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Peer reviewedLennon, Paul – Language Learning, 1990
Analysis and comparison of speech samples of advance English-as-a-Second-Language learners before and after a 6-month residency in Great Britain found that the use of a battery of 12 readily quantifiable performance variables could help to identify fluency improvements in individual learners and had the potential for providing objective assessment…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Language Enrichment, Language Fluency
Peer reviewedHoover, Michael L.; Dwivedi, Veena D. – Language Learning, 1998
Recent advances in cross-language psycholinguistics provide reading researchers with both the models and the tools needed to investigate the syntactic processing of second-language (L2) readers. In this study, 48 first-language and 48 highly fluent L2 French readers read sentences containing constructions that do not exist in English, pre-verbal…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, English, French
Peer reviewedde Bot, Kees – Language Learning, 1996
Elucidates the psycholinguistic mechanics of the "output hypothesis" and argues that output serves an important role in second language acquisition because it generates specific input the cognitive system needs to build up a coherent set of knowledge. The article hypothesizes that the locus of the effect of output is in the transition of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Knowledge Level, Language Fluency, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedde Groot, Annette M. B.; Poot, Rik – Language Learning, 1997
Orthogonally manipulated three word characteristics in Dutch and English--word imageability; word frequency; and cognate status--and obtained similar data patterns for three groups of bilinguals different from one another in second-language fluency. Findings indicate that "concept mediation" is a universal process in translating words…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Concept Formation, Dutch, English
Peer reviewedde Larios, Julio Roca; Marin, Javier; Murphy, Liz – Language Learning, 2001
This cross sectional study used verbal protocol analysis to compare the temporal distribution of formulation processes of Spanish English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) writers composing first and second language (L1, L2) argumentative texts. Studied three groups at different levels of second language proficiency. Results showed the same total…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Cross Sectional Studies, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedUpshur, John A., Ed.; Fata, Julia, Ed. – Language Learning, 1968
The 14 conference papers and discussion transcripts in this volume were arranged to suggest both an outline of the state of the art of foreign language testing and a practical guide for test writers and users. The first two papers (T.R. Hopkins, Language Testing of North American Indians; and E.J. Briere, Testing ESL Among Navajo Children) deal…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, American Indians, Aptitude Tests, Bilingualism
