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Luke West – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Dynamic visuospatial support (DVS) is an effective tool for helping people learn linguistic tones (Hannah et al., 2017, Morett et al., 2022, Zhen et al., 2019), and learn words with these tonal categories (Baills et al., 2019, Morett et al., 2015). Progress in the field of embodied cognition and learning has led to recent emphasis on the pitch…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages, Intonation, Phonology
Marwa Abd Al Galil Helmy Abd Al Galil – Online Submission, 2024
The purpose of the current study was to examine the effect of utilizing a program based on post-constructivism to develop adult learners' English language fluency. The study started with the literature review and previous studies handling post-constructivism and English language fluency. The researcher nominated a group of pre-intermediate to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Ahn, Sunyoung; Jiang, Nan – Second Language Research, 2023
The present study investigated whether adult learners of second language (L2) can automatically activate emotional connotation during emotional word recognition as compared native (L1) users and whether L2 use plays a significant role in it. The automaticity of activation was measured through the emotional Stroop task. In this task, emotional…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
Kelli Norgaard – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Adult second-language learners are a growing population of students in many countries throughout the world as the global community continues to expand beyond not only physical borders, but cultural and language borders as well. 200 expatriates, who lived in Denmark during the time span of 2006-2016, who were required to show proficiency in their…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Adult Learning, Foreign Countries
Judy, Tiffany; Puig-Mayenco, Eloi; Chaouch-Orozco, Adel; Martín-Villena, Fernando; Miller, David – Second Language Research, 2023
This study tests the Competing Systems Hypothesis (CSH) as applied to adult second language acquisition of aspect in Spanish. The CSH purports that differences among tutored and untutored learners result from competition between one system of underlying grammatical knowledge and another of learned metalinguistic knowledge in tutored learners…
Descriptors: English, Native Language, Spanish, Second Language Learning
Ke, Sihui; Koda, Keiko – Applied Linguistics, 2019
This study examined whether vocabulary knowledge is sufficient for second language (L2) word-meaning inferencing. Specifically, it investigated the role of the learner's sensitivity to a word's morphological structure (referred to 'morphological awareness' or 'MA' hereafter) as additional support that enhances multi-character word-meaning…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Morphology (Languages), Predictor Variables, Second Language Learning
Doughty, Catherine J. – Language Learning, 2019
After discussing key issues in the aptitude literature and presenting an updated, multicomponential model of cognitive language aptitude, we consider two analyses from a longitudinal investigation using aptitude to predict success in language learning. Aptitude is conceptualized as a special talent for learning languages and a ceiling on success.…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Learning Motivation, Language Skills, Cognitive Ability
Smith, E. Halle; Hollander, John; Graesser, Art C.; Sabatini, John; Hu, Xiangen – English Teaching, 2021
Facing the demands of the pandemic and distance learning, English learners require educational technologies that are accessible, engaging, and effective. Meeting these demands requires educational technology developers to consider learners' sociocultural contexts. Learning theories can be applied to meet individuals' needs to optimize chances for…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ryo Maie – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Skill acquisition theorists conceptualize second language (L2) learning as the acquisition of a set of perceptual, cognitive, and motor skills. The dominant view in skill acquisition theory is to regard L2 skill acquisition as a three-stage process "from initial representation of knowledge through initial changes in behavior to eventual…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory, Learning Processes
Schepens, Job J.; van Hout, Roeland W. N. M.; van der Slik, Frans W. P. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
We investigated age-related decline in adult learning of Dutch as an additional language (Ln) in speaking, writing, listening, and reading proficiency test scores for 56,024 adult immigrants with 50 L1s who came to the Netherlands for study or work. Performance for all four language skills turned out to decline monotonically after an age of…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Cognitive Ability, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Fuhrman, Orly; Eckerling, Anabel; Friedmann, Naama; Tarrasch, Ricardo; Raz, Gal – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2021
A challenging aspect of foreign language acquisition is learning new vocabulary. Research has demonstrated the benefits of motor action to vocabulary learning, though these findings are rarely translated into teaching and learning practices. In this work, we present a novel paradigm for vocabulary learning in a virtual reality environment,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Recall (Psychology)
Yassin, Baderaddin; Abugohar, Mohammed Abdulgalil – Teaching English with Technology, 2022
The lack of opportunities to practice the English language outside the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom can prevent English language learners (ELLs) from promoting their language proficiency to high standards. This lack makes the progress from one level of English to the next one a hard mission for Arab students. Subsequently,…
Descriptors: Gamification, Computer Assisted Instruction, Handheld Devices, Second Language Learning
Kim, Peter – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2021
Foreign language aptitude is defined as one's potential to learn a second language. A language learner with higher aptitude is predicted to learn more, faster, and reach a higher level of proficiency. If this is the case, one way to validate the construct of aptitude and its measure is to conduct a validation study in which measures of aptitude is…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Chi, Yao-Kai – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study discusses the relationship between Taiwanese adult learners' identity development and language curriculum, exploring how students (re)constructed their identities within the Taiwanese social context. Influenced by exam culture and educational credentialism, Taiwanese language education is mainly exam-oriented and teacher-centered.…
Descriptors: Turkish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Bell, Philippa K. – Applied Linguistics, 2017
Do adults learn the same syntactic second language (L2) form explicitly and implicitly simultaneously during meaning-based exposure, and does the type of learning (explicit and/or implicit) affect subsequent performance. In this study, 81 anglophones completed comprehension tasks providing incidental exposure to a semi-artificial language (English…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), German