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Showing 1 to 20 of 308 for “"first language"”.
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A First Language in Second Language Writing
… place in the classroom environment before the first practice exam for the semester, by interviewing instructors to see if and when they lectured about the forms of prewriting, and by looking at practice exam prewriting documents to see when students pre-wrote and if they used their L1 during …
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Motion Event Expression in Bilingual First Language Acquisition
… expression (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 …
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Quantification of first language transfer effect on second language acquisition
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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The Reflection of First-Language-Derived Processes in Second Language Acquisition
In research on first language acquisition, similarities between children acquiring any language have been attributed to the operation of common, universal processes, such as the formation of rules and rule generalization. However, it is not necessarily the case that processes for interpreting …
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Translation versus direct composition. effects of first language on second language arab writers
… Arabic students when writing in their second language (English), compose best directly in the second language or compose best in their first language and hen translate in their second language. This study of English and Arabic compositions written by 60 native Arabic speakers at the university …
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The first language acquisition of scalar inferences from -Cocha 'Even' by Korean-speaking children
This thesis investigates the first language acquisition of scalar inferences from Korean particle -cocha 'even.' Based on the fact that also evokes the same existential inference with even, and that also and even have the same focus scope in Korean, this thesis compares the acquisition of Korean …
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First language teaching initial reading: blessing or curse for the Zambian children under primary reading programme?
Unfamiliarity with the language of teaching is blamed for the high illiteracy rate among people who live in nations in which hundreds of languages are spoken. For a critical test of the importance of the language in which initial reading is taught we took the Zambian situation as a natural …
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The role of the first language in second language learning for adult learners : a Vygotskian perspective
… present study is to provide a view of the second language learning process, in which the first language (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 …
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Bilingual first language acquisition: the nature of the weak language and the role of the input
… thesis investigates the development of the weak language in early bilingual language acquisition and its results are based on longitudinal and experimental data from 4 Italian-English bilingual children and their parents. The purpose of this thesis is twofold: firstly, to present a new method to …
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Leveraging the L1: the role of EAL learners' first language in their acquisition of English vocabulary
… classified as having English as an additional language (EAL), meaning that they routinely use, or are exposed to, languages other than English. It is commonly thought that EAL learners’ first languages (L1s) can be leveraged to positively impact their linguistic and academic development in …
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Second language processing of wh-movement in English : the effects of first language and learning environment
… Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, 2010
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Study of an older child's first language learned as the minority language in a bilingual setting
"The literature on bilingualism and language change shows considerable evidence that simplification, reduction, restructuring and loss of linguistic systems in the first language (mother tongue) do occur on a large scale under certain conditions. The research reported here is the case study of a …
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Sepedi or Sesotho sa Leboa: A sociolinguistic perspective of first language speakers from selected South African Universities.
… the use of two different names for the same language, Northern Sotho viz.: Sepedi and Sesotho sa Leboa, from a sociolinguistic perspective of first language speakers from two selected South African universities, a university of technology in Pretoria (A) and a full-time university in Limpopo …
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Examining students' perspectives on the use of first language in community-based English as second language classrooms
… research investigates the perspectives on first language (L1) use by adult students of English as a second language (ESL) in three ESL community-based programs in Michigan, United States. The study focuses on community-based programs because, even though it offers a variety of social, …
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Phonological development of first language isiXhosa-speaking children aged 3;0-6;0 years a descriptive cross-sectional study
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Connecting input to comprehension: First language acquisition of active transitives and suffixal passives by Korean-speaking preschool children
A central issue in language acquisition is the contribution of input to the development of linguistic knowledge. In this dissertation project, I investigate the developmental trajectories of two constructions that express transitive events in Korean (active transitives and suffixal passives) for …
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Challenges Oshikwanyama first language teachers face in implementing reading comprehension skills at six selected schools in the Khomas region
… study investigated challenges that Oshikwanyama First Language secondary school teachers and learners face in implementing reading comprehension skills at six selected schools in Khomas Region. The study focused on the strategies that Oshikwanyama First Language teachers employ to teach Reading …
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The phonological development of typically developing first language Zulu-speaking children aged 2;6 - 6;5 years : a descriptive cross-sectional study
Background: Zulu, one of the eleven official languages in South Africa, is the most spoken language in the country. However, research on children's phonological development in Zulu is minimal. To date there are no published Zulu speech assessments and associated normative data that speech-language …
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