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Turner, Joan – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2003
In this paper, I argue that it is important to bring proficiency in written English language into the frame of a critical pedagogy for academic literacy. This may at first seem a counter-intuitive goal with connotations of constraint and convergence rather than opening up and diversity. However, what is often not taken into account in the notion…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Psychiatry, Norms, English (Second Language)
Crawford, Jane – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2004
Second language acquisition research has led to a major emphasis on the need for learners to experience the target language (TL) in use if they themselves are to become users of the language. At the same time, there is discussion of the role of the first language (L 1) as a tool in the processing of language/culture experiences. Achieving optimal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Acquisition, Language of Instruction
Crompton, Peter – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2005
This paper analyses the use of the word "where" in texts written by Malay-speaking learners of English. Data from a learner corpus is compared with data from two corpora of academic writing by native English-speaker writers. Considerable over-use of "where" is found: this is explained as a consequence of various patterns of misuse of "where" and…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Error Analysis (Language), English (Second Language)
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Duquette, Cheryll – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2003
The purpose of this study was to examine the learning outcomes of students who had recently completed a two-year community-based Native Teacher Education Program (NTEP). The participants were 22 graduates of an NTEP who responded to open-ended items in a questionnaire on what they had learned throughout the program. Four women also participated in…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Student Teacher Attitudes, Focus Groups, Questionnaires
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MacSwan, Jeff; Pray, Lisa – Bilingual Research Journal, 2005
This article asks whether children enrolled in a bilingual education program learn English in a reasonable amount of time, and whether older children learn English faster than younger children. Children (N = 89) were found to achieve parity with native English speakers in a range of 1 to 6.5 years and in an average of 3.31 years on measures of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), Elementary School Students
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Golombek, Paula; Jordan, Stefanie Rehn – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2005
How do international speakers of English assert their identities as legitimate teachers of English given the privileged position of the native speaker? To answer this question, we present case studies of two students from Taiwan in their first year of study in a 2-year master of arts in TESOL (MATESOL) program. The data included interviews after…
Descriptors: Masters Degrees, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teacher Education
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Gabrys-Barker, Danuta – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2006
The present study looks at the levels of activation of different languages a trilingual language user operates in at the moment of text construction in one of these languages. Forty-eight Portuguese advanced users of English (L2) and intermediate in German (L3) were asked to perform a translation task. The subjects were divided into two subgroups:…
Descriptors: Translation, Multilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Language Proficiency
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Larson-Hall, Jenifer – Language and Speech, 2006
This study tested the issue of whether extended length of residence (LOR) in adulthood can provide sufficient input to overcome age effects. The study replicates Flege, Takagi, and Mann (1995), which found that 10 out of 12 Japanese learners of English with extensive residence (12 years or more) produced liquids as accurately as native speakers of…
Descriptors: Sentences, Age, Second Languages, Native Speakers
Chern, Chiou-lan – 1994
This study tested the hypothesis that more proficient language learners are more aware of the strategies they use in reading. Subjects were 28 native speakers of Mandarin Chinese who learned English as a Second Language (ESL). All were university students; experienced readers were recruited from among fourth-year English majors and inexperienced…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Seniors, College Students, Context Clues
Payne, David, Ed. – Notes on Linguistics, 1996
The four 1996 issues of this journal contain the following articles: "Sketch of Autosegmental Tonology" (H. Andrew Black); "System Relationships in Assessing Dialect Intelligibility" (Margaret Milliken, Stuart Milliken); "A Step-by-Step Introduction to Government and Binding Theory of Syntax" (Cheryl A. Black);…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Computer Software, Conferences, Dialects
Li, Jiang – 1996
A discussion of second language learning and second language underproduction proposes a differentiation between conscious avoidance and subconscious underproduction Reference is made to J. Schacter's avoidance theory, which was based on a study in which Chinese and Japanese students of English as a Second Language (ESL) produced fewer Relative…
Descriptors: Chinese, Communication Apprehension, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
Hinkel, Eli – 1994
A group of university students consisting of native speakers of Chinese (n=63), Japanese (n=33), Korean (n=21), Indonesian (n=20), and Arabic (n=13) with relatively extensive exposure to the American university environment and a control group of 20 native English-speakers were asked to rank the social appropriateness of 104 conversation topics.…
Descriptors: Arabic, Chinese, College Students, Comparative Analysis
O'Sullivan, Barry; Porter, Don – 1996
This study investigated: (1) whether there is a gender effect in the speech of Japanese learners of English as a Second Language; (2) whether the effect is positive if the interlocutor is female; (3) whether there are associations of gender effect with specific features of speech; and (4) in which linguistic features of learner speech the gender…
Descriptors: College Students, English, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Nelson, Dana Kristine – 1992
A study analyzed the characteristics of one male physician's foreigner talk over the telephone with non-native speakers (NNSs) of English and compared it to that of native speakers (NSs). The conversations all related to requests that patients come into the office for a periodic, preventative physical exam. Data came from tape recordings of the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, English, English (Second Language)
Moragne e Silva, Michele – 1992
A case study investigated the writing processes of an adult native speaker of Portuguese in a number of writing tasks in his native language (L1) and in English, his second language (L2). Writing samples over a 14-month period were examined. Most data were collected in thinking aloud protocols for 10 written tasks of varying degrees of familiarity…
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language)
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