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Linguistic Dissimilarity Increases Age-Related Decline in Adult Language Learning
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Schepens, Job J.; van Hout, Roeland W. N. M.; van der Slik, Frans W. P. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
We investigated age-related decline in adult learning of Dutch as an additional language (Ln) in speaking, writing, listening, and reading proficiency test scores for 56,024 adult immigrants with 50 L1s who came to the Netherlands for study or work. Performance for all four language skills turned out to decline monotonically after an age of…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Cognitive Ability, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
L1 Influence on the Acquisition Order of English Grammatical Morphemes
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Murakami, Akira; Alexopoulou, Theodora – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2016
We revisit morpheme studies to evaluate the long-standing claim for a universal order of acquisition. We investigate the L2 acquisition order of six English grammatical morphemes by learners from seven L1 groups across five proficiency levels. Data are drawn from approximately 10,000 written exam scripts from the Cambridge Learner Corpus. The…
Descriptors: English, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Morphemes
Substrate Influence in Creoles and the Role of Transfer in Second Language Acquisition
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Siegel, Jeff – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
This article discusses how research on language transfer in the field of SLA can help to explain the origins of substrate influence in creoles and provide answers to more difficult questions concerning the distribution and verification of substrate features. First, it argues against the view that both SLA and transfer are not involved in the…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Pidgins, Creoles, Second Languages