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Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke L.; Best, Catherine T.; Tyler, Michael D. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
Improvement in second-language (L2) perception has been posited to occur early in L2 learning when the L2 vocabulary is still small, whereas a large L2 vocabulary curtails perceptual learning (the perceptual assimilation model for SLA [PAM-L2]; Best & Tyler, 2007). This proposition is extended by suggesting that early L2 lexical development…
Descriptors: Vowels, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
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Iwashita, Noriko – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
This study examines the role of task-based conversation in second language (L2) grammatical development, focusing on the short-term effects of both negative feedback and positive evidence on the acquisition of two Japanese structures. The data are drawn from 55 L2 learners of Japanese at a beginning level of proficiency in an Australian tertiary…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grammar, Feedback (Response), Japanese