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Showing 1 to 20 of 119 for “"second language learners"”.
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Morpheme Acquisition In Second Language Learners
This study explored 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 …
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Lexical Representation and Processing in Second Language Learners
While research on monolingual language production and processing has led to the positing of different levels of lexical representation, investigations of the bilingual lexicon have mainly focused on the relationship between the two languages. To explore whether the L2 learner develops an L2 …
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Developing language skills in second language learners through literature discussions
… and their teacher to examine the benefits to language development. Collected over one school year, data included transcribed audiotapes of the book discussions, class interviews, and personal journal entries of the teacher which described classroom events and interactions. Analysis of the …
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Mainstreaming second language learners: teachers' instructional strategies in the classroom
… immigrants experience challenges ranging from language and economic issues to social and cultural integration. The challenges are more acute for children who have to juggle their cultural backgrounds reinforced at home and the values available in their new cultural and social environment. …
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An ethnography of older adult second language learners' expectations for success
… these people often need to learn a new language. However, much evidence has shown that older adults have a more difficult time than their younger adult counterparts in acquiring a second language.The case studies in this ethnography describe the language learning experiences of 26 adult …
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Effects of Simultaneous Listening and Reading on Second Language Learners' Comprehension
This study found that simultaneous listening and reading does not always improve L2 comprehension. Under some conditions, multichannel input can cause interference which lowers students' comprehension. Slowing down the speed and reducing the number of channels of input can sometimes be effective …
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The acquisition of Mandarin by heritage speakers and second language learners
… advantages over proficiency-matched adult second language learners (L2ers) in several Mandarin linguistic phenomena, given the early age of acquisition (AoA) by HSs. Previous studies have found that HSs have an advantage over L2ers in phonology and core aspects of syntax, which develop …
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Investigating Interlingual Errors to Enhance Intelligent Writing Assistants for Second Language Learners
Language-learning apps offer convenient, low-pressure learning environments, often providing real-time feedback to users. One popular type of software is automated writing assistants (AWAs), which afford language-learning opportunities through explanatory messages in response to grammatical errors …
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Grammatical Gender Representation and Processing in Advanced Second Language Learners of French
… challenges of learning French as a foreign language is mastering the gender system. Although there are theories that account for how French native speakers (NSs) master their gender system, it is not fully understood why second language (L2) learners are unable to do the same. The goal of …
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The acquisition of tense and agreement by early child second language learners
… of tense and agreement morphology by child L2 learners in an early stage of language acquisition. The objectives of this study are twofold. The first is to observe the development of verb inflections and syntactic competence over time from an early stage by Chinese child L2 learners of English. …
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Parafoveal preview during reading in Russian: native speakers and second language learners
… and verbs in Russian by native speakers and L2 learners via the boundary-change paradigm (Rayner, 1975) and it’s modified within-word version (Hyöna, Bertram, and Pollatsek, 2004). Syntactic position of the target word and allocation of attention on the target word affected the time-course of …
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An investigation of second language learners' ability to resolve Anaphora in texts
… the resolution of anaphora by adult ESL learners of different proficiency levels. Two reading tests were given containing several common pro-forms. These represented two types of anaphora, NP and VP, in two conditions, context and no context. NP anaphora was presented in two conditions, …
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Selective auditory attention and speech-in-noise perception in English second language learners
… These skills are indispensable for English second language (ESL) learners to achieve successful academic learning, as their learning takes place through an additional language. Second language acquisition is influenced by several factors pertaining to auditory processing skills, such as age …
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Auditory skills and listening comprehension in English second language learners in Grade 1
… Studies indicate that difficulties English second language (ESL) learners experience in the classroom may not only be attributed to listening comprehension of the language of learning and teaching (LoLT). Limited research is available on the auditory skills and listening comprehension in ESL …
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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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On listening comprehension: Linguistic strategies used by second language learners in non-collaborative discourse
Two objectives guide this dissertation: (1) determining which task reveals more comprehension by L2 listeners when they listen to a passage in non-collaborative discourse; (2) identifying the introspective strategies used to comprehend the aural passage.
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Comprehension of Spanish relative and passive clauses by early bilinguals and second language learners
… bilinguals, also known as heritage language (HL) learners, and by second language (L2) learners. To contribute to current theoretical debates on the role of input and age in L2 and bilingual language acquisition, and to current pedagogical inquires on how instruction can be …
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