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Realities of Comfort and Discomfort in the Heritage Language Classroom: Looking to Transformative Positive Psychology for Juggling a Double-Edged Sword
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Meagan Driver – Modern Language Journal, 2024
As emotions research in the field of second language acquisition continues to evolve, it is equally important to explore the impact of social--emotional variables that are specifically relevant to heritage language (HL) contexts. Anchoring on foundations in critical heritage language education (HLE), this study examines the discomforts of the HL…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Psychology
Characteristics of Weak and Strong Readers in a Foreign Language
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Alderson, J. Charles; Nieminen, Lea; Huhta, Ari – Modern Language Journal, 2016
This study investigated the cognitive (first language [L1] and foreign language [FL]), linguistic (L1 and FL), and motivational characteristics of weak FL readers in contrast to strong readers in 3 groups of L1 Finnish-speaking learners of English, aged 10, 14, and 17 years. This cross-sectional study covered a wide range of potential correlates,…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Scores
When Language Experience Fails to Explain Word Reading Development: Early Cognitive and Linguistic Profiles of Young Foreign Language Learners
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Hu, Chieh-Fang; Schuele, C. Melanie – Modern Language Journal, 2015
Although language experience is a key factor in successful foreign language (FL) learning, many FL learners fail to achieve performance levels that were predicted on the basis of their FL experience. This retrospective study investigated early cognitive and linguistic correlates of learning English as a foreign language (FL) in a group of…
Descriptors: Profiles, Second Language Learning, Reading Skills, Prediction