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Language Revitalization as L2 Shadow Boxing: The Case of Palenquero Plural-Marking
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Lipski, John M. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
In the Afro-Colombian community of San Basilio de Palenque, there are school-based efforts to revitalize the once-endangered creole language Palenquero. At present, most Palenquero language classes do not include grammatical instruction, active student production, or corrective feedback, and there is little or no communication in Palenquero…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Creoles, Second Language Instruction
Effects of Form-Focused Practice and Feedback on Chinese EFL Learners' Acquisition of Regular and Irregular Past Tense Forms
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Yang, Yingli; Lyster, Roy – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2010
Conducted in English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) classrooms at the university level in China, this quasi-experimental study compared the effects of three different corrective feedback treatments on 72 Chinese learners' use of regular and irregular English past tense. Three classes were randomly assigned to a prompt group, a recast group, or a…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Control Groups, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
To Simplify or Not to Simplify: A Look at Intake.
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Leow, Ronald P. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1993
The effects of simplification, type of linguistic item, and second-language experience on learners' intake of linguistic items contained in written input were studied. Results suggest that simplification does not have a facilitating effect on learners' intake. Sample passages are appended. (56 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Language Research, Linguistic Input