations pose a challenge for teachers and educators alike. Thus, teacher education programs must integrate necessary ingredients to prepare…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Literacy, Student Diversity, Language
Petryshyn, Ivan – Online Submission, 2015
Purpose: To present the first complete Guide for studying the Western-Ukrainian Dialect and its scientific description of Phonology. Methodology: descriptive, contrastive and analytical methods of defining the peculiarities of the Dialect. Results: the regularities and the laws have been defined as to the specifics of the Western-Ukrainian Dialect…
Descriptors: Ukrainian, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialects, Phonology
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Muñoz, Carmen; Cadierno, Teresa; Casas, Isabel – Language Learning, 2018
This study compared receptive English grammar skills of two groups of 7- and 9-year-old Danish children at the beginning of second language (L2) instruction in English, and two groups of Spanish/Catalan children of the same age after several years of instruction. The study examined the influence of two language-related factors (receptive…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Receptive Language, Grammar
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Chaleila, Wisam; Khalaila, Basem – English Language Teaching, 2020
While recent literature has focused extensively on the widely embraced approach of explicit instruction, there is a considerable paucity of research concerning plausible practical frameworks that can demonstrate how such particular approach is implementable in EFL classes. To address the specific writing deficiencies of EFL students, the current…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Academic Language
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Garcia, Rowena; Roeser, Jens; Höhle, Barbara – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2019
It is a common finding across languages that young children have problems in understanding patient-initial sentences. We used Tagalog, a verb-initial language with a reliable voice-marking system and highly frequent patient voice constructions, to test the predictions of several accounts that have been proposed to explain this difficulty: the…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Tagalog, Cues, Morphology (Languages)
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Gogate, Lakshmi; Maganti, Madhavilatha – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: This experiment examined English- or Spanish-learning preverbal (8-9 months, n = 32) and postverbal (12-14 months, n = 40) infants' learning of word-action pairings prior to and after the transition to verb comprehension and its relation to naturally learned vocabulary. Method: Infants of both verbal levels were first habituated to 2…
Descriptors: Verbs, Infants, Language Acquisition, English
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Mitkovska, Liljana; Bužarovska, Eleni – Second Language Research, 2018
This article investigates phenomena related to subject pronoun realization in the English interlanguage of Macedonian learners. Preliminary research indicates that learners tend to omit the subject pronoun in both referential and non-referential contexts. It can be presumed that such interlanguage features are due to crosslinguistic influence,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar
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Ijioma, Ngozi Patricia; Ezeafulukwe, Olivia – African Educational Research Journal, 2015
Translating a text from one language to another poses problems to the translator. The task becomes more enormous when translating from a well developed language to a developing one. It even becomes more complex when dealing with a technical text. While the English language belongs to the Anglo-Saxon group, Igbo language belongs to the Congo Basin.…
Descriptors: African Languages, Translation, Second Languages, Languages for Special Purposes
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