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Svennevig, Jan; Gerwing, Jennifer; Jensen, Bård Uri; Allison, Meredith – Applied Linguistics, 2019
This study presents a quantitative analysis of pre-emptive strategies used by first language speakers in talk addressed to second language speakers with moderate proficiency. The strategies identified in the conversations are reformulation, simplification, left-dislocation, and decomposition. The data come from simulated emergency calls in which…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communication Strategies, Comprehension, Second Language Learning
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Dollmann, Jörg; Kogan, Irena; Weißmann, Markus – Applied Linguistics, 2020
Given the controversies surrounding the critical period hypothesis on second-language (L2) learning outcomes, this study focuses on the phonological aspect of language acquisition--the strength of the foreign accent in L2. Drawing on data from a large-scale representative data set on immigrant adolescents in Germany--CILS4EU-DE--we first…
Descriptors: Dialects, Second Language Learning, Phonology, Language Acquisition
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Romano, Francesco – Applied Linguistics, 2021
Conversely to plenty of studies describing how L1 transfer affects L2 systems, where the two grammars, L1/L2, often only come to interact later in life, less is known of dominant language transfer in heritage language grammars. Unlike in L2 speakers, the dominant language of the heritage speaker potentially affects its weaker language already from…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Transfer of Training, Grammar
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Jasinska, Kaja; Akpe, Yapo Hermann; Seri, Blahoua Axel Debaye; Zinszer, Benjamin; Agui-Kouadio, Rodrigue Yoffo; Mulford, Kelsey; Curran, Erin; Ball, Mary-Claire; Tanoh, Fabrice – Applied Linguistics, 2022
Few standardized language assessments are adapted to different cultural and linguistic contexts to assess children's first language (L1) abilities. We introduce the Ivorian Children's Language Assessment Toolkit for measuring phonological awareness, vocabulary, oral comprehension, and tone awareness in the Abidji, Attié, and Baoulé languages of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Narration, Native Language, Language of Instruction
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Berger, Cynthia M.; Crossley, Scott A.; Kyle, Kristopher – Applied Linguistics, 2019
A large data set of L1 psycholinguistic norms (Balota "et al." 2007) was used to assess spoken L2 English lexical proficiency in cross-sectional and longitudinal learner corpora. Behavioral norms included lexical decision and word naming latencies (i.e. reaction times) and accuracies for 40,481 English words. A frequency measure was…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Case Studies
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Courtney, Louise; Graham, Suzanne; Tonkyn, Alan; Marinis, Theodoros – Applied Linguistics, 2017
The present longitudinal study examines the interaction of learner variables (gender, motivation, self-efficacy, and first language literacy) and their influence on second language learning outcomes. The study follows English learners of French from Year 5 in primary school (aged 9-10) to the first year in secondary school (Year 7; aged 11-12).…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction