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Direct linkImma Miralpeix – Language Teaching, 2024
This article puts forward several proposals for replicating two well-known "First Exposure" studies dealing with the earliest stages of adult second language acquisition. Both of them enquire into the word-level knowledge that complete beginners are able to extract from minimal input when exposed to a new language for the first time.…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Replication (Evaluation), Adult Learning, Second Language Learning
Pfenninger, Simone E.; Singleton, David – Language Teaching, 2019
While there is a growing body of research on second language acquisition (SLA) in children, adolescents, young and more mature adults, much remains to be explored about how adults in later life learn a new language and how good additional language learning is for them. Our goal in this article is to survey and evaluate what is known about the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Older Adults, Adult Learning
Serrano, Raquel; Miralpeix, Imma – Language Teaching, 2013
This paper reviews a selection of doctoral theses on language learning and teaching completed in Spain between 2008 and 2010. A total of 16 theses have been identified as representative--in terms of the topics under investigation and the methodology employed--of the doctoral research undertaken in Spain. Current topics include the development of…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Personal Autonomy, Immigrants, Adult Learning
