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Crouch, David – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The theory underlying L2 oral fluency has focused on cognitive processes, particularly proceduralization (Anderson, 1983; Levelt, 1989, 1999) and linguistic constructs, especially vocabulary and grammar (Segalowitz, 2010). Towell, Hawkins, and Bazergui (1996) argued that development of formulaic language enables automatic speech production.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Language Fluency, Incidence
Zhou, Yalun; Wei, Michael – Online Submission, 2007
Despite individual differences, all bilinguals share the ability to act in their native language, in their second language, and to switch back and forth between the two languages they know (Van Hell, 1998). Chinese is the largest Asian American ethnic group in the United States. Their use of code-switching is an increasingly important issue in…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Language Acquisition, Case Studies, Chinese Americans