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Direct linkDobrinka Genevska-Hanke; Cornelia Hamann – Language Learning Journal, 2024
This study investigates the use of overt and null subjects in Bulgarian in child heritage speakers with L2 German. The alternation of overt and null pronominal subjects in null-subject languages like Bulgarian depends on grammatical and discourse conditions and contrasts with German. Oral narratives were elicited in Bulgarian, comparing the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, German, Bilingualism
Vögelin, Cristina; Jansen, Thorben; Keller, Stefan D.; Möller, Jens – Language Learning Journal, 2021
This experimental study examined the influence of vocabulary and spelling on teachers' perceptions of English as a second language (ESL) essays. Sixty-nine pre-service teachers from Switzerland and Germany rated four upper-intermediate ESL argumentative essays and provided written comments on strengths and weaknesses of the student compositions.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary, Spelling
Peer reviewedBarbour, Stephen – Language Learning Journal, 1996
Describes how the difficulty of German has been exaggerated and discusses certain supposed problems facing English speakers in the mastering of German vocabulary. The idea that technical vocabulary of native German origin presents a serious obstacle to native English speakers arises from an erroneous view of German as a "pure" Germanic…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, German, Grammar
