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Muhinyi, Amber; Hesketh, Anne – First Language, 2017
Recent research suggests that caregiver-child extratextual talk during shared book reading facilitates the development of preschool children's oral language skills. This study investigated the effects of the amount of picturebook text on mother-child extratextual talk during shared book reading. Twenty-four mother-child dyads (children aged…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Video Technology
Saito, Kazuya; Hanzawa, Keiko – Language Teaching Research, 2018
The current project longitudinally investigated the extent to which first-year Japanese university students developed their second language (L2) oral ability in relation to increased input in foreign language classrooms. Their spontaneous speech was elicited at the beginning, middle and end of one academic year, and then judged by linguistically…
Descriptors: Role, Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Phonemes
Pearl, Lisa – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2017
Generative approaches to language have long recognized the natural link between theories of knowledge representation and theories of knowledge acquisition. The basic idea is that the knowledge representations provided by Universal Grammar enable children to acquire language as reliably as they do because these representations highlight the…
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Computational Linguistics
Phillips, Beth M.; Zhao, Yuting; Weekley, M. Jane – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: This study reports initial descriptive and validity results of a new early childhood classroom observation measure, the Classroom Language Environment Observation Scales (CLEOS), designed to capture teachers' use of both implicit language supports (e.g., incidental scaffolding and shared reading) and more explicit language…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Correlation, Linguistic Input, Language Usage
Barnes, Erica M.; Dickinson, David K. – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: This study examines lexical- and sentence-level dimensions of academic language to describe teachers' natural use of academic language and its association with vocabulary growth in 489 at-risk 4-year-olds enrolled in Head Start preschool classrooms. Using transcripts derived from video recordings of book-reading sessions in 52…
Descriptors: Correlation, Language Usage, Vocabulary Development, Receptive Language
Rinker, Tanja; Budde-Spengler, Nora; Sachse, Steffi – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
Lexical development in first language (L1) Turkish and second language (L2) German in two- to three-year-old children was examined, using parental vocabulary checklists in Turkish and in German. Children showed strong Turkish dominance in the number of lexical items they produced, which was due to the more frequent exposure to Turkish and higher…
Descriptors: Correlation, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Skills
Slavkov, Nikolay – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2017
This article reports on a survey with 170 school-age children growing up with two or more languages in the Canadian province of Ontario where English is the majority language, French is a minority language, and numerous other minority languages may be spoken by immigrant or Indigenous residents. Within this context the study focuses on minority…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Language Usage, Bilingualism, Multilingualism
De Wilde, Vanessa; Eyckmans, June – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
In this paper the incidental language acquisition of 11-year-old Flemish children (n = 30) who have not received any formal English instruction is investigated. The study looks into children's English proficiency and the learner characteristics that can be associated with it. In order to measure the children's English proficiency, a receptive…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Linguistic Input, Native Language
Cohen, Cathy – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016
The input factors that may cause variation in bilingual proficiency were investigated in 38 French-English bilinguals aged six to eight, of middle-to-high socio-economic status, attending an international state school in France. Data on children's current and cumulative language exposure and family background were collected through questionnaires…
Descriptors: Young Children, Bilingual Students, French, English
Mohammadi, Ali Mohammad; Nejadansari, Dariush; Youhanaee, Manijeh – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2015
Discourse markers (DMs) assist and persuade EFL classroom interlocutors to monitor their discourse production and comprehension process. This exploratory research investigated the index of pragmatic use (IPU), rate of use, frequency, and the pragmatic functions of "well" in Iranian university EFL teachers' and learners' classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Slavkov, Nikolay – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2015
This paper reports on a case study of a child raised in the context of bilingual first-language acquisition in English and Bulgarian, where the latter represents a minority (heritage) language. Using diary data and spontaneous speech recordings, the study identifies a period of loss of production in Bulgarian (1;7-2;3) and a subsequent…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Bilingualism, Child Rearing, Linguistic Input
Björklund, Siv; Mård-Miettinen, Karita; Savijärvi, Marjo – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
Immersion education in Finland is a one-way (monolingual) early total Swedish programme for Finnish-speaking students. This immersion provision is offered at kindergarten level (ages 3-5), at preschool (age 6) and at primary levels (grades 1-9). Here, a brief synthesis of Finnish research studies on the early years in Swedish immersion is first…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Swedish, Immersion Programs
Navracsics, Judit – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
According to the critical period hypothesis, the earlier the acquisition of a second language starts, the better. Owing to the plasticity of the brain, up until a certain age a second language can be acquired successfully according to this view. Early second language learners are commonly said to have an advantage over later ones especially in…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, Developmental Stages
Kline, Melissa; Demuth, Katherine – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2010
Researchers have long debated the mechanisms underlying the learning of syntactic structure. Of significant interest has been the fact that passive constructions appear to be learned earlier in Sesotho than English. This paper provides a comprehensive, quantitative analysis of the passive input Sesotho-speaking children hear, how it differs from…
Descriptors: Syntax, Morphemes, Learning Processes, African Languages
Singman, Cooper – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of social media language learning activities with traditional language learning activities on the development of L2 grammatical competence in two English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classes at a Taiwanese university. The study was grounded in four bodies of knowledge: (a) the…
Descriptors: Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Usage