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Zhang, Shuai; Breuer, Esther Odilia; Grünke, Matthias; Joshi, R. Malatesha – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
The current study examined German spelling errors among students with German as their first language (L1) and those with German as their second language (L2) in Grades 3-4 (elementary school students; n = 127) and Grades 5-7 (secondary school students; n = 379). Five hundred and six students participated in the study. We performed two separate…
Descriptors: Spelling, Error Analysis (Language), Individual Differences, Foreign Countries
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Yiran Zhang; Mostafa Papi – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
The present study employs regulatory focus theory (Higgins, 1997) to investigate the effects of L2 speakers' chronic regulatory focus on their L2 pragmatic versus grammatical awareness. It involved the participation of 121 Chinese students, who are English language learners, at a university in the United States. Haws et al.'s (2010) questionnaire…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Grammar, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning
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Zhang, Shuai; Hudson, Alida; Ji, Xuejun Ryan; Joshi, R. Malatesha; Zamora, Juan; Gómez-Velázquez, Fabiola R.; González-Garrido, Andrés Antonio – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2021
This study examined Spanish spelling errors among 166 native Spanish-speaking students from Kindergarten to Grade 3 based on a spelling-to-diction task. Fifteen types of spelling errors were analyzed in a latent class analysis. Results suggested three phases of spellers: Phase 1 students had a high chance of committing almost all types of errors.…
Descriptors: Spelling, Spanish Speaking, Elementary School Students, Task Analysis
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Sultana, Asifa – Language Learning and Development, 2021
Crosslinguistic research into language development reveals that typological features determine children's developmental patterns to a large extent. The present study examines the early morphological development in the verb inflectional paradigm in Bangla. Data from the first 6 months since the emergence of two-word combinations were collected from…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphology (Languages), Indo European Languages, Language Acquisition
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Qin, Jie; Lei, Lei – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
This study offers a bibliometric analysis of research trends in task-based language teaching (TBLT) from 1985 to 2020. The analysis covers research questions related to the publication trends, venues for publication, productive authors, highly cited articles and references and, more importantly, the most frequently explored TBLT-related topics and…
Descriptors: Trend Analysis, Bibliometrics, Task Analysis, Second Language Learning
Alsaigh, Tahani N. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examines second language activation in Arabic-English bilinguals for whom Arabic was the first language. Modeling its design on Colome (2001), the research compared processing in a picture-phoneme matching task for Arabic-English bilinguals tested in the United States or in Saudi Arabia to determine whether activation of English…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Semitic Languages, Bilingualism, Native Language