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Direct linkMenard-Warwick, Julia – Applied Linguistics, 2022
The theoretical framework of raciolinguistics examines connections between language ideologies and racialization, but few studies have analyzed the adult learning of languages other than English. This case study is based on life history interviews with a married couple, a Black male journalist and a White female nurse, who learned Spanish as…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Languages, Spouses, African Americans
Tode, Tomoko – Applied Linguistics, 2023
This case study investigates a migrant adult's identity work in playful talk occurring spontaneously in a classroom for Literacy Education and Second Language Learning for Adults (LESLLA). Based on 12 hours of video-recorded interactions among four learners and their teacher, I identified five playful episodes. This paper focuses on two episodes…
Descriptors: Adults, Migrants, Self Concept, Play
Ke, Sihui; Koda, Keiko – Applied Linguistics, 2019
This study examined whether vocabulary knowledge is sufficient for second language (L2) word-meaning inferencing. Specifically, it investigated the role of the learner's sensitivity to a word's morphological structure (referred to 'morphological awareness' or 'MA' hereafter) as additional support that enhances multi-character word-meaning…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Morphology (Languages), Predictor Variables, Second Language Learning
Fogal, Gary G. – Applied Linguistics, 2019
Engaging a complexity theory view of learning, this study examined an atypical timescale for tracking L2 authorial voice development through the interaction of cognitive processes that inform voice construction. A microgenetic analysis of seven adult Japanese learners of English in a three-week writing course designed to help students develop…
Descriptors: Authors, Second Language Learning, Cognitive Processes, Adult Learning
Bell, Philippa K. – Applied Linguistics, 2017
Do adults learn the same syntactic second language (L2) form explicitly and implicitly simultaneously during meaning-based exposure, and does the type of learning (explicit and/or implicit) affect subsequent performance. In this study, 81 anglophones completed comprehension tasks providing incidental exposure to a semi-artificial language (English…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), German
Brown, Lucien – Applied Linguistics, 2016
This is an activity-theoretic study of agency and identity in the study abroad experiences of a Korean learner named Julie-a 50-year-old lesbian, feminist, and non-traditional student from the USA. During 6-weeks in Seoul, Julie struggled to gain participation and to define her identity in a setting that was hostile towards homosexuality. These…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Adult Learning, Study Abroad, Nontraditional Students
