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Nivja H. de Jong – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2023
In current research into second language (L2) speaking, aspects of fluency are measured as static constructs. Averaged over a complete speaking performance, for instance, syllables per minute is calculated. Similarly, the number of pauses is calculated per minute, averaged over a complete speaking task. This paper argues, however, that we need to…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Language Fluency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Abd Elwahab, Waleed – Arab World English Journal, 2020
Due to the variety of their local dialects and accents, Arab learners occasionally face some problems when pronouncing English letters and phonemes. These pronunciation errors are caused by the influence of native language interference. Each language in any part of the world has its linguistic characteristics and rules that control their…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Hsu, Funie – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2020
Though California's English Learner (EL) policies were developed in response to civil rights struggles for language access and equal educational opportunity, they are also conditioned by the history of U.S. settler and overseas conquest. This article presents a Critical Policy Analysis (CPA) of the California EL classification policies and…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Classification, Educational Policy, Native Language
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Kelly, Laura Beth – Language Policy, 2018
I analyze two bills from the state legislatures of California (SB 1174) and Arizona (SB 1242) that propose to expand bilingual education where English-only education was previously the default. Using a critical discourse analysis lens to conduct a directed content analysis, I ask who bilingual education is for, why it is offered, and how the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Bilingual Education Programs, English Language Learners, Language Planning
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Dulfano, Isabel; Rubio, Fernando – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
The objective of this paper is to trace the actual demand on enrolments over time, as much as the history of wavering public and academic sentiment towards teaching and speaking Spanish in this country during the last century. Secondarily, we examine the question of the value of mother tongue fluency or the acquisition, mastery and usage of the…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
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van den Noort, Maurits; Struys, Esli; Kim, Kayoung; Bosch, Peggy; Mondt, Katrien; van Kralingen, Rosalinde; Lee, Mikyoung; van de Craen, Piet – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2014
In this paper, in contrast to previous neuroimaging literature reviews on first language (L1) and second language (L2), the focus was only on neuroimaging studies that were directly conducted on multilingual participants. In total, 14 neuroimaging studies were included in our study such as 10 functional magnetic resonance imaging, 1 positron…
Descriptors: Brain, Language Processing, Multilingualism, Diagnostic Tests
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Von Holzen, Katie; Mani, Nivedita – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
We examined how words from bilingual toddlers' second language (L2) primed recognition of related target words in their first language (L1). On critical trials, prime-target word pairs were either (a) phonologically related, with L2 primes overlapped phonologically with L1 target words [e.g., "slide" (L2 prime)-"Kleid" (L1 target, "dress")], or…
Descriptors: Evidence, Priming, Word Recognition, Interference (Language)
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Beykont, Zeynep F. – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2012
This article examines youth assessment of the quality and success of languages provision. The discussion draws on data collected from students and graduates of Victoria's 16 secondary Turkish programs in large-scale surveys (n=858) and follow-up interviews (n=177). Surveys revealed that upper secondary Turkish classrooms serve predominantly…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Surveys
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Schoonen, Rob; van Gelderen, Amos; Stoel, Reinoud D.; Hulstijn, Jan; de Glopper, Kees – Language Learning, 2011
This longitudinal study investigates the development of writing proficiency in English as a foreign language (EFL), in contrast to the development of first language (L1) writing proficiency in Dutch L1, in a sample of almost 400 secondary school students in the Netherlands. Students performed several writing tasks in both languages in three…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Second Language Learning, Metacognition, Foreign Countries
McCabe, Allyssa; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.; Bornstein, Marc H.; Brockmeyer Cates, Carolyn; Golinkoff, Roberta; Wishard Guerra, Alison; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Hoff, Erika; Kuchirko, Yana; Melzi, Gigliana; Mendelsohn, Alan; Páez, Mariela; Song, Lulu – Society for Research in Child Development, 2013
Multilingualism is an international fact of life and increasing in the United States. Multilingual families are exceedingly diverse, and policies relevant to them should take this into account. The quantity and quality of a child's exposure to responsive conversation spoken by fluent adults predicts both monolingual and multilingual language and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Misconceptions, Second Language Learning, Literacy