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Christopher Nicklin; Allie Patterson; Stuart McLean – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
Proper nouns constitute a lexical class with special properties and are thus treated differently from other words by second language acquisition researchers. An assumption exists that even low-proficiency learners will find them unproblematic, yet research suggests this assumption might be misplaced. The present study involved two self-paced…
Descriptors: Nouns, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Reading Fluency
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Yu, Xiaoru; Janse, Esther; Schoonen, Rob – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
Little research has been done on the effect of learning context on L2 listening development. Motivated by DeKeyser's (2015) skill acquisition theory of second language acquisition, this study compares L2 listening development in study abroad (SA) and at home (AH) contexts from both language knowledge and processing perspectives. One hundred…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Listening Comprehension, Foreign Countries, Graduate Students
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Granena, Gisela – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
This study investigated the underlying structure of a set of eight cognitive tests from the two most recent language aptitude test batteries: the LLAMA (Meara, 2005) and the Hi-LAB (Linck et al., 2013) to see whether they had any underlying constructs in common. The study also examined whether any of the observed constructs could predict L2…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Intelligence Tests, Memory, Language Aptitude
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Godfroid, Aline – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2016
This study extends the evidence for implicit second language (L2) learning, which comes largely from (semi-)artificial language research, to German. Upper-intermediate L2 German learners were flooded with spoken exemplars of a difficult morphological structure, namely strong, vowel-changing verbs. Toward the end of exposure, the mandatory vowel…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Morphology (Languages), Verbs