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Direct linkBorovsky, Arielle – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Toddlerhood is marked by advances in several lexico-semantic skills, including improvements in the size and structure of the lexicon and increased efficiency in lexical processing. This project seeks to delineate how early changes in vocabulary size and vocabulary structure support lexical processing (Experiment 1), and how these three skills…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Semantics, Vocabulary Development, Language Processing
Listanti, Andrea; Torregrossa, Jacopo – First Language, 2023
Heritage language (HL) speakers seem to diverge from monolingual speakers in the acquisition of syntax-discourse interface phenomena. However, most of the studies reporting this finding do not make any distinction between different types of syntax-discourse interface structures. Therefore, it is an open question whether these structures are…
Descriptors: Italian, Language Acquisition, Verbs, Narration
Download full textYuan, Man; Cheng, Wei – English Language Teaching, 2017
Lexical stress is an important contributor to foreign accent as well as intelligibility of second language (L2) speech. The present study intends to find out to what extent Chinese-speaking learners whose native language has less evident stress can acquire English lexical stress. A production test was administered to nine advanced Chinese learners…
Descriptors: Chinese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Lexicology
Shakir, Hani; Yaseen, Bilal Huri – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The study focuses on the acquisition of English prepositions among students of Iraqi secondary school in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Participants in the study were (20) students all of them at sixth level. The researchers studied the students' responses to the given test to investigate the problematic prepositions of English language that Iraqi…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Form Classes (Languages), Secondary School Students
Uchikoshi, Yuuko – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2014
This study examines vocabulary growth rates in first and second languages for Spanish-speaking and Cantonese-speaking English language learners from kindergarten through second grade. Growth-modeling results show a within-language effect of concepts about print on vocabulary. Language exposure also had an effect on English vocabulary: earlier…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Spanish Speaking, Sino Tibetan Languages, Native Language
Liao, Ern-Huei – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The problem. The purpose of this study is to investigate positive and negative cross-linguistic transfer on EFL learners' phraseological competence in collocations and its relationship to learners' linguistic proficiency. Method. A quantitative study was conducted. Two instruments, multiple choice test and grammaticality judgment test, were…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, English (Second Language), Language Acquisition, Language Proficiency
Cookson, Simon – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2009
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is currently implementing a program to improve the language proficiency of pilots and air traffic controllers worldwide. In justifying the program, ICAO has cited a number of airline accidents that were at least partly caused by language factors. Two accidents cited by ICAO are analysed in this…
Descriptors: Accidents, Linguistics, Interference (Language), Code Switching (Language)
Lenskyj, Helen – TESL Talk, 1980
Results of a 10-item oral language test presented only orally, orally with pictures, and orally with concrete aids replicate earlier research findings showing that bilingual children manipulate language more easily than unilinguals. Unilinguals' errors were due to incomplete development while bilinguals' were caused by that and first-language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Interference (Language), Language Acquisition
Clay, Marie M. – RELC Journal, 1975
The two studies reported examine changes in the control over inflections of New Zealand children aged 5-10 years. The progress of White New Zealand children with English as their mother tongue is contrasted with the progress of urban Maori children and urban Samoan children in Auckland. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Child Language, English (Second Language), Interference (Language), Language Acquisition
Jacobson, Rodolfo – 1975
This paper reports on a study done at the University of Texas at San Antonio to examine the extent of compoundness or coordinateness with respect to the language use of Spanish-English speaking bilinguals in the Southwest. The long-range purpose was to delve into the more theoretical issue of the kinds of bilingual functioning. The discussion is…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Biculturalism, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism
Kim, Sun Hee Ok – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2005
Bilinguals sometimes report on difficulties in finding words while speaking in the first language (L1) or the second language (L2), which is frequently attributed to the negative influence of one language onto the other. This paper addresses this issue by investigating the relationship between L1 and L2 vocabulary knowledge of Korean-English…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Correlation, Vocabulary Development, Educational Environment
Perren, G. E., Ed.; Trim, J. L. M., Ed. – 1971
This collection of 52 papers in the field of applied linguistics presents ideas of diversified topics. General and specific topics in sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and language instruction are covered. Testing, teaching methods, speech problems, and the use of computers, language laboratories, radio, and television are…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Communications, Computational Linguistics
Hollomon, John W.; And Others – 1975
The purpose of this investigation was to design and test an information-eliciting question instrument in order to determine whether the structures in the verbal responses of young Mexican-American, bilingual children entering school would reveal the covert mental operations, concepts and oral language skills elicited. The basic objective was to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Cognitive Processes
