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Uzal, Melike; Peltonen, Teemu; Huotilainen, Minna; Aaltonen, Olli – Language Learning, 2015
This study investigated whether children born in a second language (L2) environment pronounce their L2 with foreign accents and, if so, when foreign accents first emerge. This study also examined the latest age of onset (AO) of extensive L2 experience at which native L2 pronunciation is possible and explored several factors that affect the degree…
Descriptors: Turkish, Finno Ugric Languages, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Service, Elisabet; Yli-Kaitala, Hely; Maury, Sini; Kim, Jeong-Young – Language Learning, 2014
Although the significance of age in second language acquisition is one of the most hotly debated issues in the field, very few studies have directly addressed age differences in the language learning process. The present study investigated learning in a foreign-word repetition task. Young Finnish adults and 8-year-olds repeated back Korean words.…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Age Differences, Task Analysis

Liski, Erkki; Puntanen, Simo – Language Learning, 1983
Analysis of error patterns in a test taken by 698 Finnish university students shows errors are made in this declining order of frequency: grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, and use. More talkative students were proportionately more proficient per utterance, and higher proficiency also correlated with sex (female) and high matriculation test…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Second Language Programs, English (Second Language), Error Patterns