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The Reassembly of Verbal and Nominal Morphosyntactic Features by Novice L1 English-L2 Spanish Learners
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Kara Marie Yarrington – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Adult first language (L1) English speakers who are advanced second language (L2) learners of Spanish demonstrate near-ceiling levels of accuracy for some features of Spanish, such as [Person] and [Number] for verbs (McCarthy, 2012; Rodgers, 2011). While for other features, such as [Aspect] for copulas (i.e. ser and estar), and [Person] and…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
Negotiation and Co-Construction of Learning Opportunities: A Conversation Analytic Study of Interactions in One-on-One Instructional Sessions
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Yoshiyuki Hara – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This present study closely examines a particular type of institutionalized interactions for second language (L2) learning, namely one-on-one instructional sessions between instructors and learners of Japanese at an intensive summer study abroad program in Japan. During these sessions, both instructors and learners employ various form-focused…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Teaching Methods
The Role of L1 and L2 in the Acquisition of Null Subjects by Chinese Learners of L3 Italian
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Cherici, Alessia – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This study investigates the acquisition of null subjects by Mandarin Chinese native speakers ('Chinese NSs' hereafter), with different levels of L2 English proficiency, at initial stages of L3 Italian acquisition. The aim is to find out if, when acquiring Italian null subjects, Chinese NSs resort to their L1, which, like the L3, allows null…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Transfer of Training, Italian
Authenticated Spoken Texts for L2 Listening Tests
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Wagner, Elvis; Liao, Yen-Fen; Wagner, Santoi – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
L2 test developers often use scripted spoken texts in their L2 listening tests, because it is efficient and practical to create scripted spoken texts that meet predetermined test specifications. But because scripted spoken texts differ in a number of fundamental ways from unscripted spoken language, there are potential threats to validity when…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Grammar
The Effects of Input and Output Based Instruction on the Development of L2 Explicit and Automatised Explicit Knowledge: A Classroom Based Study
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Mostafa, Tamanna; Kim, YouJin – Language Awareness, 2021
The study investigates to what extent English as a second language (ESL) learners develop explicit and automatised explicit knowledge of two target-forms (third person singular 's' and future conditional if-clause) after input and output based instruction and whether learning effects differ depending on the target forms. The study follows a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Linguistic Input, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
"From the Sound, It Look Like He Said It from the Deep in His Heart": How Do English Learners Make Judgments of Pragma-Prosodic Meaning?
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Kermad, Alyssa – TESL-EJ, 2021
Prosody communicates pragmatic meaning far beyond that which is evident at the surface level of an utterance and can pose challenges to learners' pragmatic comprehension. The current study investigated how second language (L2) English learners made decisions about speaker intent when communicated through prosody. Seventeen English L2 learners took…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction