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Varela, Jasmin – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The future success of today's students and our nation depends on how well prepared our students are to contribute to the globalized world of the 21st century. The population of English Language Learners (ELLs) is exploding in the United States. If students are not given the appropriate language scaffolds to learn English, ELLs will struggle…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Second Language Learning, English Language Learners
Elisabeth Wilhelmina Maria Hopman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Generalization is the ability to apply regularities to novel instances, for example, correctly guessing that the plural for the novel English word 'wug' should be 'wugs'. Early language learners make overgeneralization errors like 'mouses', applying regularities beyond their attested uses. Theories concerned with the question of how learners learn…
Descriptors: Generalization, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Patterns
Marcella Caprario – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In English as a lingua franca (ELF) communication, in which English is used as a common language among interlocutors of different first languages, successful communication often features communication strategies that enhance mutual understanding and relationship management. Although prior research suggests that including such strategies in English…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Intervention
Edelman, Christopher M. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study was an investigation into the aural and written receptive knowledge of the English semantics of English lexis that is loanwords in the Japanese language and the predictive strength of the variables of semantic distance, concreteness/abstractness, polysemy, phonological distance, number of syllables, number of phonemes, number of…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Japanese, Semantics, English (Second Language)
Edyburn, Kelly Leigh – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Latinx dual language learners (DLLs) are an enormous and growing student body that faces educational adversities and inequities. One of the most salient findings to emerge from decades of educational research is that DLLs who close the gap with their monolingual peers and have the best long-term academic performance are those who develop strong…
Descriptors: Spanish, Educational Policy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Rhoades-Ko, Yun-Hee – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examines the second language acquisition of the evidentiality requirement in the Korean psychological state of mind expressions. When an experiencer of the psychological state of mind is different from the speaker, Korean language requires an evidential expression to the psychological predicate so that the speaker indicates the source…
Descriptors: Korean, Second Language Learning, Video Technology, Native Language
Kim, Scott Sungki – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The present research study investigated the effects of 8 versions of a computer-based vocabulary learning program on receptive and productive knowledge levels of college students. The participants were 106 male and 103 female Korean EFL students from Kyungsung University and Kwandong University in Korea. Students who participated in versions of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Expressive Language, Receptive Language
Chavez, Gina – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Few classroom measures of English language proficiency have been evaluated for reliability and validity. This research examined the concurrent and predictive validity of an oral language test, titled A Developmental English Language Proficiency Test (ADEPT), and the relationship to the California English Language Development Test (CELDT) in the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Smith, Kimberly Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study investigated the effects of shared reading on oral vocabulary development with 42 second language (L2) learners in Dakar, Senegal. Participants, ranging from four to six years old, were taught French target words using predictable books, non-predicable books, and control activities of the typical local instructional practice of using…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Gatliffe, Eileen M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined vocabulary acquisition of elementary students in grades kindergarten through fifth in one rural New Mexico school. The school had 277 students. Hispanic students comprised nearly 80% of the student body. All students received free lunch and breakfast. The 65 students who participated in the study were assessed using the…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Kindergarten, Vocabulary Development, Statistical Significance