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Age Effects in Spoken Second Language Vocabulary Attainment beyond the Critical Period
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Kazuya Saito – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
The current study set out to examine to what degree age of acquisition (AOA), defined as a learner's first intensive exposure to a second language (L2) environment, mediates the final state of postpubertal, spoken vocabulary attainment. In Study 1, spontaneous speech samples were elicited from experienced Japanese users of English (n = 41) using…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Age Differences
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
Vocabulary Size Is Associated with Second-Language Vowel Perception Performance in Adult Learners
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Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke L.; Best, Catherine T.; Tyler, Michael D. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
Improvement in second-language (L2) perception has been posited to occur early in L2 learning when the L2 vocabulary is still small, whereas a large L2 vocabulary curtails perceptual learning (the perceptual assimilation model for SLA [PAM-L2]; Best & Tyler, 2007). This proposition is extended by suggesting that early L2 lexical development…
Descriptors: Vowels, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
The Effects of Induced Anxiety on Three Stages of Cognitive Processing in Computerized Vocabulary Learning.
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MacIntyre, Peter D.; Gardner, R. C. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1994
In a study of language anxiety, a video camera was introduced at various points in a vocabulary learning task. Observations of first-year university students of French revealed significant increases in anxiety when the camera was introduced, along with concomitant deficits in vocabulary acquisition. Implications for remedial action are discussed.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction