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Janssen, Caressa; Segers, Eliane; McQueen, James M.; Verhoeven, Ludo – Language Learning, 2015
Children who start formal education in a second language may experience slower vocabulary growth in that language and subsequently experience disadvantages in literacy acquisition. The current study asked whether lexical specificity training can stimulate bilingual children's phonological awareness, which is considered to be a precursor to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Phonology, Phonemes, Bilingualism
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Andringa, Sible; de Glopper, Kees; Hacquebord, Hilde – Language Learning, 2011
A classroom study was designed to test the hypothesis that explicit knowledge is used by second-language (L2) learners in a free written response task if that knowledge is present. Eighty-one 12-18-year-old learners of Dutch as an L2 took part in a computer-assisted language learning experiment receiving either explicit or implicit instruction…
Descriptors: Grammar, Educational Technology, Hypothesis Testing, Second Language Learning