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Direct linkSlabakova, Roumyana – Modern Language Journal, 2015
This article reports on an experimental study addressing the second language acquisition of Mandarin temporality. Mandarin Chinese does not mark past, present, or future with dedicated morphemes; the native English of the learners does. It was hypothesized that, in their comprehension, learners would utilize the deictic pattern of expressing…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Mandarin Chinese, Morphemes, Bilingualism
Mueller, Jeansue; Jiang, Nan – Modern Language Journal, 2013
An experiment investigated adult language learners' ability to develop fully integrated cognitive representations of a difficult second language (L2) morphosyntactic feature: the Korean honorific verbal affix "(u)si." Native speaker (NS) and nonnative speaker (NNS) latencies during a word-by-word self-paced reading comprehension task…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Second Language Learning, Korean, Morphology (Languages)
Zhang, Dongbo – Modern Language Journal, 2012
Using structural equation modeling analysis, this study examined the contribution of vocabulary and grammatical knowledge to second language reading comprehension among 190 advanced Chinese English as a foreign language learners. Vocabulary knowledge was measured in both breadth (Vocabulary Levels Test) and depth (Word Associates Test);…
Descriptors: Grammar, Reading Comprehension, Structural Equation Models, Vocabulary Development
Meunier, Fanny; Littre, Damien – Modern Language Journal, 2013
The article discusses the potential of combining learner corpus research with experimental studies in order to fine-tune the understanding of learner language development. It illustrates the complementarity of the two methodological approaches with data from an ongoing study of the acquisition of the English tense and aspect system by French…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Morphemes
Ryshina-Pankova, Marianna – Modern Language Journal, 2010
Situated within the framework of the systemic-functional linguistics (Halliday, 1994) and language-based theory of learning (Halliday, 1993), this article examines a shift toward a more objectified and "scientific" representation of reality in texts written by foreign language (FL) learners at various levels of acquisition. It argues that…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Sentences, Nouns, Grammar
Strauss, Susan; Lee, Jihye; Ahn, Kyungja – Modern Language Journal, 2006
This article introduces conceptual grammar as an approach to the analysis and teaching of grammar in foreign and second language contexts through a combination of paradigms: corpus, discourse analysis, and cognitive linguistics. Although the approach is applicable to virtually any language and any construction within that language at various…
Descriptors: Grammar, Korean, Models, Instructional Materials
