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Vicky Chondrogianni; Morna Butcher – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study investigated the psycholinguistic and child-related variables that modulate vocabulary development and the so-called receptive-expressive gap in child L2 learners of Gaelic with English as their L1. In total, 50 6- to 8-year-old English-Gaelic bilingual children attending Gaelic-medium immersion education were administered the English…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Children, Bilingual Students, English
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Foster, Pauline; Bolibaugh, Cylcia; Kotula, Agnieszka – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2014
It is well established that part of native speaker competence resides in knowledge of conventionalized word combinations, or nativelike selections (NLSs). This article reports an investigation into the receptive NLS knowledge of second language (L2) users of English in both the United Kingdom and Poland and the influence of a variety of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Receptive Language, Second Language Learning