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Hofweber, Julia; Aumônier, Lizzy; Janke, Vikki; Gullberg, Marianne; Marshall, Chloë – Language Learning, 2023
We investigated whether sign-naïve learners can infer and learn the meaning of signs after minimal exposure to continuous, naturalistic input in the form of a weather forecast in Swedish Sign Language. Participants were L1-English adults. Two experimental groups watched the forecast once (n = 40) or twice (n = 42); a control group did not (n =…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Swedish, Second Language Learning, Visual Stimuli
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Irina Elgort; Ross van de Wetering; Tara Arrow; Elisabeth Beyersmann – Language Learning, 2024
In this study, we examined the effect of previewing unfamiliar vocabulary on the real-time reading behavior of first language (L1) and second language (L2) readers. University students with English as their L1 or L2 read passages with embedded pseudowords. In a within-participant manipulation, definitions of the pseudowords were either previewed…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yi, Wei; Man, Kaiwen; Maie, Ryo – Language Learning, 2023
In this study, we investigated the accuracy of first language (L1) and second language (L2) speakers' intuitive judgments of phrasal frequency and collocation strength, and examined the linguistic influences that give rise to these judgments. L1 and L2 speakers of English judged 180 adjective-noun collocations as (a) high frequency, medium…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Decision Making
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Iwaizumi, Emi; Webb, Stuart – Language Learning, 2023
This study explores the effects of receptive derivational affix knowledge, derivative frequency, part of speech, and vocabulary breadth on production of derivatives. Twenty-one speakers of English as a first language and 107 learners of English as a second language were asked to produce derivatives for 90 prompt words on a decontextualized…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Saito, Kazuya; Suzukida, Yui; Tran, Mai; Tierney, Adam – Language Learning, 2021
To date, a growing number of studies have shown that domain-general auditory processing, which prior work has linked to L1 acquisition, could explain various dimensions of naturalistic L2 speech proficiency. The current study examined the generalizability of this topic to L2 speech learning in classroom settings. The spontaneous speech samples of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Usage
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Shintani, Natsuko; Ellis, Rod; Suzuki, Wataru – Language Learning, 2014
The study compared the effects of two types of form-focused written feedback--direct corrective feedback (DCF) and metalinguistic explanation (ME) given to the whole class--on Japanese university students' accuracy of use of two grammatical structures: indefinite article and the hypothetical conditional. Both types of feedback were given with…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Accuracy, Error Correction, Metalinguistics