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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"second language learning"”.
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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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The Impact of Gamification on Second-Language Learning
… driven solutions in improving students’ learning outcomes in multiple academic fields. However, limited research is available on the use of TETEM in the context of second language learning. Using a modified TETEM, this study seeks first, to assess the direct effects of student’s attitude, …
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Process drama : affecting the second language learning classroom
… Process drama as a pedagogical methodology for second language acquisition. The dramas were structured around role play in fictional situations designed to improve the pupils' vocabulary in English, mainly using the strategies of Teacher in Role and Mantle of the Expert. This research …
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Improving Second Language Learning Through Performance-Based Assessment Practices
… students. Not only are they required to learn a second language, but they are also assessed within the same standardized testing paradigms as their peers - native speakers of the English language. This study aimed to examine and evaluate the benefits of instructional practices and assessments …
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Talk about Texts: Interactional Literacies in Second Language Learning
… have been found to dominate multiliteracies second language instruction, often at the expense of activities that involve conceptualizing, analyzing, and applying. Recent analyses and critiques of the multiliteracies framework reveal several implications of this shortcoming, including the …
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Temporal perceptions of second language learning motivation : a Japanese context
… motivation has become recognized as crucial in language learning success. Researchers have conducted numerous of studies which have sought to explain why people select, perform, and continue to learn a language. The results and findings of these studies allow us a greater understanding of second …
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Structural Priming in Bilingual Language Processing and Second Language Learning
… in cognitive science, psycholinguistics, and second language acquisition.
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Cognitive Styles, Working Styles on Computers and Second Language Learning
Using a population of English as a second language (ESL) adult students, this study observed relationships among the cognitive styles of Reflection/Impulsivity (R/I) and Field Independence (FI), working styles on computerized language lessons (interaction rate and errors, editing and listening), …
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Child-adult differences in implicit and explicit second language learning
… a fundamental difference between adult and child language learning (Bley-Vroman, 1990; Johnson & Newport, 1989; DeKeyser, 2000; Paradis, 2004). This difference is often framed as a change from implicit language learning in childhood to explicit language learning in adulthood, which is presumably …
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Effects of training methods on second language learning of Mandarin tones
This dissertation investigates the teaching and learning of Mandarin tones. Specifically, it focuses on pedagogical issues relating to the third tone (T3), which developed from different theoretical assumptions concerning the default feature of T3. There are two main assumptions regarding the …
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Extensive Focus on Form, Text -Based Online Chat, and Second Language Learning
… limitations of text-based SCMC as a tool for L2 learning indicated that the learners in general perceived the extensive focus on form, role-play task, and text-based online mode of communication as beneficial with the extensive focus on form element being perceived as most helpful.
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The Optimal Distance Model of Acculturation and Success in Second Language Learning
… for the success of a selected sample of adult second language learners. Brown's model proposes that sociocultural factors account for the success of second language learners in the cultural environment of the second language.
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Oral and writing strategies in French second language learning: An action research study
Despite the extensive research conducted on second language (L2) learning over the years, there is no emerging distinct choice of L2 learning approach or strategy that single-handedly facilitates beginning second language learning. Research that seek to find out how beginning L2 learning is best …
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Transmedia storytelling in the portuguese context of english as a second language learning
No contexto português, o ensino de Inglês como segunda língua (IL2) é orientado pelo cumprimento de metas e temáticas propostas no currículo nacional. Esta estrutura dogmática não permite explorar a utilização que os alunos fazem da língua nos seus contextos informais e exclui oportunidades de …
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Language technologies in speech-enabled second language learning games : from reading to dialogue
Second language learning has become an important societal need over the past decades. Given that the number of language teachers is far below demand, computer-aided language learning software is becoming a promising supplement to traditional classroom learning, as well as potentially enabling new …
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The Effects of Reading & Reading Strategy Training on Lower Proficiency Level Second Language Learning
… was to investigate what effect reading in a second language has on the knowledge and language performance of young adult missionaries studying to learn a foreign language. It was hypothesized that reading would improve vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension, and it was further …
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The role of the first language in second language learning for adult learners : a Vygotskian perspective
… of the present study is to provide a view of the second language learning process, in which the first language (LI) was used for second language learning (L2). Through data collected in authentic classrooms from two groups of learners, Level One and Level Two, it is hoped that the present study …
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Field Independence as a Predictor of Second Language Learning for Adult Esl Learners in the u.s. (United States)
… Witkin (1977) and his colleagues, has in recent second language (L2) research been thought to bear some significant relationship to a person's success or failure in learning a L2. The primary focus of this study was to explore, in a more direct and specific manner than in previous research, the …
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Second language learning strategies and factors affecting their use: a qualitative study of the experiences of missionaries in Nepal
In the past 20 years identifying the effective second language learning strategies of language learners is a topic that has received considerable attention in the field of second language acquisition. More recently, research has focused on the factors that affect strategy use. Attention has been …
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