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Mennim, Paul – Language Teaching Research, 2007
This paper reports on the effects of classroom exercises that encourage noticing and conscious attention to form, which were part of a university EFL oral presentation course in Japan. The students on the course were given a set of exercises that encouraged them to notice and to reflect on L2 forms of their own choosing throughout one academic…
Descriptors: Nouns, Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language)
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Han, ZhaoHong; Peverly, Stephen T. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2007
Research on input processing in the acquisition of a non-primary language has rested largely on the assumption that learners use a meaning-based approach as the "default" when processing input (VanPatten, 1996). The study reported here poses a challenge to this assumption: findings show that participants who were absolute beginners used a…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Linguistic Input, Language Processing, Second Language Learning
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Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Mylander, Carolyn; Franklin, Amy – Cognitive Psychology, 2007
When children learn language, they apply their language-learning skills to the linguistic input they receive. But what happens if children are not exposed to input from a conventional language? Do they engage their language-learning skills nonetheless, applying them to whatever unconventional input they have? We address this question by examining…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Linguistic Input, Sign Language, Deafness
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Blom, Elma; Polisenska, Daniela; Weerman, Fred – Second Language Research, 2008
A comparison of the error profiles of monolingual (child L1) learners of Dutch, Moroccan children (child L2) and Moroccan adults (adult L2) learning Dutch as their L2 shows that participants in all groups massively overgeneralize [-neuter] articles to [+neuter] contexts. In all groups, the reverse gender mistake infrequently occurs. Gender…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Adult Learning
Takimoto, Masahiro – TESL Canada Journal, 2008
This study involving 60 Japanese learners of English investigated the effects of various kinds of form-focused instruction on learners' ability to comprehend and produce polite requests in English. Each treatment group received one of the following: (a) deductive instruction; (b) inductive instruction with problem-solving tasks; or (c) inductive…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Bateman, Blair E. – Foreign Language Annals, 2008
Although the language teaching profession has long emphasized the use of the target language in the classroom, student teachers face various challenges in their efforts to conduct class in their target language. This case study focused on 10 student teachers with respect to (1) their initial attitudes and beliefs about using the target language,…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Student Teachers, Teacher Education, English (Second Language)
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Field, John – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2008
There is considerable evidence from psycholinguistics that first language listeners handle function words differently from content words. This makes intuitive sense because content words require the listener to access a lexical meaning representation whereas function words do not. A separate channel of processing for functors would enable them to…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Second Language Learning, Linguistic Input, Language Processing
Gardner, Dee – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2008
Fourteen collections of children's reading materials were used to investigate the claim that collections of authentic texts with a common theme, or written by one author, afford readers with more repeated exposures to new words than unrelated materials. The collections, distinguished by relative thematic tightness, authorship (1 vs. 4 authors),…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Recycling, Reading Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Miyakoshi, Tomoko – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Although it is widely acknowledged that collocations play an important part in second language learning, especially at intermediate-advanced levels, learners' difficulties with collocations have not been investigated in much detail so far. The present study examines ESL learners' use of verb-noun collocations, such as "take notes," "place an…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Pretests Posttests, Second Language Learning
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Dailey, Alex – English Journal, 2009
In this article, the author shares her experience and the lessons learned in teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) for a decade. After thousands of lessons, uncountable revisions to those lessons, numerous hours of professional development, access to dozens of talented colleagues, and an abundance of thoughts and insights from…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Berent, Gerald P.; Kelly, Ronald R.; Porter, Jeffrey E.; Fonzi, Judith – Language Learning, 2008
Deaf and hearing students' knowledge of English sentences containing universal quantifiers was compared through their performance on a 50-item, multiple-picture task that required students to decide whether each of five pictures represented a possible meaning of a target sentence. The task assessed fundamental knowledge of quantifier sentences,…
Descriptors: Sentences, Speech, Semantics, Oral Language
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Stewart, Iain A. D.; File, Portia – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2007
Early and intermediate second language (L2) learners often encounter difficulties when engaging in introductory social conversations, typically having had little opportunity to practise such interactions. This article describes a project to design and prototype a computer dialogue system, Let's Chat, which would allow learners to rehearse social…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Speech Communication, Linguistic Input, Language Processing
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Ding, Yanren – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2007
Good language learner studies show that attending to form is associated with successful learning. This paper reports interviews with three university English majors who had won prizes in nationwide English speaking competitions and debate tournaments in China. The interviewees regarded text memorization and imitation as the most effective methods…
Descriptors: Imitation, Memorization, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Input
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Ramscar, Michael; Yarlett, Daniel – Cognitive Science, 2007
In a series of studies children show increasing mastery of irregular plural forms (such as "mice") simply by producing erroneous over-regularized versions of them (such as "mouses"). We explain this phenomenon in terms of successive approximation in imitation: Children over-regularize early in acquisition because the representations of frequent,…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes, Linguistics, Feedback (Response)
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Andersen, Claire Elizabeth; Marinac, Julie V. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2007
The correlation between the communicative intent of parents, in terms of their expectation of a response and the response patterns of young children aged 23-25 months during parent-child interactions, was investigated. An Observational Framework was used to code these parameters in interactions between 36 children and their mothers. The children…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Young Children, Multivariate Analysis, Parent Child Relationship
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