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Michelle M. Dutton – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative study explores the roles that undergraduate Spanish as a second language (L2) learners ascribe to their identities, backgrounds, sociocultural contexts, and imaginations in the development of their ideal second language (L2) selves (Dornyei 2009), rooted L2 selves (MacIntyre et al., 2017) and investment (Darvin & Norton, 2015;…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Undergraduate Students, Academic Persistence
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Sara M. Beaudrie; Anna Marrero-Rivera – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
Research on Spanish heritage language (SHL) education has grown exponentially in the last two decades. The most recent nationwide study on SHL programs in US postsecondary institutions was conducted a decade ago. To continue this line of research, the primary aim of this study is to provide an update about the current state of SHL course offerings…
Descriptors: Language Research, Native Language, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Staples, Shelley; Gray, Bethany; Biber, Douglas; Egbert, Jesse – Applied Linguistics, 2023
Grammatical complexity has been established as a key indicator of language and writing development (Ortega 2003; Bulté and Housen, 2014; Crossley and McNamara 2014). The present study uses the Register-Functional approach to complexity (Biber et al. 2022) to compare the development of L1 English and L2 English writers across year of study and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Skills, Grammar
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Zhiliang Yue; Sugunya Ruangjaroon – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
This study aims to provide a comprehensive profile of collocational competence, a key component of one's overall linguistic competence. For the maximum of ecological validity, we elicited naturalistic oral/written production data from 84 Chinese intermediate EFL learners and performed a 2×2 fashion of analysis on their performance in each of the…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Junlan Pan; Emma Marsden – Language Testing, 2024
"Tests of Aptitude for Language Learning" (TALL) is an openly accessible internet-based battery to measure the multifaceted construct of foreign language aptitude, using language domain-specific instruments and L1-sensitive instructions and stimuli. This brief report introduces the components of this theory-informed battery and…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Aptitude Tests, Second Language Learning, Test Construction
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de la Fuente, María J.; Goldenberg, Carola – Language Teaching Research, 2022
This study investigated whether second language (L2) classroom instruction that incorporates a principled approach into the use of the first language (L1) by students and instructors has an effect on beginning learners' development of L2 speaking and writing proficiency, compared to L2-only instruction, over the course of one semester.…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Role, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition
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Chanikarn Thatchatham; Nattama Pongpairoj – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
This study investigated how input frequency (i.e., type frequency and token frequency) and proficiency levels enhanced the perception of English nominal suffixes by first language (L1) Thai learners. Based on the Usage-based Account (Tomasello, 2003), it was hypothesized that input frequency, i.e., token frequency (frequency of derived forms…
Descriptors: Thai, Native Language, Language Proficiency, Linguistic Input
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Chen Ding; Barry Lee Reynolds; Xuan Van Ha – Language Learning Journal, 2024
This qualitative study explored the perceptions of EFL students at a Chinese university regarding collocation learning. The participating students were provided with a collocation instruction and practice component over ten weeks within a regular one-semester EFL course. The participants were 15 Chinese first-year non-English major students. The…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Willem B. Hollmann; Kazuko Fujimoto; Masahiro Kuroda – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2024
Modifying and hedging one's claims appropriately is an important characteristic of academic writing. This study focuses on the three main English modal verbs used to express "epistemic possibility" to avoid making strong statements, viz., "may", "might", and "could". The purpose of this corpus-based study is…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Verbs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Arkadiusz Rojczyk; Pavel Sturm; Joanna Przedlacka – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
Phonetic imitation is a ubiquitous process in speech production. Speakers have a strong tendency to imitate their interlocutors both in a native and a non-native language. It is especially important in acquiring non-native speech, because it allows forming new sound categories. In the current study we investigated whether and to what extent Polish…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonemes, Language Variation, Polish
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Sihan Zhou; Nathan Thomas – Language and Education, 2025
English-medium instruction (EMI) has burgeoned alongside two decades of L2 self-regulated learning research. In both areas, listening remains under-researched, longitudinal designs are under-employed, and in-depth studies are necessary to unpack learner development. In a context believed to initiate self-regulated learning, the current study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Qin Luo; Wulin Ma – SAGE Open, 2024
In order to facilitate the instruction and acquisition of EFL writing, this paper compares the uses of the light verb "get" in English writing by Chinese and L1 undergraduates by drawing on insights from the theory of norms and exploitations (TNE). Corpus pattern analysis (CPA) is conducted to analyze the data taken from two comparable…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Semantics
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Gao, Fei; Wang, Jianqin; Zhao, Cecilia Guanfang; Yuan, Zhen – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The present study used a repetition priming paradigm to investigate the basic morphological units stored in mental lexicon for Chinese as second language learners (L2) and Chinese native speakers (L1). Meanwhile, the modulation of Chinese morpheme property (bound or free) in lexical processing was examined. The results revealed that for…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Language Processing
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Janusik, Laura Ann; Varner, Teri – International Journal of Listening, 2022
Research in metacognitive listening strategies in first language (L[superscript 1]) listening is in its infancy. The research presented here, which is the first study in a larger research program, compares the strategies L[superscript 1] students in the US say they do in the classroom with the strategies L[superscript 2] students say they use, as…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Listening Comprehension
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Haruka Sophia Iwao; Sally Andrews; Aaron Veldre – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
Evidence of sensitivity to graphotactic and morphological patterns in English spelling has been extensively examined in monolinguals. Comparatively few studies have examined bilinguals' sensitivity to spelling regularities. The present study compared late Chinese-English bilinguals and English monolinguals on their sensitivity to systematic…
Descriptors: Spelling, Morphology (Languages), Monolingualism, Bilingualism
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