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Edmunds, Paul – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Non-native speakers of English often experience problems in pronunciation as they are learning English, many such problems persisting even when the speaker has achieved a high degree of fluency. Research has shown that for a non-native speaker to sound most natural and intelligible in his or her second language, the speaker must acquire proper…
Descriptors: Cues, Vowels, Acoustics, Native Speakers
Economidou-Kogetsidis, Maria – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2009
The aim of the study is to identify and interpret the exact aspects of Greek interlanguage modification which present deviations from native usage. As such, it is an investigation of Greek ESL university students' request modification and a comparison to British English native speakers. More specifically, it concentrates on the mitigating function…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Interlanguage, Native Speakers, Pragmatics
Salazar, Danica; Verdaguer, Isabel – International Journal of English Studies, 2009
The present study is a corpus-based analysis of a selection of polysemous lexical verbs used to express modality in student argumentative writing. Twenty-three lexical verbs were searched for in three 100,000-word corpora of argumentative essays written in English by American, Filipino and Spanish university students. Concordance lines were…
Descriptors: Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Persuasive Discourse
Webb, Stuart; Kagimoto, Eve – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2009
This study investigates the effects of receptive and productive vocabulary tasks on learning collocation and meaning. Japanese English as a foreign language students learned target words in three glossed sentences and in a cloze task. To determine the effects of the treatments, four tests were used to measure receptive and productive knowledge of…
Descriptors: Sentences, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Receptive Language
Rubdy, Rani – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2009
This article examines three critical issues relating to the role of culture in teaching English as an international language (EIL): Firstly, the way in which top-down processes of globalisation, accompanied by the widespread desire for English in many former colonial countries, have in general fostered the negative effects of dominance,…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Saraceni, Mario – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2009
The worldwide spread of English has recently received much interest. Issues relating to the multifaceted roles of English around the world have been highlighted and purist positions about English challenged. In particular (a) the assumption that British English is the only valid standard of English; and (b) the notion that the "native speaker" is…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Models, Acculturation, Native Speakers
Lee, Sang-Ki – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2009
Because human memory is largely reconstructive, people tend to reorganize and reevaluate an event in a way that is coherent to the truth values held in their belief system. This study investigated the role of topic congruence (defined as whether the reading content corresponds with readers' prior beliefs towards a contentious topic) in second…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Death, Multivariate Analysis
Wulff, Stefanie; Ellis, Nick C.; Romer, Ute; Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen; Leblanc, Chelsea J. – Modern Language Journal, 2009
The aspect hypothesis (Andersen & Shirai, 1994) proposes that language learners are initially influenced by the inherent semantic aspect in the acquisition of tense and aspect (TA) morphology. Perfective past emerges earlier with accomplishments and achievements and progressive with activities. Although this hypothesis has been extensively…
Descriptors: Semantics, Morphemes, Second Language Learning, Adult Learning
Kujalowicz, Agnieszka; Zajdler, Ewa – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2009
Many offline studies on third language acquisition suggest strong connections between speakers' L3 and L2 rather than between their L3 and L1, especially if the foreign languages are typologically related (Cenoz, Hufeisen, & Jessner, 2001; Singleton, 2001). However, a recent online study investigating trilingual processing did not provide evidence…
Descriptors: Nouns, Translation, Interference (Language), Learning Experience
Chang, Yuh-Fang – Language Sciences, 2009
The purpose of the present study is to investigate pragmatic transfer in refusals by native speakers of Mandarin speaking English, and to what extent transfer is influenced by the learners' level of L2 proficiency. The elicitation instrument used for data collection was the discourse completion questionnaire developed by Beebe et al. [Beebe, L.,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Cultural Differences, Mandarin Chinese, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Durrant, Philip; Schmitt, Norbert – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2009
Usage-based models claim that first language learning is based on the frequency-based analysis of memorised phrases. It is not clear though, whether adult second language learning works in the same way. It has been claimed that non-native language lacks idiomatic formulas, suggesting that learners neglect phrases, focusing instead on orthographic…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Language Usage
Yokoyama, Satoru; Watanabe, Jobu; Iwata, Kazuki; Ikuta, Naho; Haji, Tomoki; Usui, Nobuo; Taira, Masato; Miyamoto, Tadao; Nakamura, Wataru; Sato, Shigeru; Horie, Kaoru; Kawashima, Ryuta – Neuropsychologia, 2007
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate whether activation in Broca's area is greater during the processing of passive versus active sentences in the brains of healthy subjects. Twenty Japanese native speakers performed a visual sentence comprehension task in which they were asked to read a visually presented sentence…
Descriptors: Brain, Sentences, Japanese, Native Speakers
Pitkanen, Ilona – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The research presented in this dissertation examined changes in brain activity associated with learning, forgetting and using a second language. The first experiment investigated the changes that occur when novice adult second language learners acquire and forget second language words. Event-related brain potentials were measured while native…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Correlation, Vowels, Grammar
Malkin, Fran – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines the effects of service learning experiences on participants' attitudes towards the Spanish language and culture and their language proficiency. It was hypothesized that using the Spanish language outside the confines of the academic environment would affect participants' attitudes and have an impact on their language…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Service Learning
Gressang, Jane E. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Second language (L2) learners notoriously have trouble using articles in their target languages (e.g., "a", "an", "the" in English). However, researchers disagree about the patterns and causes of these errors. Past studies have found that L2 English learners: (1) Predominantly omit articles (White 2003, Robertson 2000), (2) Overuse "the" (Huebner…
Descriptors: Semantics, Nouns, Morphemes, Second Language Learning