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Direct linkUchihara, Takumi; Webb, Stuart; Saito, Kazuya; Trofimovich, Pavel – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
Eighty Japanese learners of English as a foreign language encountered 40 target words in one of four experimental conditions (three encounters, six encounters, three encounters with talker variability, and six encounters with talker variability). A picture-naming test was conducted three times (pretest, immediate posttest, and delayed posttest)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Oral Language
Saito, Kazuya; Webb, Stuart; Trofimovich, Pavel; Isaacs, Talia – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2016
This study examined contributions of lexical factors to native-speaking raters' assessments of comprehensibility (ease of understanding) of second language (L2) speech. Extemporaneous oral narratives elicited from 40 French speakers of L2 English were transcribed and evaluated for comprehensibility by 10 raters. Subsequently, the samples were…
Descriptors: Profiles, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, Evaluators
Benmamoun, Elabbas; Albirini, Abdulkafi – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
This study examines heritage speakers' knowledge of Standard Arabic (SA) and compares their patterns of SA acquisition to those of learners of SA as second/foreign language (L2). In addition, the study examines the influence of previously acquired language varieties, including Colloquial Arabic (QA), on SA acquisition. To this end, the study…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Albirini, Abdulkafi; Benmamoun, Elabbas; Saadah, Eman – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
This study presents an investigation of oral narratives collected from heritage Egyptian and Palestinian Arabic speakers living in the United States. The focus is on a number of syntactic and morphological features in their production, such as word order, use of null subjects, selection of prepositions, agreement, and possession. The degree of…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Semitic Languages, Language Dominance, Grammar
Peer reviewedWilliams, Jessica – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1988
An examination of native and non-native speakers'use of zero anaphora in English production found a similar general discourse function across the groups, although the English was frequently ungrammatical by prescriptive standards. There were important quantitative and structural differences between speaker groups in use of the device. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English, Grammatical Acceptability, Language Variation
Rehner, Katherine; Mougeon, Raymond; Nadasdi, Terry – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
This paper synthesizes research on the acquisition of linguistic variation by learners of French as a second language--an overview that, to our knowledge, is the first of its kind. It also presents a case study on French immersion students' acquisition of the pronouns "nous" and "on" "we," an alternation in many varieties of spoken French. The…
Descriptors: Language Variation, French, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning
