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Direct linkWiener, Seth; Lee, Chao-Yang; Tao, Liang – Language Learning, 2019
This study investigated how adult second language (L2) learners of Mandarin Chinese use knowledge of phonological and lexical statistical regularities when acoustic information is insufficient for word recognition. A gating task was used to test intermediate L2 learners at two time points across a semester of classroom learning. Native Mandarin…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Mandarin Chinese
Peer reviewedWhite, Lydia; And Others – Language Learning, 1997
Studies on second-language acquisition of reflexives have experienced difficulties assessing learners' knowledge of the binding principles because of problems associated with ambiguous sentences where there is more than one antecedent for a reflexive. In this study, English-as-a-Second-Language students were tested using a variety of sentence…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Ambiguity, Context Clues, English (Second Language)
