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Staples, Shelley; Gray, Bethany; Biber, Douglas; Egbert, Jesse – Applied Linguistics, 2023
Grammatical complexity has been established as a key indicator of language and writing development (Ortega 2003; Bulté and Housen, 2014; Crossley and McNamara 2014). The present study uses the Register-Functional approach to complexity (Biber et al. 2022) to compare the development of L1 English and L2 English writers across year of study and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Skills, Grammar
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Cecilia Guanfang Zhao; Jincheng Wu – Applied Linguistics, 2024
Authorial voice is often identified as a key trait of successful writing in English rhetoric and composition, leading to research on its construction, development, and assessment in various types of written texts. Using Hyland's (2008) interactional metadiscourse framework, existing studies have also examined the use of particular voice-related…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Languages, Writing (Composition), Discourse Analysis
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Hayakawa, Sayuri; Bartolotti, James; Marian, Viorica – Applied Linguistics, 2021
According to the US Department of State, a native English speaker can learn Spanish in about 600 h, but would take four times as long to learn Japanese. While it may be intuitive that similarity between a foreign language and a native tongue can influence the ease of acquisition, what is less obvious are the specific cognitive and emotional…
Descriptors: Native Language, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies
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Booton, Sophie A.; Wonnacott, Elizabeth; Hodgkiss, Alex; Mathers, Sandra; Murphy, Victoria A. – Applied Linguistics, 2022
Most common words in English have multiple different meanings, but relatively little is known about why children grasp some meanings better than others. This study aimed to examine how variables at the child-level, wordform-level, and meaning-level impact knowledge of words with multiple meanings. In this study, 174 children aged 5- to 9-years-old…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Psycholinguistics, Language Tests, Verbal Ability
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Taguchi, Naoko; Chen, Ying; Qin, Yuqing – Applied Linguistics, 2023
This study explored the relationship between metapragmatic knowledge and transfer of learning from one speech act to another. Using a digital application, 105 Chinese learners of English received implicit instruction on how to formulate a high-imposition request to someone in a higher social status and larger social distance. Immediately after the…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Speech Acts, Transfer of Training, Metalinguistics
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Lee, Carmen – Applied Linguistics, 2023
This paper probes alternative meanings and processes for decolonizing English that arise from the particular geopolitical histories and identities of Hong Kong and engagement with political and translingual activism. I illustrate the positioning and tension between English, 'Kongish' (a mix of English and localized linguistic resources in Hong…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Chinese, Decolonization
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Reuterskiöld, Christina; Hallin, Anna Eva; Nair, Vishnu K. K.; Hansson, Kristina – Applied Linguistics, 2021
This article provides an overview of the research on morpho-syntactic challenges in Swedish-speaking children with developmental language disorder (DLD), compared with typically developing (TD) children learning Swedish as their first and second language (L1/L2). Children with DLD show vulnerabilities with verb finiteness, the possessive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Swedish, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
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Kevin W H Tai – Applied Linguistics, 2024
A growing number of studies have explored the ways how teachers contingently respond to students' unexpected responses or a lack of student responses in second language classrooms. From a sociocultural perspective, teacher contingency involves a departure from the lesson plan in local response to the unexpected or unforeseeable actions in the…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Teaching Methods, Language Usage, Classroom Communication
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Deshors, Sandra C. – Applied Linguistics, 2021
This multifactorial corpus-based exploration of past tenses focuses specifically on the present perfect (PP) versus simple past (SP) alternation in intermediate-to-advanced learner English produced by French and German native speakers. While existing work on past tenses in L2 has traditionally focused on the role of lexical aspect in the…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Second Language Learning, Computational Linguistics, German
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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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Kormos, Judit; Košak Babuder, Milena; Pižorn, Karmen – Applied Linguistics, 2019
Our study investigated the differences in low-level L1 skills and L2 reading, listening, and reading-while-listening outcomes between young dyslexic and non-dyslexic Slovenian learners of English. The research, in which children completed four language assessment tasks in three modes in a carefully counter-balanced order, also examined the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Skills, Second Language Learning, Dyslexia
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Nagle, Charles L. – Applied Linguistics, 2019
Recent longitudinal approaches to second language (L2) pronunciation development have prioritized developmental trajectories, highlighting individual variation in phonetic learning over time. Aligning with this research paradigm, the present study examined voice onset time (VOT) production in Spanish/b/and/p/ over two semesters of elementary…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Pronunciation
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Kramsch, Claire – Applied Linguistics, 2020
This article explores the way native language teachers translate their linguistic and cultural experience in order to make it understandable to their students in the classroom. It examines how they report on this translation to researchers in two research projects conducted with two Chinese teachers (Kramsch and Zhang 2018) and one Japanese…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cultural Differences, Language Teachers
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