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Brown, Amanda – Modern Language Journal, 2015
This article investigates bilingual versus monolingual construal of manner of motion in speech and gesture across three languages--Mandarin, Japanese, and English--argued to be typologically distinct in speech and co-speech gesture (Brown & Chen, 2013; McNeill, 2001; Slobin, 2004b; Talmy, 1991). Narrative descriptions of motion were elicited…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Albirini, Abdulkafi; Benmamoun, Elabbas – Modern Language Journal, 2014
This study compares Arabic L1, L2, and heritage speakers' (HS) knowledge of plural formation, which involves concatenative and nonconcatenative modes of derivation. Ninety participants (divided equally among L1, L2, and heritage speakers) completed two oral tasks: a picture naming task (to measure proficiency) and a plural formation task. The…
Descriptors: Native Language, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Morphemes
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Plaza-Pust, Carolina – Modern Language Journal, 2008
Research over the last decades has shown that language development in its multiple forms is characterized by a succession of stable and unstable states. However, the variation observed is neither expected nor can it be accounted for on the basis of traditional learning concepts conceived of within the Universal Grammar (UG) paradigm. In this…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Systems Approach, Second Language Learning, Grammar
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Chapelle, Carol A. – Modern Language Journal, 2009
The point of departure for this article is the contrast between the theoretical landscape within view of language teaching professionals in 1991 and that of today. I argue that the pragmatic goal of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) developers and researchers to create and evaluate learning opportunities pushes them to consider a variety…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Educational Technology, Social Environment
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Rosemont, Henry, Jr. – Modern Language Journal, 1974
Discusses and defends the innateness hypothesis - that a component of the human mind is a species-specific language learning mechanism--and discusses some implications of that hypothesis. (RM)
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creativity, Language Acquisition, Language Instruction
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Field, Thomas T.; And Others – Modern Language Journal, 1984
Describes a two-course, team-taught series originally designed to introduce students to the nature of language and other symbolic systems. The course is a building block for language, literature, and other multidisciplinary programs. It also provides a coherent framework for the updated study of foreign languages. (SL)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Intercultural Communication, Introductory Courses, Language Universals
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Thomas, Margaret – Modern Language Journal, 1995
Examines the relationship between ideas of universal grammar (UG) and second language (L2) teaching and learning in medieval Europe in the context of the 20th-century debate about the role of UG in L2 acquisition. The roles of generative linguistics on UG and L2 instruction and learning in the 20th century are discussed. (65 references) (MDM)
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Educational History, European History, Grammar