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Padraic Monaghan; Heather Murray; Heiko Holz – Language Learning, 2024
To acquire language, learners have to map the language onto the environment, but languages vary as to how much information they include to constrain how a sentence relates to the world. We investigated the conditions under which information within the language and the environment is combined for learning. In a cross-situational artificial language…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Environmental Influences, Context Effect, Artificial Languages
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Sybille Heinzmann; Robert Hilbe; Kristina Ehrsam; Lukas Bleichenbacher – Language Learning, 2024
Our contribution draws on quantitative data from a longitudinal mixed-methods study to uncover different patterns of social contacts of study abroad (SA) students and the relationship of these social contacts with (a) language use, (b) target language development, and (c) contextual variables. Data were obtained by means of online questionnaires…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Attitudes, Interpersonal Relationship, Language Usage
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Lee, Crystal; Kurumada, Chigusa – Language Learning, 2021
Three experiments investigated adult learners' acquisition of a novel adjective. In English and other languages, meanings of some gradable adjectives are said to include an absolute standard of comparison (e.g., "full" means completely filled with content). However, actual usage is often imprecise, where a maximum absolute standard of…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Adult Learning, Language Usage, Semantics
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Moranski, Kara; Zalbidea, Janire – Language Learning, 2022
This study employed a multisite design to investigate the differential impact of deductive and guided inductive instruction for second language (L2) grammar development in ecologically valid classroom contexts. Students (n = 138) from eight intact third-year L2 Spanish classes in three public high schools in the United States received deductive…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Logical Thinking
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Saito, Kazuya – Language Learning, 2020
The current study examined the degree to which collocation use (i.e., meaningful co-occurrences of multiple words) is related to first language (L1) raters' intuitive judgments of second language (L2) speech. Speech samples from a picture description task performed by 85 Japanese learners of English with varied L2 proficiency profiles were…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Speech Communication, Native Language, Phrase Structure
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Eskildsen, Soren W. – Language Learning, 2012
This article explores the usage- and exemplar-based roots of second language (L2) negation construction learning. Based on two longitudinal case studies involving two adult L2 English learners and a corpus of 63 three-hour sessions of recorded classroom interactions, the study shows that L2 learning follows the predictions of usage-based models of…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Second Language Learning, Case Studies, Longitudinal Studies
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Akiyama, M. Michael; Williams, Nancy – Language Learning, 1996
Reports on two studies examining the effects of object size, container size, sex, and language group on the use of counts in prescriptive and descriptive grammar. Results indicate that people's selection of noun forms in a measure partitive noun phrase is influenced by nonlinguistic factors, such as their gender and the food size relative to…
Descriptors: College Students, Context Effect, English (Second Language), Grammar