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Showing 1 to 20 of 1595 for “"second language"”.
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Working in a Second Language
<p>Research on the perceptions that native Mandarin speaking employees have about their personal ability to communicate with their native English speaking co-workers and the perceptions the native English speaking employees have about the native Mandarin speaking coworkers' ability to communicate …
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Detecting deception in second-language speakers
… affected when someone is speaking in his or her second language. We examined whether language proficiency had an impact on lie detection. We hypothesized that when judging the veracity of second-language speakers, participants would be better able to discriminate between truth- and lie-tellers …
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Morpheme Acquisition In Second Language Learners
… morpheme acquisition in learners of English as a Second Language (ESL). Specifically, it looked at the development of eight selected individuals from Korea over the course of an intensive 8-week instruction program and tracked their acquisition of three specific English morphemes: indefinite …
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Predictors of Second Language Reading Span
<p>There are obvious differences between a second language (L2) and a native language (L1). When processing an L2, a person is slower and prone to more errors than when processing an L1. However, the reasons for these differences are not clearly understood. A possible explanation is a limitation in …
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Poetry, media, and second language acquisition
The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe and analyze how the graduate course: "Writing, Reading and Teaching Poetry" influenced American and international students' writing, thinking, response to poetry, teaching beliefs and English learning through their participating in the class …
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Chinese rhythm in second language acquisition
… phonology, morphology, syntax, and natural language processing. However, little is known about how non-native speakers process and acquire these constraints. This dissertation investigates whether Chinese second language (L2) learners and heritage learners can acquire such prosodic …
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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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Article semantics in second language acquisition
… examines article choice and parameter-setting in second language (L2) acquisition. It argues, on the basis of L2-English elicitation and production data, that L2- learners have access to UG-based semantic distinctions governing article choice, but do not know which distinction is appropriate for …
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A First Language in Second Language Writing
… the results show that some students do language switch and use their L1 when prewriting. More research is needed to see what students and instructors believe is prewriting. There also needs to be more elucidation in survey material, more exposition for subjects as to what prewriting …
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How Classroom Questioning Influences Second Language Acquisition
… perceptions of classroom climate, previous language learning experience, environmental and motivational factors, and assumptions about how to speak a language, contributed to the complexity and differences in students' question asking and/or answering patterns. Teacher and student …
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Grammatical constraints in second language sentence processing
… to quantitative factors such as the amount of language experience, the proficiency level in the target language or the availability of processing resources (Frenck-Mestre, 2002; Hopp, 2006; McDonald, 2006). The present dissertation seeks to further our understanding of adult L2 syntactic …
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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 experiments …
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Second language academic writing: What’s the target?
… United States. They are all highly accomplished second-language writers (SLWs), and the study draws upon their lived experience and expertise in guiding SLW graduate students who are seeking to develop their proficiency in an immersive English-language environment. The university writing center …
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Second language learning from a multilingual perspective
How do people learn a second language? In this thesis, we study this question through an examination of cross-linguistic transfer: the role of a speaker's native language in the acquisition, representation, usage and processing of a second language. We present a computational framework that enables …
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Explicit Grammar Instruction and the Acquisition of Second Language Verbal Morphology: A Framework for Generalized Learning in Second Language Acquisition
… ultimate attainment and syntactic structure in second language acquisition by positing a distinction between competence-based and generalized learning processes. Within this framework, competence-based learning is theorized to employ inductive learning processes to acquire a basic set of skills …
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Teaching linguistic mimicry to improve second language pronunciation.
This thesis tests the hypothesis that a whole language approach to ESL (English As A Second Language) pronunciation with emphasis on suprasegementals through the use of linguistic mimicry is more effective than a focus on segmentals in improving native speakers perceptions of accent and …
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The Role of Motivation in Second Language Pronunciation
… the phonological ability of exceptional second language (L2) learners of English and their levels of motivation. This study is the first of its kind to do a large-scale examination of L2 learners whose first languages (L1s) do not belong to the same Indo-European language family as …
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