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Qiusi Zhang – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This longitudinal case study investigated the developmental trajectories of two participants enrolled in an ITA oral communication course at Purdue University. The course provides language support to the ITA population who play a crucial role in higher education programs in the U.S. (Gorsuch, 2016). Over four months (i.e., one semester), I…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Assistants
Akers, Crystal Gayle – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Learners must simultaneously learn a grammar and a lexicon from observed forms, yet some structures that the grammar and lexicon reference are unobservable in the acoustic signal. Moreover, these "hidden" structures interact: the grammar maps an underlying form to a particular interpretation. Learning one structure depends on learning…
Descriptors: Grammar, Acoustics, Error Analysis (Language), Ambiguity (Semantics)