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Showing 1 to 20 of 826 for “"Language acquisition"”.
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Academic Language Acquisition
… behind the CCSS’s decision to increase academic language acquisition. Multiple sources were systematically reviewed to find implications for teaching academic language in the content areas. Research studies were examined to determine the impact of requiring academic language acquisition in the …
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Unsupervised language acquisition
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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Poetry, media, and second language acquisition
The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe and analyze how the graduate course: "Writing, Reading and Teaching Poetry" influenced American and international students' writing, thinking, response to poetry, teaching beliefs and English learning through their participating in the class …
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Chinese rhythm in second language acquisition
… phonology, morphology, syntax, and natural language processing. However, little is known about how non-native speakers process and acquire these constraints. This dissertation investigates whether Chinese second language (L2) learners and heritage learners can acquire such prosodic …
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Article semantics in second language acquisition
… article choice and parameter-setting in second language (L2) acquisition. It argues, on the basis of L2-English elicitation and production data, that L2- learners have access to UG-based semantic distinctions governing article choice, but do not know which distinction is appropriate for English. …
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Towards a Language Acquisition Pedagogy of Performance
… that address the learning journeys of English language learners in mainstream classroom settings. It also explores the translatability of performance pedagogy for online learning platforms. Premised on principles embedded within two conceptual frameworks, Gibbons's (2015) Mode Continuum and …
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How Classroom Questioning Influences Second Language Acquisition
… perceptions of classroom climate, previous language learning experience, environmental and motivational factors, and assumptions about how to speak a language, contributed to the complexity and differences in students' question asking and/or answering patterns. Teacher and student …
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Early quadrilingual language acquisition: a longitudinal case study
… study examines the early quadrilingual language acquisition of a young girl, Sofia, who was born and raised in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. Sofia was exposed to Slovak, Japanese and English from birth and Italian from the age of 18 months. In addition to investigating the …
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The Effects Of Anxiety On Second Language Acquisition
Anxiety occurs in second/foreign language learning. A large body of previous research has demonstrated the effect of language anxiety on second/foreign language learning. Many studies have found anxiety has a debilitating effect on language learning. Factors associated with anxiety have also been …
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Motion Event Expression in Bilingual First Language Acquisition
… (Talmy 1985, 2000a,b) for bilingual first language acquisition of English (satellite-framing) and French (verb-framing), addressing the following question: How does the expression of motion develop in simultaneous bilingual children in comparison to monolinguals? The particular focus of …
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Second Language Acquisition: The Effect of Age and Motivation
This paper looks into the competence of second language acquisition by investigating how second language is acquired. Furthermore it explores the age factor in learning another language other than mother tongue and also attempts to answer if there is enough current evidence that can demonstrate …
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World language acquisition in early childhood urban immersion programs
… the country is lagging: early childhood world language acquisition In the 21st century, most countries around the world teach children a foreign language at an early age, whereas in the United States, it is English only.” Since most countries teach English as a Foreign Language as part of the …
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The Relationship Between English Language Structure and Language Acquisition
… and complicated aspects of the English language as well as the implications for new English speakers. This investigation provides an overview of the language, some of the difficulties faced by English language learners (ELL), and encouragement and understanding for those teaching it and …
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Second Language Acquisition and Processing of Chinese bei Passives
… takes a feature-based approach and probes the L2 acquisition and processing of Chinese bei passives by adult English native speakers. In Chinese, an individual passive marker bei is used to mark passive constructions. Whilst historically used as a lexical verb, bei is in the process of being …
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Language acquisition and language variation : the role of morphology
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1995.
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The influence of collaboration networks on programming language acquisition
… this hypothesis by analyzing the programming language adoption of hundreds of thousands of programmers on the social coding platform Github. We show that adopting more difficult programming languages requires more reinforcement from the collaboration network. This research sheds light on the …
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Sealbhú na Gaeilge ag naíonáin: early language acquisition of Irish
Speech and language therapy (SLT) services are coming under increased pressure to provide people living in linguistic minority communities with assessment and intervention in the language of the community in which the client lives. In Ireland, Irish, although a minority language, enjoys a positive …
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