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Lightbown, Patsy Martin – Modern Language Journal, 2019
This special issue contains reports of research on a variety of variables that are hypothesized to have an impact on how practice affects language learning. This includes spacing of practice opportunities, the provision of feedback, training working memory, and oral versus written input. Each study is complex and clearly contextualized within the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Short Term Memory
Velasco, Ender – TESL-EJ, 2020
From the current available research, it is evident that further evidence is needed to understand Second Language Acquisition (SLA) processes under planned bilingualism approaches in English as a Second Language (ESL) environments. This study employs an explanatory single case strategy to investigate the oral proficiency and SLA experiences of a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Slavkov, Nikolay – Second Language Research, 2015
This article investigates spoken productions of complex questions with long-distance wh-movement in the L2 English of speakers whose first language is (Canadian) French or Bulgarian. Long-distance wh-movement is of interest as it can be argued that it poses difficulty in acquisition due to its syntactic complexity and related high processing load.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language, Linguistic Theory
Montrul, Silvina; Davidson, Justin; De La Fuente, Israel; Foote, Rebecca – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2014
We examined how age of acquisition in Spanish heritage speakers and L2 learners interacts with implicitness vs. explicitness of tasks in gender processing of canonical and non-canonical ending nouns. Twenty-three Spanish native speakers, 29 heritage speakers, and 33 proficiency-matched L2 learners completed three on-line spoken word recognition…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Nouns, Spanish
D'Amico, Melanie Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study explores the effects of short-term Spanish study in study abroad (SA) and at home (AH) contexts on oral fluency and Willingness to Communicate (WTC). Following the Input and Interaction Hypothesis and the Output Hypothesis, it is hypothesized that learners from short-term SA programs will demonstrate larger gains in fluency and WTC due…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English, Study Abroad, Second Language Learning

Ellis, Rod – TESOL Quarterly, 1998
Reviews research that addresses how grammar can best be taught in terms of four theoretically motivated instructional options: (1) structured input; (2) explicit instruction; (3) production practice; (4) negative feedback. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Feedback, Grammar, Language Research

Rondal, Jean A.; Cession, Anne – Journal of Child Language, 1990
Input language addressed to language-learning children was analyzed to assess the quality of the semantic-syntactic correspondence posited by the semantic bootstrapping hypothesis. This correspondence was strong--objects were labeled with nouns, actions with verbs, attributes with adjectives--and may serve to make children's construction of…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Linguistic Input

Tager-Flusberg, Helen; Calkins, Susan – Journal of Child Language, 1990
Naturalistic mother-child speech between autistic, Down's syndrome, or normal children and their mothers was studied to determine whether imitation facilitates grammar acquisition. Spontaneous utterances were longer and contained more advanced grammar than imitation utterances, indicating that imitation does not play a significant role in grammar…
Descriptors: Autism, Caregiver Speech, Communication (Thought Transfer), Downs Syndrome

Salaberry, M. Rafael – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1998
In response to criticism of his study of input processing and processing instruction, a relatively new concept in second language teaching, the author discusses a number of issues raised, including concepts underlying input processing, methodological concerns, instructional materials used in the study, the concept "traditional instruction," use of…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Language Processing, Language Proficiency, Language Research
Erlam, Rosemary – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
This paper reviews studies that have contrasted the effectiveness of structured-input instruction with output-based instruction. It then presents results from a study comparing the relative effects of structured-input and output-based instruction on students' ability to comprehend and produce direct object pronouns in second language French. Three…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Second Language Learning