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Mélanie Havy – First Language, 2024
In everyday life, children hear but also often see their caregiver talking. Children build on this correspondence to resolve auditory uncertainties and decipher words from the speech input. As they hear the name of an object, 18- to 30-month-olds form a representation that permits word recognition in either the auditory (i.e. acoustic form of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, French, Language Acquisition
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Eika, Evelyn; Hsieh, Yining – First Language, 2017
Students in South East Asia often struggle with English /l/ and /r/. This study therefore set out to examine how Taiwanese pupils' perception of these sounds is influenced by cross-language effects. Most Taiwanese students have Mandarin as L1 and Taiwanese as L2 or vice versa, and English as L3. A same-different discrimination experiment was…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries