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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"instructed second language acquisition"”.
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Markedness and instructed SLA: An experiment in teaching the Spanish subjunctive
… the role of typological markedness on instructed second language acquisition (SLA). In particular, the study has examined whether instruction in a marked Spanish subjunctive use had an effect on the acquisition of this marked element and triggered the acquisition of unmarked subjunctive …
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The Impact of Cognitive Processes on Input Enhancement Techniques: studying Chinese Students with English as their Second Language
This thesis investigates the effects of an instructed second language acquisition method called Input Enhancement: textual using boldface, and audio enhancement, using intonation and stress and explicit rules aimed at facilitating gender pronoun grammar structures in English as a second language. …
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EXPLICIT WRITTEN CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK AND LANGUAGE APTITUDE IN SLA: IMPLICATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF LINGUISTIC ACCURACY
Most second language researchers agree that there is a role for corrective feedback in second language writing classes. However, many unanswered questions remain concerning which linguistic features to target and the type and amount of feedback to offer. This study examined two new pieces of …
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The acquisition of differential object marking in L2 Spanish learners
… in Spanish has been found to be problematic for second language (L2) learners whose first language is English, with errors persisting after instructional intervention including positive and/or negative evidence (Bowles & Montrul, 2008; Bowles & Montrul, 2009a; Farley & McCollam, 2004; …