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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Second languages"”.
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Telecommunications and the second language classroom
… students' attitudes towards writing in their second languages, their attitudes towards learning second languages, and their acquisition of writing skills in their second languages. The students involved in this study were from two small rural Midwest high schools and were in their second year …
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An analysis of communication between health-care workers and Xhosa-speaking patients in a Cape Town hospital, from the perspective of language cognition and inter-cultural communication
… to a lack of complete fluency in the respective second languages. Culture-bound assumptions about illness and communication of important information are also studied. The thesis contends that vital information does tend to be minimised or even lost and examines the consequences of this loss, and …
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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 verb movement parameter and adult L2 learners of Spanish
… this question in the acquisition of other second languages by learners whose V-movement parameter settings differ from their L1. Thus, the present study addresses the following two research questions: Do adult L2 learners of Spanish from different levels accept to the same degree sentences …
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Word order and case in Kashmiri
… language differs from all other Indo-Aryan languages is the appearance of the finite verb in the clause second position in declarative matrix clauses and ki (subordinate) clauses. This ""verb-second"" phenomenon that we notice in Kashmiri is found elsewhere only in the languages belonging to …
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Position Paper: English Language Curriculum guidelines for elementary School English Language Learners
… following the model for teaching English as a Second Language (ESL). As the literature reveals, students acquire second languages more successfully in a risk free environment where the focus is on communication and not solely grammar drills of form and function. Language curriculum must allow a …
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Il lessico in corsi universitari di italiano l2
… the disciplines that deal with the learning of second languages as well as in language teaching, although in the past has not always received the attention it deserved. The first chapter gives an account of some terminological and theoretical issues. The second chapter explains the role that …
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A Grounded Theory study of English as Second Language (ESL) students’ experiences with literary texts, with reference to the University of Zululand
The study of ESL students’ experiences with literary texts generated a theoretical model accounting for the intricate relationships among some interwoven phenomena. The model was informed by the precepts of the systematic procedures of Strauss and Corbin (1990) and the attendant central phenomenon, …
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Two Tongues for a Dream: A Hermeneutic Study
… simultaneously in the dreamer's native and second language. The aim was to learn more about the significance of including the bilingual patient's native tongue when working with dreams in a dreamer's second language. Key concepts on the study of language, dreams, psychological complexes, …
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Grade three(3) pupils preparedness for the read on course(ROC): a case of selected basic schools in Chingola district of Zambia
… in Bemba as a first language and English as a second language. The study addressed the following main objectives among others: to establish if Grade 3 pupils could read and write at desirable levels in both Bemba as a first language and English as a second language; and to find out factors that …
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Grade three(3) pupils preparedness for the read on course(ROC): a case of selected basic schools in Chingola district of Zambia
… in Bemba as a first language and English as a second language. The study addressed the following main objectives among others: to establish if Grade 3 pupils could read and write at desirable levels in both Bemba as a first language and English as a second language; and to find out factors that …
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Exploring a common learning, teaching and assessment framework for isiNguni languages in South Africa
… Framework (CLTAF) for the South African isiNguni languages, viz. isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu and siSwati. In order to meet this primary aim of the study, a number of objectives had to be attained. Firstly, some linguistic similarities, discrepancies and complexities based on recently published …
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Aspects of a Karitiana grammar
… a parallel between Karitiana and Germanic verb second languages: in both systems the matrix tensed verb must surface in C, and a phrase must fill Spec,CP. The latter is only a tendency in Karitiana. Standard agreement is nominative (absolutive), although whenever the object is A-bar moved to the …
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The Effects of Hypertext Glosses on L2 Vocabulary Acquisition: A Meta-Analysis
In the field of second language acquisition (SLA), "comprehensible input" (Krashen, 1985) has been considered a critical factor to help learners acquire foreign and second languages (L2). From this perspective, the notion of extensive or free voluntary reading (Day & Bamford, 1998; Krashen, 1993) …
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EXPLORING DEMOGRAPHIC CORRELATES OF LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AMONG ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
… criteria, including SES, ethnicity, first and second language proficiency levels, language dominance, immigrant and/or generational status, acculturation status, and educational placement history predict ELL student achievement levels (Abedi, 2008). However, the majority of states do not …
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Developing L2 reading fluency: Implementation of an assisted repeated reading program with adult ESL learners
… repeated reading is an effective way for adult second language (L2) learners of English to develop oral and silent reading fluency rates. Reading fluency is an underdeveloped construct in second language studies, both in research and practice. This study first lays out a framework of text …
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Political implications of bilingual cognition
… paradigm implies that phrases from different languages will be understood exactly the same way, as long as they are faithful translational equivalents. However, recent research in cognitive psychology has demonstrated otherwise. Affect research experiments have shown that the emotional impact …