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Nancy J. Reyes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The present study examined the acquisition of Spanish grammatical gender in 22 bilingual children (aged 5;0 to 13;5 years; Med=9;4 years; STD=2.3) who were born and raised in the United States and acquired Spanish as heritage speakers--that is, they learned Spanish, the minority language, in a home setting (Valdes, 2001). Each of the child…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, Spanish Speaking, Second Language Learning
Lori Le Duc Slaybaugh – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The Null Subject Parameter (NSP) has long been considered pertinent to Second Language Acquisition (SLA) studies, especially when the native language (NL) and target language (TL) have different NSP settings. The study aimed to investigate whether seventy English L2 learners in Puerto Rico who were native Spanish speakers transferred their L1…
Descriptors: Native Language, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Second Language Learning
Xin Sun – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Early childhood language experiences influence how a child's mind and brain process language and acquire literacy. For children growing up bilingual, their two languages interact in their minds, and these cross-linguistic influences can lead to unique neurocognitive mechanisms for language and reading compared to monolinguals. In this…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, Literacy, Neurology
Wendy Guo – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Collocations are words that have a tendency to co-occur within a few words' spans, e.g., "drink coffee" and "dark chocolate" in English. Growing empirical evidence suggests that both native (L1) speakers and advanced second language (L2) learners process two-word collocations faster than unconnected word pairs, and that…
Descriptors: Language Processing, English (Second Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning
Danielle Fernanda Stephania Gonzalez Bustamante – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study explores the experiences of second-generation Latine adolescents by examining the impact of bilingualism on self-esteem and depressive symptoms. Drawing on Suarez-Orozco and colleagues' (2018) model, this study shows the multifaceted acculturation process, emphasizing linguistic acculturation as crucial for navigating two cultures. The…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Acculturation, Self Esteem, Spanish
Madison Raelene Dunlap – ProQuest LLC, 2024
With the increasing prevalence of autism diagnoses globally, the overall aim of this dissertation is to improve our understanding of the linguistic aptitude of autistic individuals. Given that the autism diagnosis is a spectrum, we rely on the Autism Quotient (AQ) test, which measures the quantity of autistic-like traits an individual possesses,…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, English, Language Dominance, Children
Julie C. Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Bilingual children, the majority of whom are Spanish-English learners, now constitute over a third of the preschool population in the United States (Migration Policy Institute, 2021). Bilingual children and their families face multiple barriers to high-quality early childhood education, which are largely due to the underutilization of culturally…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Family Environment, Spanish, English (Second Language)
Christian A. Navarro-Torres – ProQuest LLC, 2021
An aim of research on bilingualism is to understand how the brain adapts to the use of more than one language. Although several important discoveries and insights about the consequences of bilingualism have been generated over the last several decades, concerns about replicability have narrowed the scope of inquiry and discussion to the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Processing
Elias Shakkour – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In second language acquisition, it is well known that an early age of onset and an extensive amount of naturalistic input are key elements promoting successful learning outcomes. What is less well known is what outcomes we can expect when the main source of these elements is full-immersion schooling, defined for the purposes of this study as a…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, Comparative Analysis
Annie Grey Helms – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation analyzes the production and perception of lexical stress in trilinguals' first, second, and third languages (L1, L2, and L3) to evaluate how the cue-weighting transfer hypothesis applies to L3 acquisition. According to this hypothesis, acoustic cues to stress have different weights across languages, and results from both…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Acoustics, Cues
Markovits Rojas, Jennifer Rosanna – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Study 1: The present work examined the connection between language and conceptual development, investigating whether false-belief reasoning (FBR) and source-monitoring ability (SMA) abilities within the theory of mind (ToM) framework constrained the comprehension of semantic and pragmatic knowledge (evidential scalar implicatures) encoded in the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, American Indian Languages, Theory of Mind, Foreign Countries
Del Carpio, Leslie – ProQuest LLC, 2022
As critical approaches to Heritage Language (HL) instruction are increasingly more widespread, it is now more pertinent than ever to conduct research on Spanish linguistic variation that reveals systematicity and refutes hegemonic notions of 'incorrectness'. This variationist study examines the use and distribution of the Preterite and Imperfect…
Descriptors: Spanish, Heritage Education, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning
David Glennon Stanton – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This critical ethnography examines how the language ideologies of non-teaching staff (NTS) shape language practices in a bilingual PreK-8 school. Recent research on two-way bilingual education reveals the ways that the language ideologies of teachers, administrators, and parents can support the privileging of English in bilingual programs by…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Daniel Bates – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation research examines the acquisition of second language vowels. For second language learners, learning a new languages' sound inventory, particularly its vowels, presents a challenge perceptually and in terms of production. Incorrectly perceiving and producing sounds in a second language results in a foreign accent in many adult…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Vowels
Priscila Lopez-Beltran Forcada – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Studies assessing the grammatical knowledge of speakers of Spanish as a heritage language have largely focused on the Spanish subjunctive mood and have concluded, almost unanimously, that heritage speakers' knowledge of the Spanish subjunctive is non-native-like and subject to incomplete acquisition. However, there is also evidence that while…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Grammar, Native Language, Linguistic Theory
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