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Craig Thorburn – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Language learners need to map a continuous, multidimensional acoustic signal to discrete abstract speech categories. The complexity of this mapping poses a difficult learning problem, particularly for second language learners who struggle to acquire the speech sounds of a non-native language, and almost never reach native-like ability. A common…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Video Games, Acoustics
Jin Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Reading is an essential skill for daily life and academic success. According to the connectionist model of reading, word recognition involves orthographic, phonological, and semantic processing, as well as the interactions among them. Language skill such as phonological processing, develops earlier than reading acquisition, and thus likely serves…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Phonological Awareness, Elementary School Students, Phonemes
Kim, Tae Eun – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation is about Chinese loanwords. It is mainly divided into two parts. Part I is a general discussion about loanwords in Chinese; Chapter I and II belong to the first part. Part II is a discussion about the analyses of Mandarin loanwords originating from English. Chapter III, IV, and V are all related to the second part. Chapter VI is…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Linguistic Borrowing, English, Japanese
Novella-Gomez, Miguel Angel – ProQuest LLC, 2012
While attentional models of SLA postulate attention as crucial for learning to take place (e.g., Robinson, 1995b; Schmidt, 1990, 2001; Tomlin & Villa, 1994), the role that awareness or lack thereof plays remains debatable. Indeed, the studies that have empirically addressed the construct of unawareness reveal conflicting results (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Models, Attention, Second Language Learning, Cognitive Processes
Gomez Soler, Inmaculada – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation provides a comprehensive analysis of the L2 acquisition of Spanish psych-verbs (e.g. "gustar" "to like") across four different proficiency levels. In particular, psych-verbs constitute a testing ground for the predictions of the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace and Filiaci, 2006; Tsimpli, Sorace, Heycok &…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Verbs, Language Proficiency