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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"adult L2 learners"”.
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Processing of English relative clauses by adult L2 learners
… understanding of the characteristics of the L2 sentence processing mechanism deployed by adult L2 learners would provide valuable insights into this important human ability. The present dissertation is an attempt to draw a detailed picture of the L2 sentence processing mechanism by comparing …
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The verb movement parameter and adult L2 learners of Spanish
This study addresses the question of whether adult L2 learners of Spanish reset the V-movement parameter (Pollock, 1989) value from ($-$ raise) from their English L1 to (+ raise) in their L2. Numerous studies have addressed this question as it applies to L2 acquisition of French and English …
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Developmental stages in reading Chinese as a second language
This dissertation investigated whether adult second language (L2) learners of Chinese go through stages when learning to read Chinese characters. A study conducted with preschoolers to 6th graders in China (Chen, 2004) had demonstrated that children whose native language (L1) is Chinese pass …
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Why wait? Psycholinguistic investigations of the roles of learning condition and gender stability in L2 gender-based anticipation
… grammatical gender poses a pervasive problem for adult second language learners. Whereas native speakers can use prenominal grammatical gender marking to anticipate upcoming nouns in sentences, L2 learners often show a reduced or absent ability to use gender in this manner (Grüter, Lew-Williams, & …
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The Role of Individual Differences in the Acceptability of Island Violations in Native and Non-native Speakers
… test whether it is possible for second language learners (L2) to acquire syntactic constraints that are not present in their first language (L1). According to the Full Transfer/Full Access Hypothesis (Schwartz & Sprouse, 1996), L2 properties are potentially acquirable by adult L2 learners …
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A psycholinguistic exploration of focus of attention in second language learning based on recent research findings from the field of motor skill learning
… two sample populations comprising a total of 140 adult L2 learners of English. The experiments, run on E-Prime, involved grammaticality judgements and vocabulary learning conducted under practice and test conditions. Subjects were assigned to one of three instructional groups: baseline, internal …
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Phonological Awareness and Foreign Accent: A Handbook for German EFL Teachers
… less trustworthy. However, the pronunciation of adult second language (L2) learners is extremely difficult to change, and L2 native-like pronunciation is rarely achieved after early childhood. The latest research suggests that explicit instruction about phonological awareness can contribute to …
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The acquisition of tense and agreement by early child second language learners
… of tense and agreement morphology by child L2 learners in an early stage of language acquisition. The objectives of this study are twofold. The first is to observe the development of verb inflections and syntactic competence over time from an early stage by Chinese child L2 learners of …
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Chinese rhythm in second language acquisition
… investigates whether Chinese second language (L2) learners and heritage learners can acquire such prosodic constraints. Two broad research questions are asked: (1) Can adult L2 learners of Chinese acquire these prosodic constraints? (2) Do heritage speakers have selective advantages over L2 …
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Acquisition of English morphosyntax : evidence from a Chinese-speaking child
… second important line, more relevant to child L2 research, focuses on the comparison of child L2 (cL2) acquisition with child first language (cL1) and adult L2 (aL2) acquisition in the domains of morphology and syntax. On the observation that attainment in cL2 is superior to aL2, Schwartz …
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The effects of self-monitoring strategy use on the pronunciation of learners of English
… on identifying the strategies used by successful learners. When strategy instruction has been investigated, in most cases the strategies that were taught were not directly linked to specific tasks, learners were not observed using the strategies, and measures of strategy effectiveness often were …
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Child-adult differences in implicit and explicit second language learning
… that there is a fundamental difference between adult and child language learning (Bley-Vroman, 1990; Johnson & Newport, 1989; DeKeyser, 2000; Paradis, 2004). This difference is often framed as a change from implicit language learning in childhood to explicit language learning in adulthood, which …
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Processing of canonical and scrambled word orders in native and non-native Korean
… the nature of processing mechanisms in adult first-language (L1) and second-language (L2) sentence processing, specifically, whether adult L2 learners are capable of developing native-like sentence processing strategies. By testing a head-final language (Korean) with relatively free word …
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THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK, AFFECT, AND ORAL ENGLISH IMPROVEMENT
… acted as a trigger to catalyze improvements in adult L2 learners’ anxiety, attitude, motivation, and self-confidence, and to develop their English oral proficiency.
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The role of the first language in second language learning for adult learners : a Vygotskian perspective
… (LI) was used for second language learning (L2). Through data collected in authentic classrooms from two groups of learners, Level One and Level Two, it is hoped that the present study will provide insight, which will enable teachers and researchers who are interested in second language …
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Use of plausibility information and structural preference in resolving sentence ambiguity in Korean
… (NSs), heritage speakers of Korean (HSs), and adult second-language (L2) learners of Korean (K2s). HSs in the current study were Korean-English early bilinguals whose dominant language was English while K2s were international students and immigrants living in Korea. The main research focus in …
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Comprehension of Spanish relative and passive clauses by early bilinguals and second language learners
… bilinguals, also known as heritage language (HL) learners, and by second language (L2) learners. To contribute to current theoretical debates on the role of input and age in L2 and bilingual language acquisition, and to current pedagogical inquires on how instruction can be beneficial for HL …