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Wakayo Mattingley; Forrest Panther; Simon Todd; Jeanette King; Jennifer Hay; Peter J. Keegan – Language Learning, 2024
Previous studies report that exposure to the Maori language on a regular basis allows New Zealand adults who cannot speak Maori to build a proto-lexicon of Maori -- an implicit memory of word forms without detailed knowledge of meaning. How might this knowledge feed into explicit language learning? Is it possible to "awaken" the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonology, Second Language Learning, Malayo Polynesian Languages
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Dang, Thi Ngoc Yen; Coxhead, Averil; Webb, Stuart – Language Learning, 2017
The linguistic features of academic spoken English are different from those of academic written English. Therefore, for this study, an Academic Spoken Word List (ASWL) was developed and validated to help second language (L2) learners enhance their comprehension of academic speech in English-medium universities. The ASWL contains 1,741 word…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Word Lists, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning