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Zhang, Xiaopeng; Dong, Xiaoli – Second Language Research, 2019
The interaction between input frequency and constructional interference receives little attention in second language (L2) research. Two studies were conducted to test the effect of this interaction. Study 1 examined effects of both Zipfian frequency (ZF) and balanced frequency (BF) on L2 learning of English subject-extracted relative clauses…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Language Research, English (Second Language)
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Isurin, Ludmila; Seidel, Christy – Language Learning, 2015
The loss of a childhood language, especially in adoptees, has attracted scholars' attention in the past, but a search for any memory traces has yielded conflicting results. In a psycholinguistic tradition known as the savings paradigm, a learn-and-relearn technique is employed to examine whether the relearning of lexical items once known, often in…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Skill Attrition, Language Research, Adoption
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Wang, Xingrong – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This paper mainly explores the impacts of presenting new words in semantically-related (SR) sets on vocabulary learning. 38 students from two classes of Grade 2 in Taiyuan Foreign Language School (Senior High School Section) participate in the whole process. The same vocabulary items unknown to all students are taught to them in 4 lessons. The…
Descriptors: Semantics, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Language Research
Perez, Lissette – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Although many studies have suggested positive effects for speaking or output practice on L2 grammar development, the question of how speaking affects L2 grammar remains. This study specifically examines how output affects the explicit and implicit knowledge of Spanish indirect object pronouns (IOPs). It also investigates levels of L2 grammar…
Descriptors: Spanish, Form Classes (Languages), Qualitative Research, Language Research
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Isabelli-Garcia, Christina – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
The goal of this study is to describe the acquisition rate for gender acquisition in Spanish and to show whether individual variability and language contact may affect this rate. The participants were intermediate second language Spanish (first language English) learners in the study abroad and at-home contexts over a 4-month period. The…
Descriptors: Nouns, Social Behavior, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
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Mawlawi Diab, Nuwar – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2010
Previous research on the effects of peer-editing in bringing about language development generally examined the linguistic performance of only a few students and did not focus on specific language errors nor used a control group. To counteract these limitations, this study used a pre-test/post-test comparison group quasi-experimental design to…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Quasiexperimental Design, Sentence Structure
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Chang, Anna C.-S. – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2009
This study builds on the concept that aural-written verification helps L2 learners develop auditory discrimination skills, refine word recognition and gain awareness of form-meaning relationships, by comparing two modes of aural input: reading while listening (R/L) vs. listening only (L/O). Two test tasks (sequencing and gap filling) of 95 items,…
Descriptors: Test Results, Student Evaluation, Literary Genres, Pretests Posttests
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Sheen, Younghee; Wright, David; Moldawa, Anna – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2009
Building on Sheen's (2007) study of the effects of written corrective feedback (CF) on the acquisition of English articles, this article investigated whether direct focused CF, direct unfocused CF and writing practice alone produced differential effects on the accurate use of grammatical forms by adult ESL learners. Using six intact adult ESL…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Adult Students
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Izumi, Shinichi; Bigelow, Martha – TESOL Quarterly, 2000
Reports the results of research attempting to document the role of learners' linguistic output in drawing their attention to linguistic form and in acquiring the form. Compares experimental and comparison groups that participated in a pretest, two post-tests, and four learning tasks. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Research