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Using Variationism and Learner Corpus Research to Investigate Grammatical Gender Marking in Additional Language Spanish
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Gudmestad, Aarnes; Edmonds, Amanda; Metzger, Thomas – Language Learning, 2019
The current study responds to the call for increased dialogue among different areas of additional language research. Specifically, we bring together learner corpus research and variationist approaches to second language acquisition to advance learner corpus research in two ways: (a) by modeling interlanguage development and variability and (b) by…
Descriptors: Language Research, Error Analysis (Language), Computational Linguistics, Interlanguage
Constructing a Second Language: Analyses and Computational Simulations of the Emergence of Linguistic Constructions from Usage
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Ellis, Nick C. – Language Learning, 2009
This article presents an analysis of interactions in the usage, structure, cognition, coadaptation of conversational partners, and emergence of linguistic constructions. It focuses on second language development of English verb-argument constructions (VACs: VL, verb locative; VOL, verb object locative; VOO, ditransitive) with particular reference…
Descriptors: Verbs, Second Language Learning, Computational Linguistics, Statistical Distributions
Vowel Epenthesis of /sC(C)/ Onsets in Spanish/Swedish Interphonology: A Longitudinal Case Study.
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Abrahamsson, Niclas – Language Learning, 1999
This case study investigated whether patterns obtained from elicited speech also hold for conversational data. A longitudinal corpus of spontaneous/natural speech from an adult first-language Spanish learner of second-language Swedish is studied. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Interlanguage, Language Patterns
A New Look at Methodologies in the Study of Article Acquisition for Learners of ESL.
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Parrish, Betsy – Language Learning, 1987
A longitudinal study of a Japanese-speaking learner of English as a second language (ESL) analyzed the learner's article system and found that it was not target-like but also not totally random. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Determiners (Languages), English (Second Language), Interlanguage, Language Patterns
A Case Study of a Japanese Child Learning English as a Second Language
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Hakuta, Kenji – Language Learning, 1976
This article reports major findings of a longitudinal, naturalistic study of the acquisition of English as a second language by a five-year-old Japanese girl. The emphasis is on empirical findings rather than on any particular theoretical orientation. (Author/POP)
Descriptors: Case Studies, English (Second Language), Interference (Language), Interlanguage
The Contribution of Second Language Acquisition Research.
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Klein, Wolfgang – Language Learning, 1998
Raises three questions concerning the present state of second-language acquisition research: (1) What has it achieved for language teaching? (2) How close is a theory of second-language acquisition? (3) What is its status within the chorus of disciplines that deal with language? (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Grammar, Intellectual Disciplines, Interlanguage
Another Piece of the Puzzle: The Emergence of the Present Perfect.
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Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen – Language Learning, 1997
Examines the emergence of the present perfect in the interlanguage of instructed adult learners of English as a Second Language. Findings indicate that adding a new inflection in the tense/aspect system requires establishing new form-meaning associations as well as revising existing ones. (44 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Associative Learning, English (Second Language)