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Pablo Araya Cortés; Cristian Macías Domínguez; Luis Pires Jiménez; Rosa Santero Sánchez; Ismael Sanz Labrador – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
This article examines the impact of within-class age differences on educational outcomes, using students' birth months in Madrid's primary schools as a natural experiment. Employing a regression discontinuity design, we analyze third-grade students to investigate these age-related effects. Additionally, we explore whether early childhood education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 3, Age Differences, Early Childhood Education
Mills, Shantel; Nicoladis, Elena – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Previous research has shown that bilinguals respond differently to moral dilemmas posed in each of their languages, tending to make deontologically-based decisions (based on right or wrong) in their first language and utilitarian decisions (bringing about the most good) in their second language. In the present study, we tested several predictors…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Moral Values, Predictor Variables, Native Language
Miki Satori – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2025
This study investigated the relative contributions of English morphological and vocabulary knowledge to second language (L2) reading comprehension among 100 adult Japanese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. The study also investigated the extent to which the roles of morphological and vocabulary knowledge in L2 reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Antonicelli, Giada; Rastelli, Stefano – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2023
Event-related potentials (ERPs) have become widespread in second language acquisition (SLA) research and a growing body of literature has been produced in recent years. We surveyed 61 SLA papers that use ERPs to study L2 sentence processing in healthy late learners. Our main aim was to provide a critical summary of findings from the decade…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests, Language Proficiency, Sentences
Agnieszka Ewa Krautz – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Feeling like a different person when speaking different languages has been investigated before and attributed to several linguistic as well as psychological factors. Language proficiency, the context of language acquisition, personality traits, emotional intelligence, and the topic of conversation as well as the interlocutor have been found to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Second Language Learning, Personality Traits, Language Proficiency
Gärdenfors, Moa – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2023
This article describes the lexical and syntactic development of written narratives in 24 deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students aged between 8 and 18 and takes into account how their varying linguistic backgrounds may predict their written performance. All participants use spoken Swedish, but the study also considers their proficiency in Swedish…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
Schmid, Monika S.; Karayayla, Tugba – Language Learning, 2020
Recent decades have seen an increase in research informing our understanding of the complex ways in which bilingual development is shaped by biological, cognitive, and behavioral factors. We investigate the predictors that shape, drive, and constrain the development of the first language (L1) of bilinguals, focusing on 92 Turkish-English bilingual…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Language Acquisition
Schroeder, Scott R.; Lam, Tuan Q.; Marian, Viorica – Applied Linguistics, 2017
Most of the world's population has knowledge of at least two languages. Many of these bilinguals are also exposed to and identify with at least two cultures. Because language knowledge enables participation in cultural practices and expression of cultural beliefs, bilingual experience and cultural identity are interconnected. However, the specific…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Bilingualism, Questionnaires, Cultural Influences
De Wilde, Vanessa; Brysbaert, Marc; Eyckmans, June – Language Learning, 2020
This study aimed to investigate which word-related variables play a role in Dutch-speaking children's L2 word learning through out-of-school exposure prior to classroom instruction in the foreign language. We used different measures to investigate the role of frequency, concreteness, cognateness, and age of acquisition (AoA) in receptive…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Receptive Language
May, Emily M.; Witherspoon, Dawn P. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Hispanic adolescents have high expectations for their own educational attainment, but educational attainment outcomes for Hispanic young adults are relatively low on average. Limited scholarship links Hispanic adolescents' educational expectations with attainment in adulthood. Using a longitudinal within-group approach, the authors examined…
Descriptors: Expectation, Hispanic American Students, Educational Attainment, Adolescent Attitudes
Bastien, Gilberte; Seifen-Adkins, Tanja; Johnson, Laura R. – Journal of International Students, 2018
Few studies have provided an examination of the academic component of acculturation. This study sought to extend the work in this area by examining factors impacting academic adjustment of international students in the US and compare results to factors of psychological adjustment. Predictors of academic adjustment were investigated with a sample…
Descriptors: Success, Student Adjustment, Academic Achievement, Acculturation
Pretorius, Elizabeth J.; Stoffelsma, Lieke – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2017
In this article, we report on a study that examined the active and receptive English vocabulary of two different groups of Grade 3 learners in South African township schools. The groups consisted of English Home Language (HL) learners in the Western Cape and Xhosa HL and English First Additional Language (FAL) learners in the Eastern Cape. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development, Receptive Language, Expressive Language
Nour, Mona Dina – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The recent influx of immigration to the United States has naturally led to a population increase of U.S. born children with immigrant parents. These bicultural individuals undertake the complex task of constructing identities drawn from dual, and sometimes multiple, cultural foundations. This study examined sense of belonging and perceived…
Descriptors: Immigrants, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Garcia de Blakeley, Marta; Ford, Ruth; Casey, Leanne – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
Research into second language anxiety (SLA) has largely focused on second language learners rather than immigrants. However, living in an environment where the target language (TL) is the language of everyday communication may constitute a significant source of anxiety that generalises beyond the language classroom [Pappamihiel, N. E. 2001.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Hispanic Americans
Crossley, Scott A.; Kim, YouJin – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
The current study examined the effects of text-based relational (i.e., cohesion), propositional-specific (i.e., lexical), and syntactic features in a source text on subsequent integration of the source text in spoken responses. It further investigated the effects of word integration on human ratings of speaking performance while taking into…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Syntax, Oral Language, Speech Communication