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Driver, Meagan – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
This study takes a mixed-methods approach to explore the influence of emotion-laden (positive vs. negative vs. neutral) texts and words on vocabulary learning for Spanish heritage and foreign language learners. Participants (N = 121) were tasked with learning emotion-laden pseudowords embedded in three emotion-laden texts centered around themes of…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Vocabulary Development, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Bijvoet, Ellen; Fraurud, Kari – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2012
This article makes a case for studying the perceptions that young people have of the ways of speaking of both themselves and others on the supposition that constructions of ambient sociolinguistic variation have an impact on the language development and use of individual language users. Such a study is particularly relevant in multilingual…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism, Young Adults, Language Variation