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The Acquisition of English stops by Saudi L2 Learners
… have studied voice onset time (VOT) in a number of languages but there is a scarcity of research on the acquisition of VOT of English, particularly by adult Saudi learners, and on the VOT of Saudi Arabic. The current study aims to fill these gaps. At the same time, we aimed to assess whether key …
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Acquisition of English morphosyntax : evidence from a Chinese-speaking child
This thesis aims to examine the development of morphosyntax with longitudinal English production from Diany, a Mandarin-speaking child, starting from the second week Diany arrived in the U.S.A. (age 4;9). The study is particularly interested in whether Diany’s acquisition of verbal morphemes and …
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The Acquisition of English Sentential Complementation by Adult Speakers of Finnish
… reported on here was an investigation into the acquisition of English sentential complementation by adult native speakers of Finnish. A written test consisting of six production tasks and a small comprehension section was administered to forty-three Finnish students studying English at the …
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Universal Grammar Parameter-Setting Model Revisited: Korean Learners' Acquisition of English Anaphora
Under the rubric of Universal Grammar, researchers have attempted to use the Parameter-Setting Model to explain the intricate nature of adult second language acquisition. This dissertation investigates the validity of applying the Subset Principle in second language contexts by examining Korean …
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The Acquisition of English Restrictive Relative Clauses by Native Speakers of Persian
… ability in processing different types of English restrictive relative clauses. A comprehension experiment with 50 Iranians was conducted to search for the universal linguistic factors responsible for the ease or difficulty of these sentences. Three hypotheses were …
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The Acquisition of English Restrictive Relative Clauses by Native Speakers of Arabic
… in DSpace on 2014-12-13T19:12:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7913490.pdf: 4348804 bytes, checksum: 08220989b6e56e7018b48a1454433d36 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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Spanish-Speaking Learners' Acquisition of English VPE and WH-Extraction Out of VPE
<p>The general goal of this dissertation is to explore two decades-long second language (L2) acquisition issues: whether and to what extent the L2 learner's first language (L1) and Universal Grammar (UG) respectively play a role in L2 development. Targeting English verb phrase ellipsis (VPE) and …
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Effects of input-and output-based instruction on the acquisition of English articles
… present study aims to explore the effectiveness of input- and output-based instruction on the acquisition of English articles regarding definiteness and genericity. For this study, 21 participants were recruited from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, including 15 second-language …
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Discourse-level instruction on the acquisition of English present perfect in academic writing
… study investigated the relative effects of discourse-level instruction on the use of English present perfect (PP) in relation to other semantically neighboring tense-aspect forms. While PP is frequently used to discuss previous literature or introduce a research trend in academic writing …
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The Acquisition of English Sentential Complementation by Adult Native Speakers of Puerto Rican Spanish
… in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:54:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7708918.pdf: 3741143 bytes, checksum: 077efb138b18b52c14c58d0be16b8311 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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Leveraging the L1: the role of EAL learners' first language in their acquisition of English vocabulary
… pupils in England are classified as having English as an additional language (EAL), meaning that they routinely use, or are exposed to, languages other than English. It is commonly thought that EAL learners’ first languages (L1s) can be leveraged to positively impact their linguistic and …
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Researching the effects of reading for pleasure in English on adult esl learners' acquisition of English
Many experts in the field of second language acquisition believe that reading for pleasure in a second language facilitates learning of that language, that it may be even more valuable to the learner than direct instruction. Little empirical evidence exits, however, to imply the effectiveness of …
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The impact of language of instructuion and gender on the acquisition of English as a second language
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Acquisition of English by Additional Language Learners in Inquiry-Based Classrooms Within International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program Schools
… Primary Years Programme (PYP) schools provide English instruction to all students. The program has grown worldwide with a significant enrollment of students who speak a first language other than English, necessitating the need for an English as an Additional Language (EAL) curriculum. The IB’s …
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Intonation and second language acquisition : a study of the acquisition of English intonation by speakers of other languages
In the field of second language acquisition (SLA) research, the study of intonation, and prosodic systems generally, suffers from a considerable under-representation.This has far-reaching consequences. From the large body of empirical work on various aspects of SLA over the last three decades, a …
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The role of intercultural communicative competence in the acquisition of English as an Additional Language for Arab Learners: A hermeneutic phenomenological study
… Arab female newcomers’ lived experiences in an English as an Additional Language (EAL) program and their acquisition of intercultural communicative competence. Two in-depth semi structured interviews were conducted with seven students enrolled in the Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada …
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