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The Influence of Linguistic Input Complexity and Language Learners' Individual Differences in Working Memory and Language Aptitude on Second Language Writing Performance
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Alyssa Vuogan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Second language (L2) writing has been determined to be influenced by what is read, with language learners tending to borrow words and short phrases from input texts while writing (e.g., Wang & Wang, 2015). This phenomenon is referred to as lexical alignment. Only one empirical study has investigated the influence that the linguistic complexity…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Individual Differences
The Development of Discourse Markers in Narrations Written by Spanish Heritage Language Learners: A Case for Explicit and Implicit Instruction
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Mark Cisneros – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Studies in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) indicate that the use of discourse markers (DMs) in the academic writing of second language learners improves the overall quality of these texts by contributing to their cohesion and comprehensibility (Saif Modhish 2012; Jalilifar 2008; Intaraprawat & Steffensen 1995). However, despite the…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language Instruction
Written Discourse Production of Bilingual Learners of Spanish: A Comparison between Heritage and Non-Heritage Speakers as a Look to the Future of Heritage Language Teaching
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Abdul Bagi, Samia – ProQuest LLC, 2012
With the purpose of understanding plausible reasons as to why Hispanics learners of Spanish, or heritage language learners (HLL), tend to obtain lower grades than their non-Hispanic counterparts (L2) in the same courses, forty-four students of Spanish (17 HLLs and 27 L2s) provided written production once a week for a period of six weeks. The data…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Investigating ESL Learners' Lexical Collocations: The Acquisition of Verb + Noun Collocations by Japanese Learners of English
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Miyakoshi, Tomoko – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Although it is widely acknowledged that collocations play an important part in second language learning, especially at intermediate-advanced levels, learners' difficulties with collocations have not been investigated in much detail so far. The present study examines ESL learners' use of verb-noun collocations, such as "take notes," "place an…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Pretests Posttests, Second Language Learning