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Showing 1 to 20 of 487 for “"second language acquisition"”.
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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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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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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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The Effects Of Anxiety On Second Language Acquisition
Anxiety occurs in second/foreign language learning. A large body of previous research has demonstrated the effect of language anxiety on second/foreign language learning. Many studies have found anxiety has a debilitating effect on language learning. Factors associated with anxiety have also been …
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Second Language Acquisition: The Effect of Age and Motivation
This paper looks into the competence of second language acquisition by investigating how second language is acquired. Furthermore it explores the age factor in learning another language other than mother tongue and also attempts to answer if there is enough current evidence that can demonstrate …
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Second Language Acquisition and Processing of Chinese bei Passives
… takes a feature-based approach and probes the L2 acquisition and processing of Chinese bei passives by adult English native speakers. In Chinese, an individual passive marker bei is used to mark passive constructions. Whilst historically used as a lexical verb, bei is in the process of being …
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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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A grammatical and pragmatic analysis of English passives in second language acquisition
… results are accounted for in terms of not only language transfer and but also a socio-cultural factor, prestige of a passive sentence with respect to an active sentence. Of particular interest is the existence of a hierarchy of acceptability in pragmatic errors. Analysis of medio-passive errors …
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EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY PARTICIPATION AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS: SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
… students as a function of status as an English Language Learner. Additionally, the extent to which participation was related to socioeconomic status and length of time in U.S. schools was examined. The secondary purpose of this journal-ready dissertation was to ascertain to what extent …
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The Aptitude Domain: A Componential Analysis of Learner Aptitude in Second Language Acquisition
… last century, research into its importance in language acquisition was for many years neglected. One of the most important aspects of aptitude research involves an attempt to accurately ascertain its constituent parts and the respective roles they play in overall learner ability. The present …
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Conscious Reconstruction: The Effects of Second Language Acquisition on Self-Perception of Gender Identity
<p>Gender interacts with other facets of English Language Learners’ social identity like race and ethnicity to guide their learning experiences, desires, and outcomes; however, much of traditional Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) research has focused on how motivation and language …
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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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Speech style, syllable stress, and the second-language acquisition of Spanish /e/ and /o/
… and proficiency level on the production of the second-language (L2) Spanish vowels /e/ and /o/. The study addresses traditional descriptions of L2 Spanish (e.g. Stockwell & Bowen, 1965), which claim that English-speaking learners, unlike native speakers (NSs), reduce vowels in unstressed …
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The Relationship Between Achievement in Second Language Acquisition of Southeast Asian Students and Influencing Variables
The problem. Early evaluation of the English as Second Language program for the Southeast Asian refugee population showed a range of achievement levels in English language acquisition. Sociocultural and psychological factors influencing the success in second language acquisition have been of …
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Teachers' Beliefs about the Factors that Support Successful Second Language Acquisition of Elementary School Students
Second language acquisition has increased in importance in elementary schools throughout the United States due, in part, to the growing numbers of English Language Learners (ELLs) as well as an economic and social demand for native English speakers to learn world languages. The purpose of this …
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