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Tsupa, Yanina – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2021
Language proficiency is multi-componential in nature and, according to many SLA researchers and L2 practitioners, is best captured by the concepts of complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF). Two of the three studies reported in this paper adopted the Cognition Hypothesis (Robinson, 2003) as the means to address the question of whether increasing…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Language Proficiency, Accuracy, Schemata (Cognition)
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Pearl, Lisa – Language Learning and Development, 2022
Poverty of the stimulus has been at the heart of ferocious and tear-filled debates at the nexus of psychology, linguistics, and philosophy for decades. This review is intended as a guide for readers without a formal linguistics or philosophy background, focusing on what poverty of the stimulus is and how it's been interpreted, which is…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Learning Processes, Syntax, Semantics
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Ellis, Rod – Language Learning, 2015
Idealization plays a fundamental role in scientific inquiry. This article examines the case for maintaining the claim that the second language acquisition (SLA) of grammatical structures such as negation manifests identifiable stages of acquisition. It proposes that, while research has demonstrated the need for de-idealization, there is no need to…
Descriptors: Language Research, Second Language Learning, Teacher Education, Grammar
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Guerrero-Nieto, Carmen Helena; Quintero-Polo, Álvaro Hernán – HOW, 2021
This article presents our narration of the emergence and development of a research area about the teaching and learning of the English language in Colombia and the creation of a research group named Critical Studies of Colombian Education Policies. The narration includes a description of the bilingual education policy in Colombia and a literature…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, English (Second Language)
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Eckerth, Johannes; Tschirner, Erwin – Language Teaching, 2010
This review of research on the learning, teaching, and assessment of L2 German may be particularly timely due to developments from within the profession as well as recent political changes which continue to have a strong bearing on the way L2 German is promoted, learned, taught and assessed. Far from representing an isolated field of research…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, German, Literature Reviews, Educational Assessment
Nath, Baiju. K.; V., Vineesha – Online Submission, 2009
Today as in the past, many students struggle with mathematics and become affected as they continually encounter obstacles to engagement. Mathematics is generally seen as a difficult subject and how this subject is communicated to pupils will influence how pupils learn the subject. Classroom routines play an important role in developing students'…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Literature Reviews, Educational Research, Mathematics Instruction
Roeper, Thomas – 1988
A discussion of the role of linguistic theory in explaining language acquisition proposes that theory draws too narrow a picture of language to adequately account for the developmental phenomena of acquisition. While recognizing the importance of descriptive linguistic research, a new approach cautions against embracing description to the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Learning Processes
Mayher, John S. – New York University Education Quarterly, 1980
Noam Chomsky proposed that when children learn a language they do not learn to imitate given sentences; rather, they learn rules by which an infinite number of sentences can be produced and understood. This essay discusses the impact which this has had on the way educators view language and learning. (KC)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Learning Processes
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Mackey, Alison – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2006
The goal of this epilogue is to use the methodological contributions of the studies presented in this special issue as a starting point for suggestions about methodology in conducting future interaction research. As is the case in most developing fields, interaction research develops methods internally as it continually borrows and extends…
Descriptors: Language Research, Psychologists, Interaction, Memory
VanPatten, Bill; Lee, James F. – Issues and Developments in English and Applied Linguistics (IDEAL), 1988
Research on second language acquisition (SLA) and research on foreign language learning (FLL), often regarded as different and separate fields of inquiry, are compared in a brief review of literature. Perceptions about the scopes and characteristics of the research are examined. Concerns about the relationship between SLA research and theory and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Learning Processes
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Cahir, Stephen R.; Shuy, Roger W. – Language Arts, 1981
The current state of research on language learning processes is reviewed, and the implications of that research for language arts teachers are discussed. (HTH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Arts, Language Research
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Mady, Callie – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2007
In Canada, education in French as a second language (FSL) offers students the opportunity to learn a second official language. Is such an opportunity appropriate for allophone students who are still in the process of learning English? This literature review provides a fourfold consideration of the issue. Section 1 examines the political response…
Descriptors: Official Languages, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, French
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Smith, Frank – Language Arts, 1981
The conventions inherent to language are explored, and demonstrations, engagement, and sensitivity are discussed as factors present in all learning situations in which a person learns to master these complex conventions. (HTH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Arts, Language Patterns
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Hammarberg, Bjorn – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1988
A review of the acquisition of second-language phonology focuses on the following areas: (1) the various factors that have been found to influence the acquisition process, and (2) a discussion of topics in the phonological description of the learner language. (46 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Interference (Language), Language Research, Language Styles
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Gee, James Paul – Linguistics and Education, 1994
Articulates general principles of learning based on research of the earliest periods of language acquisition in childhood. The principles are meant to be suggestive and to contribute to the development of a first language acquisition-based theory of learning. (78 references) (MDM)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Learning Experience
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