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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"adult second-language (L2)"”.
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The effects of simplification, linguistic item, and language experience on second language learners' attention to form contained in the input
… postulates that during the early stages of second language acquisition (SLA), constraints on adult second language (L2) learners' information processing mechanism are largely responsible for what is attended to in the input. Recently, some psycholinguistic studies have begun to investigate …
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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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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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CHINESE CLASSIFIER ACQUISITION: COMPARISON OF L1 CHILD AND L2 ADULT DEVELOPMENT
… is the long-debated issue of whether or not adult second language (L2) development is basically similar to child first language (L1) development. The thesis approaches the issue through research dealing with L1 acquisition of Chinese classifiers and a pilot study of L2 adult classifier …
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CHINESE CLASSIFIER ACQUISITION: COMPARISON OF L1 CHILD AND L2 ADULT DEVELOPMENT
… is the long-debated issue of whether or not adult second language (L2) development is basically similar to child first language (L1) development. The thesis approaches the issue through research dealing with L1 acquisition of Chinese classifiers and a pilot study of L2 adult classifier …
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Neurophysiologic and Behavioral Measures of Phonetic Perception in Adult Second Language Speakers of Spanish
… phonemes) phonetic change in their native language or not. A child's ability to identify non-native consonant contrasts greatly diminishes by 11-12 months of age. The present study examined speech sound discrimination in three groups of listeners. Adult second language (L2) listeners of …
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Spoken English at airport/border control customs: Designing and evaluating an interactive model for occupational English with adult second language learners on the go
… (EOP) training prototype that supports workplace adult second language (L2) language learners in three phases. Phase I consisted of a needs assessment conducted with customs officers from three customs offices across Costa Rica as well as undergraduate students enrolled in a Customs Administration …
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Second language processing in reading and translation
… level, addressing 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 …
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Nominal phrases in English and Japanese speakers' L2 Mandarin grammars
… aims to examine the extent to which native languages (Ll) influence interlanguage development and whether there exis,ts a direct link between the suppliance of appropriate morphemes and the presence of their syntactic properties in interlanguage grammars. To answer these questions, this …
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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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Similarity in L2 Phonology
Adult second language (L2) learners often experience difficulty producing and perceiving non-native phonological contrasts. Even highly proficient bilinguals, who have been exposed to an L2 for long periods of time, struggle with difficult contrasts, such as /r/-/l/ for Japanese learners of …
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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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Effects of auditory feedback and real-time visual feedback on second language tone learning
… processed by the right hemisphere for non-tonal language speakers, lexical tone as well as other language aspects (such as phonemes, syntax and semantics) appears to be processed by the left hemisphere for tonal language speakers. Adult second language (L2) learners of Mandarin whose native …