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Learning opportunities and outcomes of L2-L2 and L2-HL learner interaction during a collaborative writing task
… research has focused almost exclusively on L2-L2 pairs, leaving aside the question of what happens when heritage language (HL) learners are involved. This dissertation examines not only the connection between learner-learner interaction and language learning, but also whether learner …
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Similarity in L2 Phonology
Adult second language (L2) learners often experience difficulty producing and perceiving non-native phonological contrasts. Even highly proficient bilinguals, who have been exposed to an L2 for long periods of time, struggle with difficult contrasts, such as /r/-/l/ for Japanese learners of …
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Partitioned compressed L2 cache
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, February 2002.
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Passive Unaccusatives In L2 English
… unaccusativity refers to a phenomenon whereby L2 English speakers produce unaccusative verbs in passive constructions. Since unaccusative verbs are a subset of intransitive verbs and thus generally do not passivize, the question of how learners recognize unaccusatives without any overt input …
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L2 acquisition of nuclear accent
In acquiring a second language (L2), it has been noted that the phonetics and phonology of an L2 can be difficult for learners to acquire and many sound structures from a learner’s first language (L1) are transferred into the L2, resulting in pronunciation patterns that diverge from the native …
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Automatic Assessment of L2 Spoken English
… learners of English as a second language (L2) have been steadily growing. This has contributed to an increasing demand for automatic spoken language assessment systems for formal settings and practice situations in Computer-Assisted Language Learning. One common misunderstanding about …
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Syntactic Attrition in L2 Mandarin Speakers
… how syntactic skill was maintained or lost by L2 Mandarin Chinese learners over time. In addition, this study endeavored to discover how a learner's L1 affects the attrition process of word order in Mandarin Chinese. To find out how certain Chinese syntactic structures were subject to attrition …
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Coreference processing in L1 and L2
… the extent to which coreference processing in L2 is guided by the same factors that operate in L1 processing. Experiments 1 and 2 (English) tested the prediction that an entity in the subject position is more accessible than an entity in the object position as measured by the relative ease of …
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L2 acquisition of Spanish telic se constructions
… of the Spanish se in transitive constructions by L2 learners of Spanish. Based on a parameterized distinction of the telic features in English and Spanish, this study investigates whether second language (L2) learners are able to reset the aspectual value of the English parameter to that of …
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Self-Repair in L1 and L2 Production
Contains fulltext : mmubn000001_233334955.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Individual Variation in French-L2 Spelling Ability
Canadian French-as-a-Second-Language (FSL) programmes teach students how to read and write in French with the goal of bilingualism. However, students are not consistently attaining a level of French equivalent to native French speakers (Genesee, 1987) and many graduates do not retain their French …
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L2 Phonetic Detail in L1 Lexical Processing
… were used to examine to what extent L1 Spanish L2 English listeners would experience lexical processing delays for Spanish words featuring English-like phonetic detail: auditory lexical decision, and lexical decision with cross-modal priming (auditory – visual). Two types of auditory stimuli …
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Expression of HPV-16 L2 in plants
This study demonstrates high level expression of L2, 25 mg.kg⁻¹of leaf material, is achievable. Interestingly, expression was best when coded for by a mammalian codon-optimized form of the L2 gene as opposed to the wildtype or plant codon-optimized (plantized) genes. Moreover, real time PCR …
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Sentence initial bundles in L2 thesis writing: A comparative study of Chinese L2 and New Zealand L1 postgraduates’ writing
… models. The use of lexical bundles in L2 academic writing has been the focus of a number of recent studies, but few studies distinguish bundles in different sentence positions, investigate bundles from the perspective of metadiscoursal functions, and explore the reasons underlying the …
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ASSESSING L2 CHINESE LISTENING USING AUTHENTICATED SPOKEN TEXTS
… of using authenticated spoken texts to test L2 Chinese listening comprehension. The spoken texts used in the study were created using an “authenticating” technique, in which scripted spoken Chinese texts were infused with characteristics of real-world, unscripted spoken Chinese. In the first …
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Aptitude in L2 and L3 Learners of German
This study aims at contributing to the notoriously under-researched field of
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Relationships between lexical proficiency and L2 oral proficiency
… proficiency is strongly correlated with L2 productive language ability (Crossley, Salsbury, & McNamara, 2011; Laufer & Nation, 1995). While many studies have investigated the relationship between lexical proficiency and L2 writing ability, not many studies have been conducted in terms of …
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L2 Teachers' Efficacy: The Impact Of Professional Development
… development on English as a foreign language (L2) teachers’ sense of efficacy in writing instruction in the country of Georgia. It also explored the links between teachers’ beliefs about teaching writing, self-efficacies in instructional strategies, and the professional development. A …
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