Reports research examining the extent to which English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) university students' knowledge of a word can be assumed to indicate knowledge of other members of the word's family. Specifically looked at the ability of 106 graduate and undergraduate students to produce appropriate derivative forms in the four major word classes.…

In an investigation of how different types of topic reinstatements affected second language learners' recognition and recall of sentence topics in lectures, it was learned that repeated structures were more easily recalled and recognized than simple ones, and low English proficiency learners have poorer recall of complex structures. (MSE)