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VanPatten, Bill; Oikkenon, Soile – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1996
Attempts to determine whether or not explicit information given to second-language learners receiving processing instruction is responsible for the beneficial effects of instruction. Results indicate that these beneficial effects derived from the structured input activities and not from the explicit explanation provided to learners. (22…
Descriptors: Feedback, Grammar, High School Students, Language Processing
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Martinez, Ivelisse M.; Shatz, Marilyn – Journal of Child Language, 1996
Tested preschool monolingual speakers of Spanish and English in their native countries on classification of familiar objects through a task assessing strategies in a free sort, a sort with instructions to use natural gender, and one for the Spanish speakers with instructions to use grammatical gender. Results suggest that instructional context and…
Descriptors: Classification, Context Effect, Contrastive Linguistics, English
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Pearson, Barbara Z.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1997
Examined the strength of the association between language exposure estimates and vocabulary learning for simultaneous bilingual infants with differing patterns of exposure to the languages being learned. Findings revealed that the correlation was strong, even for children whose language environments changed by more than 20% between observations.…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Bilingualism, Child Language, Correlation
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Tager-Flusberg, Helen; Calkins, Susan – Journal of Child Language, 1990
Naturalistic mother-child speech between autistic, Down's syndrome, or normal children and their mothers was studied to determine whether imitation facilitates grammar acquisition. Spontaneous utterances were longer and contained more advanced grammar than imitation utterances, indicating that imitation does not play a significant role in grammar…
Descriptors: Autism, Caregiver Speech, Communication (Thought Transfer), Downs Syndrome
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Heafford, Michael – Language Learning Journal, 1993
Attempts to clarify the role of grammar in second-language instruction. It is suggested that changes in language teaching have encouraged the view that grammar is one of several dimensions along which learners need to progress to achieve greater proficiency but that it should not be dominant. (22 references) (CK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Course Organization, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Dornyei, Zoltan; Thurrell, Sarah – ELT Journal, 1994
Topics for conversation courses include conversational rules and structure, conversational strategies, functions and meaning in conversation, and social and cultural contexts. The direct teaching of conversational skills involves adding specific language input, increasing the role of consciousness raising, and sequencing communicative tasks…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses, Course Content, Course Descriptions
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Hoff-Ginsberg, Erika; Naigles, Letitia R. – Journal of Child Language, 1998
A study investigated the extent to which the nature of verb input accounts for the order in which children acquire verbs. Subjects were 57 mothers and their Stage I children. Results suggest that the effect of syntactic diversity in input supports the "syntactic bootstrapping" account of how children use structural information to learn new verbs'…
Descriptors: Child Language, Interpersonal Communication, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
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Wigglesworth, Gillian – Prospect, 1997
Investigates effect of task type on resultant candidate discourse and input of the interlocutor. The experimental design ensured an information gap in one of the interview tasks for prospective immigrants to Australia. Findings indicate that candidate discourse differs in quantity and quality between situations when an information gap exists and…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Feedback, Foreign Countries
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Shook, David J. – Applied Language Learning, 1999
Provides information regarding the input-to-intake phenomenon by exploring data that were gathered but not analyzed in Shook (1994): reading recalls produced by subjects after reading the input passages. Two levels of Spanish students read reading passages containing one of two different target items under one of three different attention…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Language Tests, Linguistic Input
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DeKeyser, Robert M.; Sokalski, Karl J. – Language Learning, 2001
Examined the differential role of comprehension and production practice in second language learning. Discusses the results of a study of 82 first-year students of Spanish as a second language that indicated that relative effectiveness of production versus comprehension practice depended on the morphosyntactic complexity of the structure in…
Descriptors: Class Activities, College Students, Grammar, Higher Education
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Gaser, Michael; Smith, Linda B. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1998
Proposes an alternative account of the child's learning of nouns and adjectives that relies on properties of the semantic categories to be learned and of the word-learning task itself. In five experiments, a simple connectionist network was trained to label input objects in particular contexts; the network learned categories resembling nouns…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
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Cheng, An Chung – Hispania, 2002
This study compares the relative effects of two types of instruction, processing instruction and traditional instruction, on the acquisition of the verbs "ser" and "estar" with adjectives and past participles. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Grammar, Higher Education
Alcon, Eva – IRAL, 1998
Analyzes second-language learners' processing of linguistic data within the target language, focusing on input and intake in second-language acquisition and factors and cognitive processes that affect input processing. Input factors include input simplification, input enhancement, and interactional modifications. Individual learner differences…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Individual Differences, Interaction
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Seferolu, Glge – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2005
This study aimed to find out whether integrating accent reduction software in advanced English language classes at the university level would result in improvements in students pronunciation at the segmental and sup-rasegmental levels. The study made use of a quasi-experimental research design. Two classes at the Department of Foreign Language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Design, Linguistic Input, Experimental Groups
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Helms-Park, Rena – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
This paper presents a study that attributes verb serialization in the interlanguage of Vietnamese-speaking ESL learners to language transfer and, furthermore, puts forward the view that such transfer bears a resemblance to substrate influence in creoles with serial verb constructions (SVCs). In a task that elicited English causatives through…
Descriptors: Creoles, Verbs, Interlanguage, Linguistic Input
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