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Revathy B. R. – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2024
This paper explores the adoption of the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach in primary classrooms, emphasizing that language acquisition is best achieved through meaningful communication rather than rote memorization. Drawing on Krashen's Input Hypothesis and Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory, the study highlights the importance of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Yu-An Lu; Cheng-Huan Lee – Second Language Research, 2024
This article provides a review of previous studies that have examined the effects of orthography on establishing contrastive phonological representations in second language acquisition and presents results from an original study on Mandarin speakers' production of English stops investigating how the presence of orthography affects the production…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Speech Communication, Contrastive Linguistics, Written Language
Maaly Al Omary – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Arabic emphasis refers to the production of consonants resulting from a primary constriction in the dental or alveolar region and a secondary constriction in the back of the vocal tract, recognized as 'Emphatic.' These have contrastive consonants produced in the dental or alveolar region, recognized as 'Plain.' The existing research on emphasis in…
Descriptors: Arabic, Phonemes, Pronunciation, Speech Communication
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Ahmet Çekiç – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Despite increasing number of studies on incidental vocabulary learning through viewing in a foreign language, glosses, which have been proven to have facilitative effects in incidental vocabulary learning via other modes of input, have remained underexplored in audiovisual input. The current study investigates the effects of (1) traditional gloss…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Linguistic Input, Audiovisual Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Estela Ene; Thomas A. Upton – CALICO Journal, 2024
Teacher-moderated online chats are a common option for conducting writing conferences with students. The efficacy of chat sessions is impacted by the expectations for and structure of these sessions. This corpus-based study used a move analysis to determine the purposes and organization of 129 chats between 3 experienced teachers and 106 students…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Computer Mediated Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Havron, Naomi; Babineau, Mireille; Fiévet, Anne-Caroline; de Carvalho, Alex; Christophe, Anne – Language Learning, 2021
A previous study has shown that children use recent input to adapt their syntactic predictions and use these adapted predictions to infer the meaning of novel words. In the current study, we investigated whether children could use this mechanism to disambiguate words whose interpretation as a noun or a verb is ambiguous. We tested 2- to 4-year-old…
Descriptors: Syntax, Prediction, Linguistic Input, Inferences
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Riches, Nick – First Language, 2020
Short term memory (STM) and working memory (WM) performance consistently predict language abilities in children with developmental language disorders. However, causality is not fully established. Moreover, evidence from the fine-grained analysis of STM/WM tasks and comprehension of complex sentences, suggests that long term memory (LTM)…
Descriptors: Syntax, Verbal Ability, Short Term Memory, Language Skills
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Shi, Rushen; Legrand, Camille; Brandenberger, Anna – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2020
Previous research suggests that toddlers can rely on distributional cues in the input to track adjacent and nonadjacent grammatical dependencies. It remains unclear whether toddlers understand the hierarchical phrase structures that determine the corresponding grammatical dependencies. We addressed this question by testing toddlers on two…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Cues, Linguistic Input, Grammar
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Heil, Jeanne; López, Luis – Second Language Research, 2020
This article provides a Poverty of Stimulus argument for the participation of a dedicated linguistic module in second language acquisition. We study the second language (L2) acquisition of a subset of English infinitive complements that exhibit the following properties: (a) they present an intricate web of grammatical constraints while (b) they…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Computational Linguistics, Grammar
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Taverna, Andrea S.; Waxman, Sandra R. – Journal of Child Language, 2020
This research brings new evidence on early lexical acquisition in Wichi, an under-studied indigenous language in which verbs occupy a privileged position in the input and in conjunction with nouns are characterized by a complex and rich morphology. Focusing on infants ranging from one- to three-year-olds, we analyzed the parental report of…
Descriptors: Verbs, Vocabulary Development, Linguistic Input, Nouns
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Iacozza, Sara; Meyer, Antje S.; Lev-Ari, Shiri – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
An important issue in theories of word learning is how abstract or context-specific representations of novel words are. One aspect of this broad issue is how well learners maintain information about the source of novel words. We investigated whether listeners' source memory was better for words learned from members of their in-group (students of…
Descriptors: Bias, Vocabulary Development, College Students, Social Influences
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de la Cruz-Pavía, Irene; Elordieta, Gorka; Villegas, Julián; Gervain, Judit; Laka, Itziar – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
In two artificial language learning experiments with four groups of highly proficient Basque-Spanish bilinguals and two groups of Spanish monolinguals, we examine the cues that allow adult listeners to parse new input into phrases. In addition, we investigate which factors lead bilinguals to switch between the segmentation strategies…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Native Language, Language Minorities, Languages
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Paradowski, Michal B.; Cierpich-Koziel, Agnieszka; Chen, Chih-Chun; Ochab, Jeremi K. – Modern Language Journal, 2022
This data-driven study framed in the interactionist approach investigates the influence of social graph topology and peer interaction dynamics among foreign exchange students enrolled in an intensive German language course on second language acquisition (SLA) outcomes. Applying the algorithms and metrics of computational social network analysis…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Social Networks, Network Analysis, German
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Shin, Gyu-Ho; Jung, Boo Kyung – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2022
Studies on the role of input in L2 acquisition often estimate L2 input properties through L1 corpora and focus on L2-English. This study probes the initial stage of L2-Korean learning for adult English-speaking beginners of Korean to investigate input-output relations in the acquisition of L2 that is typologically different from English in a more…
Descriptors: Role, Linguistic Input, Korean, Textbooks
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Porter, Alison; Graham, Suzanne; Myles, Florence; Holmes, Bernardette – Language Learning Journal, 2022
In this opinion piece we problematise foreign language (FL) learning curricula which are rigidly based on carefully sequenced input and constrained learning opportunities. Whilst an important component in language learning, language knowledge constitutes more than phonics vocabulary and grammar. Our stance is premised on the understanding that,…
Descriptors: Creativity, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Processes
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