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Learning Unacceptability: Repeated Exposure to Acceptable Sentences Improves Adult Learners' Recognition of Unacceptable Sentences
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Karina Tachihara; Adele E. Goldberg – Language Learning, 2025
Adults learning a new language tend to judge unconventional utterances more leniently than fluent speakers do; ratings on acceptable utterances, however, tend to align more closely with fluent speakers. This asymmetry raises a question as to whether unconventional utterances can be statistically preempted by conventional utterances for adult…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Learning, Sentences, Undergraduate Students
Improving Second Language Vowel Production with Hand Gestures Encoding Visible Articulation: Evidence from Picture-Naming and Paragraph-Reading Tasks
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Xiaotong Xi; Peng Li; Pilar Prieto – Language Learning, 2024
This study investigates whether audiovisual phonetic training with hand gestures encoding visible or nonvisible articulation features has a differential impact on learning second language sounds. Ninety-nine Catalan-Spanish bilingual students were trained to differentiate English /ae/ and /[lambda]/, which differ in the visible lip aperture and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vowels, Nonverbal Communication, Articulation (Speech)
Willingness to Communicate, Speaking Self-Efficacy, and Perceived Communicative Competence as Predictors of Second Language Spoken Task Production
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Paul Leeming; Joseph P. Vitta; Phil Hiver; Dillon Hicks; Stuart McLean; Christopher Nicklin – Language Learning, 2024
This study investigated how students' self-reported individual differences predicted second language (L2) spoken discussion task output, an objective behavioral outcome, in the Japanese university English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. Although numerous psychological theories are used as a rationale for task-based language teaching (TBLT),…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Testing the Relationship of Linguistic Complexity to Second Language Learners' Comparative Judgment on Text Difficulty
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Xiaopeng Zhang; Xiaofei Lu – Language Learning, 2024
This study examined the relationship of linguistic complexity, captured using a set of lexical richness, syntactic complexity, and discoursal complexity indices, to second language (L2) learners' perception of text difficulty, captured using L2 raters' comparative judgment on text comprehensibility and reading speed. Testing materials were 180…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Decision Making
Mixed-Effects Modeling with a Multinomial Dependent Variable
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Aarnes Gudmestad; Thomas A. Metzger – Language Learning, 2025
In this Methods Showcase Article, we illustrate mixed-effects modeling with a multinomial dependent variable as a means of explaining complexities in language. We model data on future-time reference in second language Spanish, which consists of a nominal dependent variable that has three levels, measured over 73 participants. We offer step-by-step…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Applied Linguistics, Predictor Variables
Longitudinal Development of Holistic Formulaicity, Formulaic Sequences, and Lexical Complexity in Sojourner Diaries: A Dynamic Usage-Based Perspective
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Zeynep Köylü; Nurullah Eryilmaz; Carmen Pérez-Vidal; Marjolijn Verspoor; Hana Gustafsson – Language Learning, 2024
Because of authentic exposure, study-abroad sojourners are expected to become more proficient in terms of holistic formulaicity (defined as targetlike language use of intensifiers, fillers, multiword sequences, lexical features, verb-argument constructions, pragmatic and discourse features, and so on), use of formulaic sequences, and lexical…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Language Usage, Language Proficiency, Diaries
Embodiment for Spatial Metaphors of Abstract Concepts Differs across Languages in Chinese-English Bilinguals
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Yu Fen Wei; Wen Wen Yang; Gary Oppenheim; Jie Hui Hu; Guillaume Thierry – Language Learning, 2024
Embodied cognition posits that processing concepts requires sensorimotor activation. Previous research has shown that perceived power is spatially embodied along the vertical axis. However, it is unclear whether such mapping applies equally in the two languages of bilinguals. Using event-related potentials, we compared spatial embodiment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Bilingual Students, Chinese
Rethinking First Language-Second Language Similarities and Differences in English Proficiency: Insights from the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) Project
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Noam Siegelman; Irina Elgort; Marc Brysbaert; Niket Agrawal; Simona Amenta; Jasmina Arsenijevic Mijalkovic; Christine S. Chang; Daria Chernova; Fabienne Chetail; A. J. Benjamin Clarke; Alain Content; Davide Crepaldi; Nastag Davaabold; Shurentsetseg Delgersuren; Avital Deutsch; Veronika Dibrova; Denis Drieghe; Dušica Filipovic Ðurdevic; Brittany Finch; Ram Frost; Carolina A. Gattei; Esther Geva; Aline Godfroid; Lindsay Griener; Esteban Hernández-Rivera; Anastasia Ivanenko; Juhani Järvikivi; Lea Kawaletz; Anurag Khare; Jun Ren Lee; Charlotte E. Lee; Christina Manouilidou; Marco Marelli; Timur Mashanlo; Ksenija Mišic; Koji Miwa; Pauline Palma; Ingo Plag; Zoya Rezanova; Enkhzaya Riimed; Jay Rueckl; Sascha Schroeder; Irina A. Sekerina; Diego E. Shalom; Natalia Slioussar; Neža Marija Slosar; Vanessa Taler; Kim Thériault; Debra Titone; Odonchimeg Tumee; Ross van de Wetering; Ark Verma; Anna Fiona Weiss; Denise Hsien Wu; Victor Kuperman – Language Learning, 2024
This article presents the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) project that offers data on English reading and listening comprehension from 7,338 university-level advanced learners and native speakers of English representing 19 countries. The database also includes estimates of reading rate and seven component skills of English, including vocabulary,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
Does Studying Latin in Secondary Education Predict Study Achievement in Academic Higher Education?
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Cathy Hauspie; Stijn Schelfhout; Nicolas Dirix; Lot Fonteyne; Mark Janse; Arnaud Szmalec; Alexandra Vereeck; Wouter Duyck – Language Learning, 2024
Studying Latin in secondary education is still widespread in Europe and believed to result in cognitive benefits, even beyond the linguistic domain. In this study we explored the relation between such study and later academic achievement in higher education (N = 1,898). First, we demonstrated that Latin students exhibit increased levels of study…
Descriptors: Latin, Second Language Learning, Secondary Education, Higher Education
Crosslinguistic Differences in Food Labels Do Not Yield Differences in Taste Perception
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Emanuel Bylund; Steven Samuel; Panos Athanasopoulos – Language Learning, 2024
Research has shown that speakers of different languages may differ in their cognitive and perceptual processing of reality. A common denominator of this line of investigation has been its reliance on the sensory domain of vision. The aim of our study was to extend the scope to a new sense-taste. Using as a starting point crosslinguistic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Classification, Language Processing
Do Implicit Learning Deficit and Dyslexia Go Together? An fMRI and Behavioral Study
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Marta Wójcik; Joanna Beck; Katarzyna Chyl; Agnieszka Dynak; Gabriela Dziegiel-Fivet; Magdalena Luniewska; Anna Grabowska; Katarzyna Jednoróg; Agnieszka Debska – Language Learning, 2024
What is the relationship between literacy skills and implicit learning? To address previous mixed findings, we compared school-aged readers, typical (CON, n = 54) and with dyslexia (DYS, n = 53), in relation to their performance on a serial reaction time task. For the first time, we also included an isolated spelling deficit group (ISD, n = 30) to…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Dyslexia, Literacy, Learning
Signature Dynamics of Development in Second Language Sociolinguistic Competence: Evidence from an Intensive Microlongitudinal Study
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Mason A. Wirtz; Simone E. Pfenninger – Language Learning, 2024
This study is the first to explore microdevelopment in sociolinguistic evaluative judgments of standard German and Austro-Bavarian dialect by adult second language learners of German by using dense time serial measurements. Intensive longitudinal data (10 observations per participant) were collected from four learners at approximately weekly…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Sociolinguistics, German, Time
Developing Second Language Mandarin Fluency through Pedagogic Intervention and Study Abroad: Planning Time, Speech Rate, and Response Duration
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Jiayi Wang; Nicola Halenko – Language Learning, 2024
This longitudinal study examines the effects of a pre-study abroad (SA) pedagogic intervention and subsequent SA experience on second language (L2) Mandarin fluency. It explores two temporal aspects of oral fluency--planning time and speech rate--along with one performance measure, duration of response. Additionally, L2 contact data were included…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning
Benefits of Testing and Production for Learning Turkish as a New Language
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Maya C. Rose; Patricia J. Brooks; Arshia K. Lodhi; Angela Cortez – Language Learning, 2024
This study examined putative benefits of testing and production for learning new languages. Undergraduates (N = 156) were exposed to Turkish spoken dialogues under varying learning conditions (retrieval practice, comprehension, verbal repetition) in a computer-assisted language learning session. Participants completed pre- and posttests of number-…
Descriptors: Turkish, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Computer Assisted Instruction
Classroom Instruction during Study Abroad: A Comparative Exploration of Chinese Second Language Acquisition
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Junming Chen; Martin Howard – Language Learning, 2024
Exploring the underinvestigated area of instruction during study abroad, this article offers a quantitative study of linguistic development among second language university learners of Chinese during a semester in China. A comparison is made between learners following task-based language teaching and a comparison group following a traditional…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
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