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Cobb, Thomas – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2016
Thomas Cobb's 2007 applied linguistics paper, "Computing the Vocabulary Demands of L2 Reading" dealt with whether reading alone can build an adequate reading lexicon in a second language, or whether some sort of extra vocabulary training will normally be required. In the article, Cobb proposed that in the case of adult academic ESL…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Vocabulary Skills, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Coussey, Mary – Adults Learning, 2008
Every government wants to appear to be tough on asylum seekers. But in failing to offer newcomers immediate access to English language learning one runs the risk of missing out on significant economic and social cohesion benefits. In this article, the author argues that asylum seekers need to get English language support in their first six months…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Refugees, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Lavender, Peter – Adults Learning, 2008
In England more is spent on English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) for adults than is spent on literacy and numeracy put together, an estimated 323 million pounds for 2007-2008. This may well be the biggest investment in Europe for national language learning for adults. It is argued that ESOL is central to several social policy streams.…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Official Languages, Adult Learning, Foreign Countries
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Juffs, Alan – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2006
The article by Clahsen and Felser (CF) on grammatical processing in language learning is a timely and much-needed synthesis of research on this topic. It correctly identifies both morphological processing and syntactic processing as key areas that require attention. This commentary raises two issues: the relationship between the grammar and the…
Descriptors: Grammar, Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Adult Learning
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Sokolik, M. E. – TESOL Quarterly, 1990
A common problem in adult second-language learning, the disparity between child and adult second-language learning referred to as the Adult Language Learning Paradox, is examined within the Parallel Distributed Processing model framework. (24 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Age Differences, Children, Language Acquisition
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Uziel, Sigal – Second Language Research, 1993
A test of a hypothesis about the availability of Universal Grammar principles to adult language learners involved testing predictions about acquisition patterns in Hebrew speakers learning English as a Second Language. Results supported the view that second-language acquisition is a process of parameter reassignment of principles that are indeed…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Grammar, Hebrew, Language Research
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Ronan, Eileen – Journal of Reading, 1986
Relates a personal experience of teaching reading to an illiterate adult from Mexico. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Bilingual Education, English (Second Language)
Lueers, Nancy M.; And Others – 1983
This review of research considers both the similarities and differences between adult learners and learners who are children, and applies the findings to second language instruction. First, similarities between children and adults have to do with involving as many senses as possible in learning, allowing for emotional involvement of learners,…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adults, Developmental Stages, Individual Differences
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Zobl, Helmut – Second Language Research, 1990
Demonstrates second-language acquisition (L2) is module and parameter sensitive. It is proposed that the acquisition of English by adult Japanese speakers is sensitive to the agreement parameter as well as the principle of structural government. (45 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Epistemology
Gal, Ilona – Esperanto Documents, 1978
Research has indicated that the elderly retain the ability to learn, and specifically to learn new languages. Furthermore, the increasingly greater proportion of old people in the population demands that their need for continued intellectual stimulation be met. In the absence of explicit motives for learning an ethnic language, Esperanto is a good…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Artificial Languages, Educational Gerontology
Young-Scholten, Martha – 1999
A review of research on the development of linguistic competence in second language learners looks at the role played by input to children in their development of linguistic competence, the nature of children's metalinguistic development, and the same processes in the naturalistic second language learning of adults, and then examines the role of a…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Child Language, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
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Ellis, Nick C. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1996
Responds to Major's (1996) and Ioup's (1996) criticism of this author's theory of language acquisition. The author agrees with both critics that abstract systems of phonology are acquired. He concludes that the proper study of language acquisition is to chart the course by which perceptual, motoric, and cognitive functions induce structure. (31…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Audiolingual Methods, Child Language, Constructivism (Learning)
Hedge, Dick; And Others – 1984
Special problems of adult language learners aged 50 and older studying English as a second language include physical, social, and psychological factors. Physical factors related to aging include vision and hearing problems that adults may not be willing to admit to. Older adults may also be more sensitive to room temperature and lighting, and may…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, English (Second Language), Older Adults
Davidian, Richard D. – 1982
A model for adult language learning is developed based on the postulates that language is semiotic, contextual, communicative, and cultural. Research in psycholinguistics has discovered that a cognitive and recognitional knowledge of language underlies and is greater than performative language. The move from the first level, the semantic base, to…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Cultural Context, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory
Derbal, Mongi; Tamine, Jean-Pierre – Francais dans le Monde, 1984
As a result of learning French in a situation in which only speech skills are necessary and reading and writing skills are not, Tunisians produce fixed, economical, and valid usage that is incorrect or unacceptable in relation to the norm. (MSE)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Foreign Countries, French, Grammatical Acceptability
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