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Saito, Kazuya – Language Learning, 2015
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of second language (L2) experience--operationalized as length of residence (LOR) in Canada--on late Japanese learners of English. Data collected from 65 participants consisted of three groups of learners (short-, mid-, and long-LOR groups) and two baseline groups of native Japanese and native…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Japanese
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Blom, Elma; Paradis, Johanne; Duncan, Tamara Sorenson – Language Learning, 2012
This study was designed to investigate the development of third-person singular (3SG) -"s" in children who learn English as a second language (L2). Adopting the usage-based perspective on the learning of inflection, we analyzed spontaneous speech samples collected from 15 English L2 children who were followed over a 2-year period.…
Descriptors: Speech, Morphemes, Word Frequency, Linguistic Input
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Jang, Eunice Eunhee; Dunlop, Maggie; Wagner, Maryam; Kim, Youn-Hee; Gu, Zhimei – Language Learning, 2013
The study examined differences in reading achievement and mastery skill development among Grade-6 students with different language background profiles, using cognitive diagnosis modeling applied to large-scale provincial reading test performance data. Our analyses revealed that students residing in various home language environments show different…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Reading Achievement, Immigrants, Elementary School Students
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Schmid, Monika S.; Fagersten, Kristy Beers – Language Learning, 2010
Based on an analysis of the speech of long-term emigres of German and Dutch origin, the present investigation discusses to what extent hesitation patterns in language attrition may be the result of the creation of an interlanguage system, on the one hand, or of language-internal attrition patterns on the other. We compare speech samples elicited…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Language Skill Attrition, Language Patterns, Investigations
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Kim, Youn-Hee; Jang, Eunice Eunhee – Language Learning, 2009
The increasing numbers of English language learners (ELLs) in Canadian schools pose a significant challenge to the standards-based provincial tests used to measure proficiency levels of all students from various linguistic and cultural backgrounds. This study investigated the extent to which reading item bundles or items on the Ontario Secondary…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Munro, Murray J.; Derwing, Tracey M. – Language Learning, 2008
Research on second language (L2) phonetic learning indicates that, even in adults, segmental acquisition remains possible through L2 experience. However, the findings of previous cross-sectional studies of vowel and consonant learning have proved difficult to interpret. In this longitudinal investigation of 44 recent arrivals in Canada,…
Descriptors: Intervals, Phonetics, Vowels, Second Language Learning
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Young, Richard F. – Language Learning, 2008
This chapter begins with the statement that all talk happens somewhere, somehow, at some time and is produced by somebody for some purpose, and the approach that practice theorists have taken is that talk and its context are inseparable. The challenges that face an analyst of practice are then to describe the context, describe the talk, and…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Learning Experience, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
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Lightbown, Patsy M. – Language Learning, 1977
Describes a research project in which the acquisition of French by two six-year-old boys, native speakers of English, was observed longitudinally. (CFM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language, Children
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Hamayan, Fred Genesee; And Others – Language Learning, 1977
Three groups of Grade 7 students participated in a study to examine the personality and language exposure factors associated with learning French as a second language. (CFM)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Communicative Competence (Languages), French, Grade 7
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Gardner, R. C.; Smythe, P. C. – Language Learning, 1977
A study was conducted to examine the changes in students' attitudes, motivation and French achievement during a five-week, residential, summer program. Sixty-two students were administered a battery of attitude and motivation tests as well as a test of oral French proficiency prior to, and upon completion of, the course. (CFM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Communicative Competence (Languages), French, Language Instruction
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Kobayashi, Hiroe; Rinnert, Carol – Language Learning, 1996
Investigated how readers of different backgrounds evaluated 16 versions of Japanese university English as a foreign language (EFL) students' English compositions containing different culturally influenced rhetorical patterns. Results suggest that a flexible approach to permissible rhetorical patterns and a greater emphasis on coherence may be…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), College Students, Cultural Background, English (Second Language)
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Day, Elaine M.; Shapson, Stan M. – Language Learning, 1991
An experimental study was designed to evaluate the effect on French language proficiency of an integrated, formal, analytic and functional, communicative approach to second-language teaching in French immersion. The study consisted of 315 grade 7 early French immersion students. (28 references) (VWL)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Grade 7, Immersion Programs
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Parks, Susan; Maguire, Mary H. – Language Learning, 1999
Investigated how francophone nurses, newly hired in an English-speaking hospital in Quebec, Canada, developed skill in writing nursing notes in English. Data from interviews and observations indicated that social context and mediation were an important part of nurses' ability to appropriate competence in a subgenre of nursing notes in English. (SM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, French, Interviews
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Collins, Laura – Language Learning, 2002
Two cross-sectional studies used a replication design to investigate the degree to which adult Francophone English-as-a-Second-Language learners' use of tense/aspect markers in past contexts supported the predictions of the aspect hypothesis and the degree to which it showed first language influence. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Adults, Cross Sectional Studies, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Laufer, Batia; Paribakht, T. Sima – Language Learning, 1998
Investigated the relationships among three types of vocabulary knowledge (passive, controlled active, and free active) within the same individuals, taking four variables into consideration: passive vocabulary size, language learning context, second (L2) for foreign (FL), length of residence in L2 context, and, among the Canadians, knowledge of…
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Context Effect, English (Second Language)
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