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Hakansson, Gisela; Norrby, Catrin – Language Learning, 2010
This article explores the influence of the learning environment on the second language acquisition of Swedish. Data were collected longitudinally over 1 year from 35 university students studying Swedish in Malmo, Sweden, and in Melbourne, Australia. Three areas were investigated: grammar, pragmatics, and lexicon. The development of grammar was…
Descriptors: Association Measures, Scoring, Foreign Countries, Native Speakers
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DeKeyser, Robert M.; Sokalski, Karl J. – Language Learning, 1996
Presents a replication of experiments which found that input practice is better than output practice for comprehension skills, and no worse than output practice for production skills in a second language (Spanish). Findings reveal that these patterns are obscured when the testing time and the morphosyntactic nature of the structure in question…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, College Students, Instructional Materials, Introductory Courses