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Edmonds, Amanda; Gudmestad, Aarnes; Metzger, Thomas – Applied Linguistics, 2020
This investigation responds to the need for longitudinal data-driven research on additional-language (AL) acquisition by examining grammatical-gender marking among AL learners of French during a 21-month period, which included an academic year abroad (LANGSNAP corpus). The analysis of oral production consists of a generalized linear mixed model…
Descriptors: French, Longitudinal Studies, Second Language Learning, Grammar
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Lee, Jiyong – Applied Linguistics, 2019
Relationships among task characteristics, L2 performance, and interlanguage development are of interest both for SLA research and the design of syllabuses and language teaching materials. Complexity has been identified as a promising, but methodologically problematic, task design feature. A study was conducted of the effects of progressive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Native Language, Stress Variables, Difficulty Level
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Al-Gahtani, Saad; Roever, Carsten – Applied Linguistics, 2012
L2 requests in developmental pragmatics research are commonly investigated using non-interactive data collection techniques or sidelining the larger discourse sequence in which the request proper is embedded. This study takes a different approach to the study of L2 requests. In a cross-sectional design, we collected role play data from learners at…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Social Environment, Pragmatics, Language Proficiency
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Asencion-Delaney, Yuly; Collentine, Joseph – Applied Linguistics, 2011
The present study adds to our understanding of how learners employ lexical and grammatical phenomena to communicate in writing in different types of interlanguage discourse. A multidimensional (factor) analysis of a corpus of L2 Spanish writing (202,241 words) generated by second- and third-year, university-level learners was performed. The…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes, Spanish, Computational Linguistics
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Tarone, Elaine E. – Applied Linguistics, 1990
Responds to a previous article criticizing the variation models of second-language acquisition (SLA), and argues that the variation models can and do explain (SLA) and that any adequate model of SLA should take interlanguage into account. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Language Variation, Linguistic Theory, Models
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Ellis, Rod – Applied Linguistics, 1999
Provides an explanation for the existence of free variation in learner language. Argues that interlanguage is best conceptualized as sets of loose lexical networks that are gradually reorganized into a system or systems. Free variation arises when learners add items to those they have already acquired and before they analyze these items and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Grammar, Interlanguage, Linguistic Theory
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Kasper, Gabrielle – Applied Linguistics, 2001
Assesses the contributions made by different approaches to interlanguage pragmatics as a subfield of second language acquisition. Discusses how four particular perspectives on pragmatic development relate to each other. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Pragmatics
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Zuengler, Jane – Applied Linguistics, 1989
Assesses the role of identity in interlanguage development and performance, focusing on what research suggests about the relationship of identity to the speaker's overall target, to selected features of the speaker's interlanguage, and to target language speakers' attitudes toward the interlanguage speaker. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Interlanguage, Language Research, Language Styles
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Lin, Yuh-Huey – Applied Linguistics, 2003
Investigates variability in interlanguage consonant cluster simplification strategies within the four factors--style, gender, proficiency, and interlocutor. Examined how these factors determine Chinese English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) speakers' production of English word-initial consonant clusters. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Chinese, Consonants, English (Second Language), Interlanguage
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Gregg, Kevin R. – Applied Linguistics, 1990
Examines the work of two scholars who have made the greatest contributions to the variabilist perspective on second-language acquisition, and discusses the acquisition models that each of these scholars has proposed. (50 references) (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Grammar, Interlanguage, Language Research
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Robison, Richard E. – Applied Linguistics, 1995
This article examined the aspect hypothesis, which asserts that verb inflections in early interlanguage systems function primarily as markers of lexical aspect independent of the target language. A study of interviews conducted with 26 Puerto Rican college students grouped into 4 proficiency levels found that the association of inflections with…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Interlanguage
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White, Lydia – Applied Linguistics, 1987
Discusses several objections to Krashen's Input Hypothesis which states that language acquisition is the learners' understanding of a language at a stage slightly higher than their current one because of their understanding of extralinguistic cues of the language. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Child Language, Interference (Language), Interlanguage, Learning Theories
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Schofield, Phil – Applied Linguistics, 1987
Examines critically three aspects of research into communications strategies (CS) with special reference to an article from an earlier volume of the journal that describes CS as a means to communicate a problem word rather than a problem meaning. This particular research on CS is found to be unsatisfactory. (LMO)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Interlanguage
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Ellis, Rod – Applied Linguistics, 1988
Longitudinal data regarding three children's learning of English as a second language in a classroom setting support the hypothesis that the distribution of grammatical variants in learner speech is sensitive to linguistic context. Results suggest that the learners acquired the target language variants in "pronoun contexts" before "noun contexts."…
Descriptors: Context Clues, English (Second Language), Grammar, Interlanguage
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Matsumura, Shoichi – Applied Linguistics, 2003
Aimed to account for the different levels of pragmatic development among 137 university-level Japanese learners of English, as functions of their varying levels of English proficiency and amount of exposure to English. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Interlanguage
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