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St. John, Oliver – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2010
Foreign language (FL) education has been marked by a monolingual principle that has favoured "intralingual" methodologies. Bakhtin's view of language interillumination--that languages throw light on each other--challenges such language teaching practices radically. Using conversation analysis methods, this article examines transcripts of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Monolingualism
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Philip, William; Botschuijver, Sabine – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2004
Adult and child L2 acquisition of syntax-semantics interface phenomena must be compared with monolingual L1 acquisition of the same phenomena in order to assess the possible effects of interference and transfer. However, this "L1A touchstone" can also be misleading because non-grammatical mechanisms that interact with such interface phenomena may…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Linguistic Performance, Linguistic Competence, Language Patterns
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Modirkhamene, Sima – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2006
The present study examines the possible effects of bilinguality on third language learning among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners with a focus on reading comprehension proficiency achievement. This study is a longitudinal survey of EFL learners in Urmia University in Azerbaijan, Iran, during 2002-2004. It compared 56 Turkish-Persian…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries