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Using the Adapted Flemish Sign Language Visual Communication and Sign Language Checklist
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Wille, Beatrijs; Allen, Thomas; Van Lierde, Kristiane; Van Herreweghe, Mieke – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2020
This study addresses the topic of visual communication and early sign language acquisition in deaf children with a Flemish Sign Language (Vlaamse Gebarentaal or VGT) input. Results are obtained through a checklist focusing on sign-exposed deaf children's visual communication and early sign language acquisition: the adapted VGT Visual Communication…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Linguistic Input, Deafness, Foreign Countries
Promoting L2 Acquisition of Multiword Units through Textually Enhanced Audiovisual Input: An Eye-Tracking Study
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Puimège, Eva; Montero Perez, Maribel; Peters, Elke – Second Language Research, 2023
This study examines the effect of textual enhancement on learners' attention to and learning of multiword units from captioned audiovisual input. We adopted a within-participants design in which 28 learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) watched a captioned video containing enhanced (underlined) and unenhanced multiword units. Using…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Recall (Psychology)
Receptive Knowledge of Intensifying Adjectival Compounds: Belgian French-Speaking CLIL and Non-CLIL Learners of Dutch and English
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Hendrikx, Isa; Van Goethem, Kristel – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
Languages differ in their preferences for particular intensifying constructions. While intensifying adjectival compounds (IACs) (e.g. "ijskoud, ice-cold") are productively used to express intensification in Dutch and English, in French this construction is hardly productive. Consequently, French-speaking learners may encounter…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Learning L2 Vocabulary from Audiovisual Input: An Exploratory Study into Incidental Learning of Single Words and Formulaic Sequences
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Puimège, Eva; Peters, Elke – Language Learning Journal, 2019
Television is considered an important source of comprehensible input for second language learners of English and there is some evidence that L2 words can be learned incidentally by watching television. Few studies have looked at the role of TV viewing for learning formulaic sequences, despite the ubiquity of formulaic sequences in spoken English,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pretests Posttests, Recognition (Psychology)
Vocabulary Learning through Viewing Video: The Effect of Two Enhancement Techniques
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Montero Perez, Maribel; Peters, Elke; Desmet, Piet – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2018
While most studies on L2 vocabulary learning through input have addressed learners' vocabulary uptake from written text, this study focuses on audio-visual input. In particular, we investigate the effects of enhancing video by (1) adding different types of L2 subtitling (i.e. no captioning, full captioning, keyword captioning, and glossed keyword…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Linguistic Input
Game On! Young Learners' Incidental Language Learning of English Prior to Instruction
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De Wilde, Vanessa; Eyckmans, June – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
In this paper the incidental language acquisition of 11-year-old Flemish children (n = 30) who have not received any formal English instruction is investigated. The study looks into children's English proficiency and the learner characteristics that can be associated with it. In order to measure the children's English proficiency, a receptive…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Linguistic Input, Native Language