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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"L2 input"”.
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Attentional processing of different types of written L2 input and its relationship with learners' working memory capacity
… widely accepted that sufficient target language input is necessary for successful L2 learning. However, the type and the amount of input as well as several cognitive mechanisms play an important role in input processing. The present study investigated how different cognitive mechanisms are …
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Second-Language Speech Learning: An Investigation of Auditory Word Priming
Results revealed that (1) L2 learners use auditory word priming when they are acquiring an L2, (2) the extent to which they do so depends upon L2 learners' attention to the form of spoken input, and (3) L2 learners over-rely on detailed information about spoken words (e.g., information about a …
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Teaching unit on pets for English language learners
… lesson plans; giving students authentic L2 input; designing meaningful and communicative activities; choosing the right type of question to create learning opportunities; and using the guided inductive instructional approach for grammar teaching. Also, it will discuss how to prepare to be …
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The Effects of Sentence Writing as Semantic Elaboration on the Allocation of Processing Resources and Second Language Lexical Acquisition
… found between processing second language (L2) input for meaning and for form (VanPatten, 1990), it is hypothesized that semantic elaboration may negatively affect word form learning. To test this hypothesis, a study was conducted operationalizing semantic elaboration as writing new words in …
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Thinking outside the box: processing instruction and individual differences in working memory capacity
… is a pedagogic intervention that manipulates the L2 input learners are exposed to in the classroom. Proponents of this intervention claim that it poses a minimal strain on learners’ processing resources. While there has been extensive research on the benefits of Processing Instruction in general …
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L2 Representations and Processing of Chinese Nominal Phrases by Speakers of Classifier and Non-Classifier Languages
A central question in second language (L2) acquisition is: What is easy and what is hard in L2 acquisition (DeKeyser, 2005)? Various answers and accounts have been provided, including the Interface Hypothesis (IH; Sorace, 2011), the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis (FRH; Lardiere, 2009), and the …
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Chinese sentence-final particles and their behaviours in English speakers' L2 Chinese
… features are represented in English speakers’ L2 Chinese. In this research, SFPs are analysed as heads instantiating different positions in the CP domain (Paul 2009, 2014, 2015), which are head-final, and in particular, they are considered to carry semantic, syntactic and discourse features. As …
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The acquisition of complex wh- questions in the L2 English of Canadian French and Bulgarian speakers: Medial wh-constructions, inversion phenomena, and avoidance strategies
… of long-distance wh- movement questions in the L2 English of (Canadian) French and Bulgarian speakers. The main phenomenon under investigation is medial wh- constructions (wh- scope marking and wh- copying). Such constructions are of particular interest because they are unattested in both the L1 …
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Second language processing in reading and translation
… the issue of whether adult second language (L2) learners qualitatively differ from native speakers in processing linguistic input. Using psycholinguistic on-line techniques (self-paced reading and eye-tracking paradigms) plus an off-line translation task, four experiments explore the use of …
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A sensitive period for second language acquismon: A reaction-time study of grammaticality juooments of English by Korean-English bilinguals
… by uniformly faster performance by early-learner L2 groups than by late-learner L2 groups. However, no definite evidence was found for such age effects regarding accuracy. Although early-learner L2 subjects as a group surpassed late-learner L2 groups in their accuracy, accuracy was found to be …
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Online sarcasm and its perception by second language learners : the case of Iraqi EFL learners in Iraq and the UK
Although many studies have been written within L2 pragmatics, very few have dealt with L2 irony and sarcasm. The main purpose of this study is to investigate how EFL learners recognize written British English sarcasm. For this purpose, an L2 pragmatics study was designed and applied to two groups …