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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"L2 proficiency"”.
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Gaining Pragmatic Competence in English as a Second and a Foreign Language: The Effects of the Learning Environment and Overall L2 Proficiency
… of the learning environment and overall L2 proficiency on the development of pragmatic competence, with reference to grammatical competence. Participants were three groups of English language learners: 120 international students who speak English as a second language from a research …
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Language and Working Memory Capacity in Early Adulthood: Contributions From First and Second Language Proficiency
… was to investigate the impact of language proficiency (represented in first and second language) on working memory capacity. A sample of 100 college students from Virginia Tech University completed an on-line survey, performed 2 computer-based working memory capacity tasks (the OSPAN and …
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Individual Variables in Context: A Longitudinal Study of Child and Adolescent English Language Learners
… success is tied to their second language (L2) English education. Previous research in adult populations indicates that L2 proficiency is related to the contextual variable of the prevalence of one’s first language (L1) among their peers, called L1 density, which may also moderate the …
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The influence of proficiency and age of acquisition on second language processing: An fMRI study of Mandarin-English bilinguals
… the neural correlates of second language (L2) processing has usually studied age of acquisition (AoA) and proficiency separately. Presently, we examined both in parallel, treated as continuous variables. We used fMRI to study neural activity for L2 processing in adult native Mandarin …
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The Potential Influence of Crosslinguistic Similarity on Lexical Transfer: Examining Vocabulary Use in L2 English
… their knowledge and use of second language (L2) vocabulary, a phenomenon known as lexical transfer. Past research on this shows that learners’ L1 influences their L2 word choices, and that lexical similarity—which relates to cognancy—between L1 words and their L2 counterparts facilitates the …
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Automatic syntactic analysis of learner English
… language is needed to facilitate research on L2 SCFs. In this thesis, we first provide a comprehensive evaluation of standard POS taggers and parsers on learner and native English. We show that the common practice of constructing a gold standard by manually correcting the output of a system …
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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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Mother Tongue Interference in English Language Pronunciation of the Chinese Immigrant in the United States
… encounter many difficulties in acquiring L2 proficiency. Some of these challenges are tied to 1) Chinese immigrants’ history in the US and the variety of Chinese dialects; 2) distinctions between Chinese and English phonological systems; 3) diversity among Chinese Americans; 3) mother …
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The second language acquisition of subject pronoun distribution in English, Italian and Polish: testing the Interface Hypothesis
… properties may be fully acquirable by end-state L2 speakers, syntax-discourse interface properties may not. However, research evidence to date is mixed and suffers from theoretical and methodological flaws. This study investigates the IH predictions by testing for the second language acquisition …
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Foreign Language Comprehension: Understanding the Centrality Deficit
… to determine how reading in a foreign language (L2) affects one's mental representation of the text and the ability to recognize and recall the text's important information. Using a within-participants design, the proportion of central and peripheral ideas recalled by participants reading in …
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Content-Based Instruction and Corpus Linguistics Curriculum for Early Advanced EFL Saudi Students
… EFL students having difficulty improving their L2 proficiency. For this reason, I developed a curriculum that incorporates content-based instruction and corpus linguistics. The curriculum is divided into six units. The units focus on the five basic language skills: Reading, Writing, Listening, …
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Gloss positioning for a gaze aware L2 reading aid
… texts written in the learner’s second language (L2). However, reading can be a daunting task for language learners, as text may contain a large amount of unknown vocabulary. We developed a gaze-informed application that has the ability to augment articles with information about the text during …
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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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THE ROLE OF SES AND ASL FOR LITERACY SUCCESS IN ASL-ENGLISH BILINGUALS
… first language (L1) and second language (L2) spoken language proficiency which impacts literacy development. American Sign Language-English deaf bilingual children exhibit a unique profile because L2 literacy is achieved without prior development of spoken L2 proficiency. This provides an …
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Reexamining Linguistic Relativity: What Adult Bilinguals Can Teach Us About Culture, Language, And Cognition
… her thinking and behavior under second language (L2) conditions. According to one interpretation of LR, inter-language relativity, L1 instills in its speakers habitual ways of thinking and thus influences their perception and categorization in L2 contexts. Under intra-speaker relativity, …
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A linguistic analysis of event conceptualisation processes in first and second language discourse: Evidence for language-specificity in the temporal discourse organisation of basic and advanced Czech and Hungarian learners of English
… in first language (L1) and second language (L2) discourse. Previous research suggests that the way grammatical aspect is encoded in the speaker's L1 can influence how events are conceptualised in their L2 (von Stutterheim & Carroll 2006). Given the lack of consensus regarding partial (Bylund …
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Focus on form from the inside : the significance of grammatical sensitivity for L2 learning in communicative ESL classrooms
… learners at an advantage in second language (L2) learning? Early research on aptitude (Carroll, 1962) established the significance of grammatical sensitivity when learners are in structure-based instructional settings. This study addressed the question of whether grammatical sensitivity is …
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The Aptitude Domain: A Componential Analysis of Learner Aptitude in Second Language Acquisition
… between grammatical sensitivity and amount of L2 learning experience.</p> <p>Based on previous testing models, an aptitude test was devised and used to assess 35 participants who possess different levels of L2 learning experience. To test whether grammatical sensitivity is influenced by prior …
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Translanguaging as Scaffolding in Collaborative Learning: A Research in the Context of Chinese EFL Classrooms
… correlation between students' second language (L2) proficiency and positive attitudes towards translanguaging, which suggest that higher-proficiency learners perceive less need for translanguaging as an educational strategy. Since such a pattern is derived from a context-specific sample, it …
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The processing of formulaic language on elicited imitation tasks by second language speakers
… may or may not contribute to second language (L2) fluency in speaking performance. To examine the effect of formulaic language on L2 fluency, this study utilized elicited imitation (EI) tasks designed to measure general English language proficiency in order to compare repetition of individual …
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