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Montrul, Silvina; Yoon, James – Second Language Research, 2009
Seeing the logical problem of second language acquisition as that of primarily selecting and re-assembling bundles of features anew, Lardiere proposes to dispense with the deductive learning approach and its broad range of consequences subsumed under the concept of parameters. While we agree that feature assembly captures more precisely the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grammar, Semantics, Cognitive Mapping
Austin, Alison C. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
When linguistic input provides inconsistent evidence for grammatical structures, children tend to regularize. For example, children learning languages from parents who are imperfect users of the language regularize their parents' inconsistent usages (Singleton & Newport, 2004). Previous studies (Hudson Kam & Newport, 2005, 2009) have examined this…
Descriptors: Evidence, Sentences, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Freudenthal, Daniel: Pine, Julian; Gobet, Fernando – Journal of Child Language, 2010
In this study, we use corpus analysis and computational modelling techniques to compare two recent accounts of the OI stage: Legate & Yang's (2007) Variational Learning Model and Freudenthal, Pine & Gobet's (2006) Model of Syntax Acquisition in Children. We first assess the extent to which each of these accounts can explain the level of OI errors…
Descriptors: Verbs, Syntax, Error Analysis (Language), Child Language
Mordaunt, Owen G.; Olson, Daniel W. – Educational Studies, 2010
Listening comprehension input is necessary for language learning and acculturation. One approach to developing listening comprehension skills is through exposure to massive amounts of naturally occurring spoken language input. But exposure to this input is not enough; learners also need to make the comprehension corpus meaningful to their learning…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Listening Comprehension, Speech, Oral Language
Field, John – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2008
Any on-line processing that takes place while an utterance is unfolding is extremely tentative, with early-formed hypotheses having to be revised as the utterance proceeds. The hypotheses in question relate not only to the words that are present but also to where their boundaries fall. This study examines how first and second language listeners…
Descriptors: Listening Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Task Analysis
Kovacs, Gabor; Racsmany, Mihaly – Language Learning, 2008
This article reports on an experiment comparing the effects of three discrete types of deviance from native language (L1) phonetics and phonology on verbal short-term memory performance. A nonword repetition task was used to measure the recall of four stimulus types: (a) high-probability L1-sounding nonwords, (b) low-probability L1-sounding…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Short Term Memory, Memorization, Linguistic Input
Munoz, Carmen – Applied Linguistics, 2008
The effects of age on second language acquisition constitute one of the most frequently researched and debated topics in the field of Second Language Acquisition. Two different orientations may be distinguished in age-related research: one which aims to elucidate the existence and characteristics of maturational constraints on the human capacity…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Educational Policy, Language Research, Second Language Learning
Quiroz, Blanca; Dixon, L. Quentin – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2012
Research indicates that mothers scaffold the literacy skills of their children when jointly engaged in literacy-related activities in monolingual families (Tamis-LeMonda et al., 2001). Yet little is known about the linguistic environment of English language learners in the USA, a group at high risk for reading difficulties if they are only taught…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Mothers, Educational Objectives, Parent Child Relationship
Hastings, Sally O. – International Journal of Listening, 2009
This paper argues that the concept of E-Prime (E') holds practical benefits to effective listening for students of interpersonal communication. In advancing this argument, the paper includes a concise review of relevant literature on E-Prime, defensiveness, and conflict, with particular emphasis on verbal aggression. The literature demonstrates…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Listening Skills, Conflict, Verbal Communication
Ozcaliskan, Seyda; Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Gentner, Dedre; Mylander, Carolyn – Cognition, 2009
Commenting on perceptual similarities between objects stands out as an important linguistic achievement, one that may pave the way towards noticing and commenting on more abstract relational commonalities between objects. To explore whether having a conventional linguistic system is necessary for children to comment on different types of…
Descriptors: Speech, Linguistics, Sign Language, Oral Language
Salcedo, Diana M. – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2010
This article, the first of two, presents the introduction, context, and analysis of professor experiences in an on-going research project for implementing a new educational model in a bilingual teacher's college in Bogotá, Colombia. The model, the sheltered instruction observation protocol (SIOP) promotes eight components for a bilingual education…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Teaching Methods, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
Ferguson, Heather J.; Scheepers, Christoph; Sanford, Anthony J. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
During language comprehension, information about the world is exchanged and processed. Two essential ingredients of everyday cognition that are employed during language comprehension are the ability to reason counterfactually, and the ability to understand and predict other peoples' behaviour by attributing independent mental states to them…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Linguistic Input, Eye Movements, Beliefs
Horst, Marlise – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2010
Opportunities for incidental vocabulary acquisition were explored in a 121,000-word corpus of teacher talk addressed to advanced adult learners of English as a second language (ESL) in a communicatively-oriented conversation class. In contrast to previous studies that relied on short excerpts, the corpus contained all of the teacher speech the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Vocabulary Development, Incidental Learning
Pancsofar, Nadya; Vernon-Feagans, Lynne; Odom, Erica; Roe, Jacqueline R. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2008
Very little previous research has considered the contributions of family relationships and interactions on the language input of mothers and fathers to their young children. This study examined the contributions of marital love and conflict, and broader family-level conflict, cohesion, and expressiveness to mother and father vocabulary in triadic…
Descriptors: Mothers, Mother Attitudes, Conflict, Intimacy
Yuan, Boping – Second Language Research, 2010
Most studies in the second language (L2) literature that deal with interface issues do so in holistic terms. On the one hand, researchers have suggested that interface relations between the syntax and other domains are particularly difficult for adult L2 learners. On the other, it has been argued that such relations can be established in a…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Researchers, Second Language Learning