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Direct linkElly Koutamanis; Gerrit Jan Kootstra; Ton Dijkstra; Sharon Unsworth – Language Learning, 2025
This study examined the influence of cognate status and language distance on simultaneous bilingual children's vocabulary acquisition. It aimed to tease apart effects of word-level similarities and language-level similarities, while also exploring the role of individual-level variation in age, exposure, and nontarget language proficiency. Children…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
Kyle Perkins; Lawrence Jun Zhang – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
The effect of first language transfer on second language acquisition and learning has been a major theoretical concept in second language research and pedagogy since the 1950s. In order to give a historical perspective, the authors offer a brief presentation of some of the major topics from the broad spectrum of issues that have been examined by…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Contrastive Linguistics
