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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"second language (L2) learners"”.
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The Effects of Attentional Focus, Presentation Mode, and Language Experience on Second Language Learners' Sentence Processing
… focus, presentation mode, and level of language experience on second language (L2) learners' processing of Object-Verb-Subject sentences in Spanish. The Competition Model and the first language sentence processing research that centers on it served as one source of insight into the …
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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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L2 acquisition of Spanish telic se constructions
… of the Spanish se in transitive constructions by L2 learners of Spanish. Based on a parameterized distinction of the telic features in English and Spanish, this study investigates whether second language (L2) learners are able to reset the aspectual value of the English parameter to that of …
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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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The Effectiveness of Implicit and Explicit Instruction on German L2 Learners’ Pronunciation
… implicit and explicit instructional methods on second language (L2) learners’ grammatical accuracy. However, there is a scarcity of studies focused on the effects of the two teaching methods on L2 learners’ pronunciation. To fill this gap, the present thesis examines the effects of implicit and …
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Examining native and non-native establishment of dependencies in the online processing of coordinate phrase agreement in Spanish: An event-related potentials study
… native speakers of Spanish and English-speaking second language (L2) learners of Spanish. In Spanish, nouns are assigned a grammatical gender (masculine/feminine), and adjectives must agree with the noun in gender. The masculine gender is argued to be a morphological default or ‘elsewhere’ form. …
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Number matters: enhancing nominal number to facilitate subject-verb agreement
… dissertation examined whether Chinese-speaking learners’ processing of subject-verb (S-V) agreement in English is modulated by the accessibility of number features in the subject noun phrase, given that in English S-V agreement the verbal form is dependent on the number of the sentence subject. …
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Agentivity of passives and inchoatives in second language learners of English and Korean
Second language (L2) learners' overpassivization of unaccusatives such as '*the accident was happened' have been widely investigated. One popular account claims that L2 learners lexically causativize unaccusatives and then syntactically passivize them. This study suggests an alternative …
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THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: POIESIS AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE MULTILINGUAL SUBJECT
<p>This study explores relationships between second language acquisition (SLA), poetic language, and embodied cognition and its connection to second language speakers’ linguistic self-formation, or their distinct ways of speaking and thinking. In particular, this study examines processes by which …
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Phonological Awareness and Foreign Accent: A Handbook for German EFL Teachers
… 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 better …
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Online Processing of Wh-Dependencies in English by Native Speakers of Spanish
This study investigated if, Spanish-speaking learners of English are capable of processing wh-dependencies incrementally and observing the grammatical constraints that regulate wh-extraction in English, similar to native speakers. The study included two self-paced reading experiments run in a …
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The syntax-pragmatics interface in L2 : aspects of information structure teaching and learning in a Saudi ESL context
Despite advancements in teaching English as a second language (ESL) in Saudi Arabia, Saudi ESL learners’ language, even at advanced levels, deviates from that of native English speakers. While these ESL learners can often generate well-formed sentences, their output may not be fully comprehensible …
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Predicting the Academic Success of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing University Students: A Multilevel Analysis
Second Language (L2) learners and Deaf and Hard of Hearing (Deaf/HH) students share some commonalities. Both groups are required to obtain a minimum score on Language Proficiency Tests (LPT) to gain acceptance into university level institutions. However, even with accommodations, language …
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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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A corpus-based lexical and grammatical error identification: L2 learners academic writing
… in English has never been an easy task to many second language (L2) learners. Many of them perform poorly in their English academic writing where numerous lexical and grammatical errors are found in their report. Therefore, this thesis investigates the difficulties faced by UTHM learners …
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L2 gender facilitation and inhibition in spoken word recognition
… gender facilitation and inhibition in second language (L2) learners' spoken word recognition. Native speakers of languages that have grammatical gender are sensitive to gender marking when hearing and recognizing a word. Gender facilitation refers to when a given noun that is preceded …
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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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Second Language Comprehension and Processing Grammatical Form: The Effects of Topic Familiarity, Mode, and Pausing
According to VanPatten's (1996) second principle of input processing, second language (L2) learners are able to process grammatical form in the input only if they are able to process the informational content at little cost to attentional resources. Using this principle of input processing as a …
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Student and instructor perceptions of the L2 writing-for-reading process
… process in the context of foreign language instruction. The central research question which guides this study is: How do intermediate second language (L2) learners of German engage with and manipulate an original source text when composing a creative writing task? To understand the …
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Exploring the Role of Task Features in Second Language Pragmatics Production
This dissertation examines how task features in second language (L2) learners' interaction and pragmatics performance. A systematic review and two experimental study are included in the dissertation. The first study systematically investigates the effectiveness of task-based language teaching …
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