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Sonbul, Suhad; El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam; Masrai, Ahmed – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
Recent studies suggest that developing L2 receptive knowledge of single words is associated with increased receptive knowledge of collocations. However, no study to date has directly examined the interrelationship between productive word knowledge and productive collocation knowledge. To address this gap, the present study administered a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Phrase Structure, Vocabulary Skills, Word Frequency
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Nathan Vandeweerd; Alex Housen; Magali Paquot – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study builds upon previous research investigating the construct validity of phraseological complexity as an index of L2 development and proficiency. Whereas previous studies have focused on cross-sectional comparisons of written productions across proficiency levels, the current study compares the "longitudinal" development of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Longitudinal Studies
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Webb, Stuart; Chang, Anna C.-S. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
There has been little research investigating how mode of input affects incidental vocabulary learning, and no study examining how it affects the learning of multiword items. The aim of this study was to investigate incidental learning of L2 collocations in three different modes: reading, listening, and reading while listening. One hundred…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Phrase Structure, Undergraduate Students, Comparative Analysis
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Majuddin, Elvenna; Siyanova-Chanturia, Anna; Boers, Frank – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
There has been limited research on the efficacy of captioned second language (L2) television in facilitating the incidental acquisition of multiword expressions (MWEs). The present study aims to fill this gap. Additionally, this study examines the role of typographic enhancement and repetition. One-hundred and twenty-two L2 learners were assigned…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Television Viewing
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Kim, YouJin; Jung, YeonJoo; Skalicky, Stephen – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
The current study examined the occurrence and benefits of linguistic alignment in two modalities, face-to-face (FTF) and synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC), focusing on stranded prepositions in relative clauses. It further examined how learner characteristics (i.e., working memory, language proficiency, previous knowledge of the…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Computer Mediated Communication, Synchronous Communication
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Puimège, Eva; Peters, Elke – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
The present study explores the incidental learning of formulaic sequences (FS) from audio-visual input and factors affecting the learning of FS. A pretest-posttest, within-participant design was adopted. English-as-a-foreign-language learners (L1 = Dutch; n = 42) watched a one-hour English-language documentary without subtitles. Learning gains…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Correlation
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Armstrong, Andrew; Bulkes, Nyssa; Tanner, Darren – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
Numerous studies have demonstrated that native Mandarin speakers have pervasive difficulties processing L2 English agreement morphology. However, less is known about the lexical and morphological cues that may modulate Mandarin speakers' sensitivity to English number agreement. To investigate this, we examined subject-verb agreement processing in…
Descriptors: Cues, Language Processing, Mandarin Chinese, Nouns
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Revesz, Andrea; Michel, Marije; Lee, Minjin – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
This study investigated the cognitive processes underlying pauses at different textual locations (e.g., within/between words) and various levels of revision (e.g., below word/clause). We used stimulated recall, keystroke logging, and eye-tracking methodology in combination to examine pausing and revision behaviors. Thirty advanced Chinese L2 users…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Revision (Written Composition), English (Second Language), Language Tests
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Ozeki, Hiromi; Shirai, Yasuhiro – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2007
Although Keenan and Comrie's (1977) noun phrase accessibility hierarchy (NPAH) has been shown to predict the difficulty order of relative clauses (RCs) in SLA, most studies of the NPAH have been on European languages. This paper tests the prediction for Japanese. Study 1 analyzes RCs in an oral interview corpus from 90 learners of Japanese at four…
Descriptors: Nouns, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers
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Flynn, Suzanne – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
Fifty-one adult Spanish speakers at three levels of ESL ability were tested in both their elicited imitation (production) and act-out (comprehension) of complex sentences that were structurally identical. Analysis of variance results indicate that production tests, not comprehension tests, principally evaluate a learner's structural knowledge.…
Descriptors: Adults, Analysis of Variance, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)