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Language Dominance and Multilingual Word Learning
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de Diego-Lázaro, Beatriz – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Studies on multilingual word learning have focused on identifying a bilingual advantage over monolingual peers, paying little attention to the relationships between bilinguals' existing vocabulary size and novel word learning. This study compared monolingual and bilingual school-age children on word learning tasks in familiar and unfamiliar…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
Developmental Stages in Chinese: The Case of Chinese Heritage Speakers
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Xian Zhang – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
The Topic Hypothesis posits that Chinese language learners progress through a developmental sequence comprising five stages (Gao, 2009; Wang, 2011), which includes the Object-Subject-Verb (OSV) structure at stage 4 and the ba-construct at stage 5. According to this hypothesis, learners typically master the OSV structure before acquiring the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Heritage Education, Linguistic Theory, Learning Processes
The Role of Crosslinguistic Influence in Multilingual Processing: Lexicon versus Syntax
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Lago, Sol; Mosca, Michela; Stutter Garcia, Anna – Language Learning, 2021
Multilingual research could offer a unique perspective on how the languages already acquired by a person affect the online processing of a new language. But it is currently difficult to assess this issue because theoretical accounts of multilingualism have focused on acquisition rather than processing and most empirical research to date has…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Prediction
Building Identity and Authenticity: Exploring the Spatiotemporal Aspects of Language Teaching in a Mariachi Class
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M. Sidury Christiansen – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
This article investigates the language practices of a bilingual mariachi instructor teaching mariachi music to Latinx English dominant students. This ethnographic study draws on the concept of chronotope (Bakhtin 1981) to explore the spatiotemporal aspects of learning, particularly in terms of the teachers' selective use of language correction…
Descriptors: Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Novel Word Learning among Bilinguals Can Be Better through the (Dominant) First Language than through the Second Language
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Hirosh, Zoya; Degani, Tamar – Language Learning, 2021
When learning novel vocabulary in a third language (L3) through translations in the first language (L1), bilinguals may have more available cognitive resources and more accumulated experience in language regulation compared to when learning through translations in the second language (L2). In a study designed to test language of instruction (LOI)…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Native Language, German, Vocabulary Development
Different Effects of L1 and L2 Phonology on L3 Lexical Learning: An ERP Study
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Mulík, Stanislav; Carrasco-Ortiz, Haydée – Second Language Research, 2023
This study investigated the influence of phonological word representations from both first language (L1) and second language (L2) on third language (L3) lexical learning in L1-dominant Spanish-English bilinguals. More specifically, we used event-related potentials (ERPs) to determine whether L1 Spanish and L2 English phonology modulates…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)