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Kowalski, Alix; Huang, Yi Ting – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
Relative-clause sentences (RCs) have been a key test case for psycholinguistic models of comprehension. While object-relative clauses (e.g., ORCs: "The bear that 'the horse' . . .") are distinguished from subject-relative clauses (SRCs) after the second noun phrase (NP2; e.g., SRCs: "The bear that 'pushed' . . ."), role…
Descriptors: Cues, Verbal Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Sentences
Frimu, Rodica – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Subject-verb agreement constitutes a robust characteristic of French. However, especially at beginner and intermediate levels, second language (L2) learners might substitute or fail to recognize an infinitive for a conjugated verb, or a 3rd person singular form for a plural form, as "Les enfants mangera" (The children will eat--3rd…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Learning, Verbs, Form Classes (Languages)
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Livins, Katherine A.; Doumas, Leonidas A. A.; Spivey, Michael J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Although relational reasoning has been described as a process at the heart of human cognition, the exact character of relational representations remains an open debate. Symbolic-connectionist models of relational cognition suggest that relations are structured representations, but that they are ultimately grounded in feature sets; thus, they…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Spatial Ability, Prediction, Cues
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Staples, Shelley; Egbert, Jesse; Biber, Douglas; Gray, Bethany – Written Communication, 2016
Using the British Academic Written English corpus, this study focuses on the use of grammatical complexity features in university level texts written by first language (L1) English writers to demonstrate knowledge and perform other specialized tasks required of advanced academic writers. While the primary focus of the analysis is on writing…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Writing (Composition), Higher Education, Phrase Structure
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Larson, Brian N. – Written Communication, 2016
Some studies have found characteristics of written texts that vary with author gender, echoing popular beliefs about essential gender differences that are reinforced in popular works of some scholarly authors. This article reports a study examining texts (N = 193) written in the same genre--a legal memorandum--by women and men with similar…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Effect Size, Nonparametric Statistics, Statistical Analysis
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Florou, Katerina – Journal of Education and Learning, 2019
This paper describes a project developed within an ongoing study at the University of Athens. In our previous studies we analyzed the errors of Greek learners of Italian language, using Learner Corpora evidence and we retrieved useful information about their interlanguage and its interaction to the language learning process. In this study we…
Descriptors: Translation, Universities, Italian, Native Language
Solhi Andarab, Mehdi – Online Submission, 2019
The difficulty in learning vocabulary is a problem that lies in not anchoring the new items to relevant established entities in cognitive structure. Different categories of associations have been reported to aid facilitating vocabulary acquisition. Collocating vocabulary items is a type of association that is considered to be more efficient in…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Válková, Silvie; Korínková, Jana – Research-publishing.net, 2019
This paper sums up partial results of a long-term project aimed at determining specific needs in teaching advanced English students at the Institute of Foreign Languages of the Faculty of Education, Palacký University, where both authors have been teaching for more than 15 years. In our advanced English students, we have long observed a tendency…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Girgin, Ufuk – Online Submission, 2019
The current study aims to explore the perceptions of 55 Turkish EFL student teachers towards using corpus-based materials in English phrasal-prepositional verb learning. It also explores gender-based differences and similarities towards using such materials in the learning of English phrasal-prepositional verbs. To do so, the study adopted a mixed…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computational Linguistics
Mason, Sara Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This thesis examines whether native, heritage, and L2 speakers of Spanish engage a morphological layer of representation in the processing of inflected words, and whether they do so with both regularly- and irregularly-inflected words. Also examined is whether this tendency towards compositional (i.e. morphological rule-based) processing is…
Descriptors: Spanish, Morphology (Languages), Language Usage, Accuracy
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Chang, YiBoon – English Teaching, 2018
Developing small learner and native corpora, this case study examines how Korean L2 learners used six types of lexical collocations in L2 writing to address (a) the frequency and acceptability of learner collocations, (b) problematic constituents of deviant collocations, and (c) possible sources of the learner difficulties. The overall frequency…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Nouns, Verbs, Second Language Learning
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Amalia, Mustika; Subandowo, Dedy; Faliyanti, Eva; Thresia, Fenny – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2018
This research examines the interpersonal meaning in Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY)'s speech. This is based on the details of speech or writing to define an investigation. The object of this research is the used moods and modality types in interpersonal meaning of SBY's speech under the title "Toward Harmony among Civilizations" by Dr.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Long, Robert; Hatcho, Yui – English Language Teaching, 2018
This study focused on the grammatical accuracy of Japanese students who were learning English. The database for the errors came from the Japanese University Student Corpus (JUSC) comprising 61 transcripts containing 51,061 words. An inventory, containing 400 errors in context, was taken from this corpus. The first research question related to the…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Wright, Lisa; Pring, Tim; Ebbels, Susan – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2018
Background: Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) frequently have difficulties with word learning and understanding vocabulary. For these children, this can significantly impact on social interactions, daily activities and academic progress. Although there is literature providing a rationale for targeting word learning in such…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intervention, Vocabulary Development
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Wolfe, Christopher R.; Widmer, Colin L.; Torrese, Christine V.; Dandignac, Mitchell – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2018
We developed a method for using Coh-Metrix to automatically analyze tutorial dialogues. Coh-Metrix, a web-based tool for automatically evaluating text, is freely available to researchers. We applied the method to 190 tutorial dialogues between women and "BRCA Gist" from two experiments. "BRCA Gist" is an intelligent tutoring…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Risk, Cancer, Females
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