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Aylin Coskun Kunduz; Silvina Montrul – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
Aspectual and mood morphology are vulnerable domains in adult heritage speakers. This paper investigates the root of such vulnerability within the domain of Turkish evidentiality system by comparing 20 second-generation adult and 20 school-age child Turkish heritage speakers to 20 first-generation immigrants (main input providers for child…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Story Telling, Turkish, Immigrants
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Ivana Domazetoska; Helen Zhao – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2025
The present study investigates L1 and L2 English speakers' knowledge of the "wh"-clausal construction along the parameters of (a) conventionality, distinguishing between high-frequency conventional and low-frequency unconventional formulations ("I asked him why they agreed/why did they agree"), and (b) proposition type,…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Native Language, Second Language Learning, English
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Oihana Leonet; Elizabet Arocena; Eider Saragueta – Literacy, 2025
This study investigates the use of metacognitive strategies by young emergent multilingual students in a translanguaging pedagogy scenario. From a multilingual perspective, we understand metacognition as a broader concept that refers to the learning or thinking processes that encapsulate metalinguistic and crosslinguistic awareness. We focus on…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Reading Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Silvia Perez-Cortes – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
Verbal morphology has been identified as a particularly vulnerable domain for adult heritage speakers (HSs) of Spanish, especially when it involves the selection of subjunctive mood. A minimal amount is known, however, about the potential effects of the variability associated with these forms on the acquisition of related epiphenomena, such as the…
Descriptors: Spanish, Phonemes, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Wen-Min Hsieh; Hui-Chin Yeh; Nian-Shing Chen – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
Research on how the use of social robots helps improve English as Foreign Language (EFL) young learners' pronunciation and willingness to communicate (WTC) is understudied. This study developed a robot and tangible objects (R&T) learning system and examined its impact on elementary EFL learner's English pronunciation and WTC. The R&T…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis
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Anastasia Paspali; Theodoros Marinis; Artemis Alexiadou – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
The acquisition of voice in Greek remains understudied, especially in heritage populations. Voice in Greek poses a challenging acquisition task for children due to its syncretism, marking various verb classes as well as passives. The present study explores the acquisition of anticausatives, reflexives, and passives in 6-to-8-year-old monolingual…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Task Analysis, Pictorial Stimuli, Preferences