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Aktan-Erciyes, Asli; Ünlütabak, Burcu; Zengin, Betül Firdevs – First Language, 2021
This study investigates the effects of early second-language (L2) acquisition on introduction of characters in narrative discourse by comparing 5- and 7-year-old monolingual (first-language [L1] = Turkish) and bilingual (L1 = Turkish, L2 = English) children. Turkish does not have a grammaticalized article system like English which enables to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Native Language
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Mykytiuk, Svitlana; Lysytska, Olena; Melnikova, Tetiana; Mykytiuk, Serhii – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2022
The research studied the effectiveness of the integration of Facebook as a flexible ubiquitous learning space into the educational process for speaking skills development of undergraduate students learning English as a second language. For this purpose teaching was organised via a specially created and moderated Facebook group where various media…
Descriptors: Social Media, Social Networks, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Marsden, Emma; Chen, Hsin-Ying – Language Learning, 2011
This study aimed to isolate the effects of the two input activities in Processing Instruction: referential activities, which force learners to focus on a form and its meaning, and affective activities, which contain exemplars of the target form and require learners to process sentence meaning. One hundred and twenty 12-year-old Taiwanese learners…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Children, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar