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Bielak, Jakub; Pawlak, Mirosuaw – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2011
Form-focused instruction is usually based on traditional practical/pedagogical grammar descriptions of grammatical features. The comparison of such traditional accounts with cognitive grammar (CG) descriptions seems to favor CG as a basis of pedagogical rules. This is due to the insistence of CG on the meaningfulness of grammar and its detailed…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Grammar, Morphemes
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Pfenninger, Simone E. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2011
This study examines evidence for the hypothesis (e.g., Muñoz, 2006) that an early starting age is not necessarily more beneficial to the successful learning of L2 inflectional morphology in strictly formal instructional settings. The present author investigated the quantitative and qualitative differences in the production and reception of 5…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Second Language Learning, Morphology (Languages), English (Second Language)
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Ganem-Gutierrez, Gabriela Adela; Harun, Haliza – Language Awareness, 2011
According to Vygotsky, we use tools both to shape and make sense of the world and to exercise control over others and over ourselves. Importantly, the very use of those tools to mediate and regulate our actions has developmental repercussions in our cognitive capabilities. From a sociocultural theory perspective on second language learning, these…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Second Language Learning, Morphemes, Sociocultural Patterns
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Hayashi, Yuko; Murphy, Victoria – Language Learning Journal, 2011
Developing morphological awareness (MA) is an essential component of vocabulary growth, given that it can contribute to enhanced depth of vocabulary knowledge and provides a pathway to deeper associations with more members of a word family. Despite the considerable body of vocabulary research, specific relationships between different aspects of MA…
Descriptors: Semantics, Second Language Learning, Metalinguistics, Vocabulary Development
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Garcia Mayo, Maria del Pilar; Villarreal Olaizola, Izaskun – Second Language Research, 2011
This article examines the third language (L3) developing morphology of 78 Basque-Spanish bilinguals following a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) program and a mainstream English as a foreign language (non-CLIL) program. The analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal oral data shows that (1) the omission of inflection in the L3…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Language Proficiency, Spanish, Uncommonly Taught Languages
Li, Ming-Ching – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This longitudinal study examines the acquisition of tense and agreement morphology by child L2 learners in an early stage of language acquisition. The objectives of this study are twofold. The first is to observe the development of verb inflections and syntactic competence over time from an early stage by Chinese child L2 learners of English. The…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Chinese, English (Second Language), Morphemes
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Chung, Stephanie F. – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2012
A major reading-achievement gap exists between English language learners and English-only students. In order for ELLs to experience school success, they must achieve English language proficiency. This article presents why vocabulary acquisition plays the most vital role in ELLs' learning of the English language. Factors include the severity and…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
Seymour, Kendra Chanti Nicolette – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation examines the Imperfective aspectual system of urban Bahamian Creole English (BahE), a mesolectal creole spoken in The Bahamas. Specifically, following Comrie (1976) I examine three Imperfective aspectual categories in the creole--continuous progressiveness (variable auxiliary "be" use with V- "ing" verbs and…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Creoles, Verbs, English
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Lee, Yoonhyoung; Nam, Kichun; Gordon, Peter C. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2009
Korean writing is a syllabary where spaces occur between phrases rather than between words. This characteristic of Korean allows different types of information in Korean sentences to be dissociated in ways that are not possible in the languages that have been the focus of most psycholinguistic research, thereby providing new opportunities to…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Processing, Korean, Morphology (Languages)
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Jarvikivi, Juhani; Pyykkonen, Pirita; Niemi, Jussi – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
The authors compared sublexical and supralexical approaches to morphological processing with unambiguous and ambiguous inflected words and words with ambiguous stems in 3 masked and unmasked priming experiments in Finnish. Experiment 1 showed equal facilitation for all prime types with a short 60-ms stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) but significant…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Figurative Language, Language Processing, Comparative Analysis
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Li, Li-Juan; Ge, Guang-Chun – English for Specific Purposes, 2009
This paper reports a corpus-based genre analysis of the structural and linguistic evolution of medical research articles (RAs) written in English. Towards that end, we analyzed the frequency of occurrence of the 11 moves identified by Nwogu (1997), of the three most frequently used verb tenses (simple past, simple present and present perfect) and…
Descriptors: Medical Research, Verbs, Morphemes, Linguistics
Al-Kulaib, Emad Mohammed – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study is an investigation of the acquisition of existential constructions (ECs) in English and in Spoken Arabic. It is the first of its kind in that it examines the acquisition of the pieces and the features that form ECs; namely, existential "there," the copula, definiteness, and agreement for English and existential "fii," definiteness,…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Verbs, Word Order, English
Wang, Chyan-an Arthur – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The dissertation examines the resultatives in Mandarin Chinese (henceforth Mandarin) and Taiwanese Southern Min (henceforth Taiwanese), a notoriously difficult construction that has drawn extensive attention in the literature. With a microparametric approach, I offer a syntactic analysis for two kinds of resultatives, phrasal resultatives and…
Descriptors: Verbs, Syntax, Figurative Language, Phrase Structure
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King-Sears, Margaret E.; Duke, Jodi M. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2010
It is important for special educators to have a strong repertoire of diagnostic methods to determine how well students with high-incidence disabilities are accessing, reading, and remembering content from textbooks used in their middle and high school classes. Suggestions for using the diagnostic information to guide specialized instruction…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Incidence, Disabilities, Special Education Teachers
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Walenski, Matthew; Weickert, Thomas W.; Maloof, Christopher J.; Ullman, Michael T. – Neuropsychologia, 2010
Patients with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia commonly present with impaired language. Here we investigate language in schizophrenia with a focus on inflectional morphology, using an intensively studied and relatively well-understood linguistic paradigm. Patients with schizophrenia (n = 43) and age-matched healthy control subjects (n =…
Descriptors: Verbs, Schizophrenia, Morphemes, Grammar
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