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Tskhovrebova, Ekaterina; Zufferey, Sandrine; Gygax, Pascal – Language Learning, 2022
Many connectives, such as "therefore" and "however," are used very frequently in the written modality. Their acquisition thus represents an important milestone in developing written language competences. In this article, we assess the development of competence with such connectives by native French speakers in a sentence-level…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Writing Skills, Native Speakers, French
Révész, Andrea; Kourtali, Nektaria-Efstathia; Mazgutova, Diana – Language Learning, 2017
This study investigated whether task complexity influences second language (L2) writers' fluency, pausing, and revision behaviors and the cognitive processes underlying these behaviors; whether task complexity affects linguistic complexity of written output; and whether relationships between writing behaviors and linguistic complexity are…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Task Analysis, Difficulty Level, Writing Skills
Kourtali, Nektaria-Efstathia; Révész, Andrea – Language Learning, 2020
This study investigated the effects of task complexity on child learners' second language (L2) gains, the relationship between aptitude and L2 development, and the extent to which task complexity influences this relationship when recasts are provided. Sixty child EFL learners were assigned to two experimental groups. During the treatment, one…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Second Language Learning, Comparative Analysis, Task Analysis
Vasylets, Olena; Gilabert, Roger; Manchón, Rosa M. – Language Learning, 2017
Taking a psycholinguistic orientation within task-based language teaching scholarship, this study investigated the effects of mode (oral vs. written) and task complexity on second language (L2) performance. The participants were 78 Catalan/Spanish learners of English as a foreign language. Half of the participants performed the simple and complex…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Reali, Florencia – Language Learning, 2014
The processing difficulty of nested grammatical structure has been explained by different psycholinguistic theories. Here I provide corpus and behavioral evidence in favor of usage-based models, focusing on the case of object relative clauses in Spanish as a first language. A corpus analysis of spoken Spanish reveals that, as in English, the…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Grammar, Psycholinguistics, Linguistic Theory
Kormos, Judit; Trebits, Anna – Language Learning, 2012
The study reported in this paper investigated the relationship between components of aptitude and the fluency, lexical variety, syntactic complexity, and accuracy of performance in two types of written and spoken narrative tasks. We also addressed the question of how narrative performance varies in tasks of different cognitive complexity in the…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Aptitude, Second Language Learning, Correlation
Bochner, Joseph H.; Christie, Karen; Hauser, Peter C.; Searls, J. Matt – Language Learning, 2011
Learners' ability to recognize linguistic contrasts in American Sign Language (ASL) was investigated using a paired-comparison discrimination task. Minimal pairs containing contrasts in five linguistic categories (i.e., the formational parameters of movement, handshape, orientation, and location in ASL phonology, and a category comprised of…
Descriptors: Phonology, Oral Language, Deafness, American Sign Language
Paradis, Johanne – Language Learning, 2010
This study investigated whether bilingual-monolingual differences would be apparent in school-age children's use and knowledge of English verb morphology and whether differences would be influenced by amount of exposure to English, complexity of the morphological structure, or the type of task given. French-English bilinguals (mean age = 6;10)…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Verbs, Morphology (Languages), Standardized Tests
Wu, Shu-Ling – Language Learning, 2011
The present study adopted a cognitive linguistic framework--Talmy's (1985, 1991, 2000) typological classification of motion events--to investigate how second-language (L2) Chinese learners come to express motion events in a targetlike manner. Fifty-five U.S. university students and 20 native speakers of Chinese participated in the study. A…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes, Motion, Native Speakers

Iwashita, Noriko; McNamara, Tim; Elder, Catherine – Language Learning, 2001
Addresses the question of whether there are different characteristics and language performance conditions (involving assumed different levels of cognitive demand) associated with different levels of fluency, complexity, or accuracy in test candidate responses. Participants were pre-university students taking English courses. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Tests