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William G. Travers – ProQuest LLC, 2024
To date, most classroom-based research into the learning of a third language (L3) in the US has examined patterns of acquisition among various groups of bilinguals. Situated mainly within the context of "Portuguese for Spanish Speakers" (PSS), studies typically group learners based on the sequence / age of onset of their main background…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Second Language Learning, Metalinguistics, Portuguese
Shende, Madhur – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Despite some rises and falls in the numbers due to various reasons, including the political climate in the Trump era and the COVID-19 pandemic (Laws & Ammigan, 2020), each year universities in the United States host a large number of multilingual international students from different parts of the world. Based on their TOEFL scores, many are…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Multilingualism, Foreign Students, Language Tests