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Does Foreign Language Writing Benefit from Increased Lexical Fluency? Evidence from a Classroom Experiment
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van Gelderen, Amos; Oostdam, Ron; van Schooten, Erik – Language Learning, 2011
We report a classroom experiment directed at increasing lexical fluency in writing. Participants were 107 Dutch students in bilingual (EFL) education (Grades 10 and 11). According to current theories of writing such fluency allows writers to devote more attention to higher order aspects of text production, such as idea generation, selection and…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Control Groups, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Dutch Gender in Specific Language Impairment and Second Language Acquisition
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Orgassa, Antje; Weerman, Fred – Second Language Research, 2008
In this article we compare five groups of learners acquiring Dutch gender as marked on determiners and adjectival inflection. Groups of L1 (first language) children and L1-SLI (first-language specific-language-impairment) children are compared to three Turkish-Dutch L2 (second language) groups: adult L2, child L2 and child L2-SLI. Overall, our…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Language Impairments, Indo European Languages
A Statistical Basis for Speech Sound Discrimination
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Anderson, Jennifer L.; Morgan, James L.; White, Katherine S. – Language and Speech, 2003
Infants under six months are able to discriminate native and non-native consonant contrasts equally well, but as they learn the phonological systems of their native language, this ability declines. Current explanations of this phenomenon agree that the decline in discrimination ability is linked to the formation of native-language phonemic…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Phonology, Infants, Statistical Analysis
Evaluating the Relative Effectiveness of Structured-Input and Output-Based Instruction in Foreign Language Learning: Results from an Experimental Study
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Erlam, Rosemary – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
This paper reviews studies that have contrasted the effectiveness of structured-input instruction with output-based instruction. It then presents results from a study comparing the relative effects of structured-input and output-based instruction on students' ability to comprehend and produce direct object pronouns in second language French. Three…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Second Language Learning
Implicit and Explicit Corrective Feedback and the Acquisition of L2 Grammar
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Ellis, Rod; Loewen, Shawn; Erlam, Rosemary – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2006
This article reviews previous studies of the effects of implicit and explicit corrective feedback on SLA, pointing out a number of methodological problems. It then reports on a new study of the effects of these two types of corrective feedback on the acquisition of past tense -ed. In an experimental design (two experimental groups and a control…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Error Correction, Experimental Groups, Control Groups