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Diaubalick, Tim; Eibensteiner, Lukas; Salaberry, M. Rafael – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Building up on studies that have revealed L2 transfer of imperfective meaning from one Romance language into another [Salaberry, M. R. (2005). Evidence for transfer of knowledge of aspect from L2 Spanish to L3 Portuguese. In D. Ayoun & R. Salaberry (Eds.), "Tense and aspect in romance languages: Theoretical and applied perspectives"…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Morphemes, German, Spanish
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Wu, Zhaohong; Juffs, Alan – Second Language Research, 2022
Previous studies on bilingual children have shown a significant correlation between first language (L1) and second language (L2) morphological awareness and a unique contribution of morphological awareness in one language to reading performance in the other language, suggesting cross-linguistic influence. However, few studies have compared…
Descriptors: Native Language, Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Correlation
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Saturno, Jacopo – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
The present paper investigates the acquisition of L3 Polish by L1 Italian university students of L2 Russian. The participants had never studied the L3 prior to the experiment, but took a meta-linguistically explicit course in Slavic Linguistics focussing on Polish/Russian contrastive grammar. The main research question is whether or not the…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Transfer of Training, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Sung, Hakyung – English Teaching, 2019
This study explores how Korean English learners process English caused-motion constructions (CMC) through online and offline experiments. The focus was on how Korean learners' processing of English CMC is affected by the typological difference between English and Korean. Of the 77 volunteer participants recruited, 17 were native English speakers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, High School Students, Second Language Learning
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Forcelini, Jamile; Sunderman, Gretchen – Hispania, 2020
When bilinguals read in either their first language (L1) or their second language (L2), words from both languages are unconsciously and automatically activated in their mind (e.g., Kroll et al. 2006; Van Heuven and Dijkstra 2002). Many bilinguals, particularly in Florida, choose to learn Portuguese in college as a third language (L3), thus…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
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Loiseau, Nathalie; Delgado Luchner, Carmen – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2021
To date, research into conference interpreting has not produced a definition of the concrete subskills associated with an A, B and C language in interpreters' combinations of working languages. Existing frameworks for performance assessment in foreign languages are not designed to cover the very advanced range of language mastery associated with…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction