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Foy, Judith G.; Mann, Virginia A. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
Neighborhood density influences adult performance on several word processing tasks. Some studies show age-related effects of density on children's performance, reflecting a developmental restructuring of the mental lexicon from holistic into segmental representations that may play a role in phonological awareness. To further investigate density…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Age Differences, Adults, Comparative Analysis
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Pulido, Diana – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2009
This study examines the nature of the involvement load (Laufer & Hulstijn, 2001) in second language (L2) lexical input processing through reading by considering the effects of the reader-based factors of L2 reading proficiency and background knowledge. The lexical input processing aspects investigated were lexical inferencing (search), attentional…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Memory, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning
Lee, Wei-Teh – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The problem: Many previous studies have pointed out that EFL learners tend to face communication breakdowns with native speakers because their traditional classroom and textbooks are not able to provide learners with sufficient pragmatically appropriate input (Bardovi-Harlig, 1996; Rose, 1994, 1997). On the contrary, they are exposed to rich input…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Sociolinguistics, Textbooks, Grammar
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Stafford, Catherine A.; Sanz, Cristina; Bowden, Harriet Wood – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2010
This research investigated Spanish-English bilingual adults' initial learning of a third language (L3), Latin, comparing the learning processes and outcomes of early- and late-onset bilinguals. Thirty-three participants were classified as Early or Late Bilinguals according to their age of arrival to the USA, and they were introduced to Latin by…
Descriptors: Adults, Second Language Instruction, Learning Processes, Teaching Methods
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Narasimhan, Bhuvana; Dimroth, Christine – Cognition, 2008
In expressing rich, multi-dimensional thought in language, speakers are influenced by a range of factors that influence the ordering of utterance constituents. A fundamental principle that guides constituent ordering in adults has to do with information status, the accessibility of referents in discourse. Typically, adults order previously…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phrase Structure, Child Language, Caregivers
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Bailes, Cynthia Neese; Erting, Lynne C.; Thumann-Prezioso, Carlene; Erting, Carol J. – Sign Language Studies, 2009
This longitudinal case study examined the language and literacy acquisition of a Deaf child as mediated by her signing Deaf parents during her first three years of life. Results indicate that the parents' interactions with their child were guided by linguistic and cultural knowledge that produced an intuitive use of child-directed signing (CDSi)…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Deafness, Cognitive Mapping, Human Body
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Turnbull, Khara Pence; Anthony, Angela Beckman; Justice, Laura; Bowles, Ryan – Early Education and Development, 2009
Research Findings: This research examined preschoolers' exposure to 6 types of language stimulation techniques (LSTs) in classrooms serving at-risk children and considered whether specific activity contexts were associated with educators' rate of use of different LSTs. Several teacher-directed and child-directed activity contexts were videotaped…
Descriptors: Stimulation, Preschool Children, At Risk Students, Preschool Teachers
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Cornips, Leonie; Hulk, Aafke – Second Language Research, 2008
The goal of this article is to examine the factors that are proposed in the literature to explain the success--failure in the child L2 (second language) acquisition of grammatical gender in Dutch definite determiners. Focusing on four different groups of bilingual children, we discuss four external success factors put forward in the literature:…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Indo European Languages, Bilingualism
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Bird, Elizabeth Kay-Raining; Cleave, Patricia L.; Curia, Joanne; Dunleavy, Michelle – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2008
In this case study, all parental talk directed to a young child with autism at home over a 3-day period was analyzed for internal state (IS) language, which explicitly focuses upon the thoughts, feelings, and perceptions of animate beings. The mother and father used IS terms in 33% and 24% of their utterances, respectively, with sensory and desire…
Descriptors: Autism, Linguistic Input, Case Studies, Parent Child Relationship
Krashen, Stephen – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2008
The recent past in language teaching has been dominated by the Skill-Building Hypothesis, the view that we learn language by first learning about it, and then practicing the rules we learned in output. The present is marked by the emergence of the Comprehension Hypothesis, the view that we acquire language when we understand messages, and is also…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Rodriguez, Astrid Sussette – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Developing literacy and language proficiency in English is essential to thrive in school and in the workforce in American society. Research on cross-linguistic influences on text-level skills is scant, especially studies investigating reading comprehension among language-minority adults. The present study investigated the effects of…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Spanish Speaking
Schenck, Andrew – Online Submission, 2010
Research suggests that characteristics of EFL input cause morphosyntactic features to be acquired in an order dissimilar to that found in ESL contexts. To determine whether acquisition order for Korean learners could be explained by characteristics of their EFL input, a Korean elementary school curriculum was analyzed. Morphosyntactic features…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Scheele, Anna F.; Leseman, Paul P. M.; Mayo, Aziza Y. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
This study investigated the relationships between home language learning activities and vocabulary in a sample of monolingual native Dutch (n = 58) and bilingual immigrant Moroccan-Dutch (n = 46) and Turkish-Dutch (n = 55) 3-year-olds, speaking Tarifit-Berber, a nonscripted language, and Turkish as their first language (L1), respectively. Despite…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Vocabulary Skills, Language Proficiency, Indo European Languages
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Chapelle, Carol A. – Modern Language Journal, 2009
The point of departure for this article is the contrast between the theoretical landscape within view of language teaching professionals in 1991 and that of today. I argue that the pragmatic goal of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) developers and researchers to create and evaluate learning opportunities pushes them to consider a variety…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Educational Technology, Social Environment
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Cardenas-Claros, Monica S.; Gruba, Paul A. – CALICO Journal, 2009
This paper is a systematic review of research investigating help options in the different language skills in computer-assisted language learning (CALL). In this review, emerging themes along with is-sues affecting help option research are identified and discussed. We argue that help options in CALL are application resources that do not only seem…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Linguistic Theory
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