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Westergaard, Marit – Second Language Research, 2021
This article is a response to commentaries on the article, "Microvariation in Multilingual Situations: The Importance of Property-by-Property Acquisition" (EJ1300541). This response is divided into sections focusing on the following issues: (1) full transfer and the notion of copying; (2) the definition of linguistic proximity; (3) some…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Native Language
Al-Sobhi, Bandar Mohammad Saeed – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2019
The major aim of the current paper is to review and discuss three prevailing approaches to the study of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) since the middle of the twentieth century: Contrastive Analysis (CA, henceforth), Error Analysis (EA) and Interlanguage (IL). It begins with a general overview of how the CA approach was formulated and developed…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning
Kim, Miso – English Teaching, 2020
The purpose of this study was to analyze six English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' trajectories of discriminating near-synonyms in a data-driven learning task. Since the learners find it considerably difficult to learn subtle meaning differences of near-synonyms, corpus-based data-driven learning may provide an opportunity for them to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Task Analysis
Kibler, Amanda K.; Valdés, Guadalupe – Modern Language Journal, 2016
Through examination of one recently manufactured term for language learners (Long-term English Learners) and review of a century of "MLJ" articles, we examine varying "socioinstitutional" conceptualizations of second/foreign/heritage language learners as shaped by educational institutions and related stakeholders over time,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Definitions, Teaching Methods
Biedron, Adriana; Pawlak, Miroslaw – Language Teaching, 2016
This state-of-the art paper focuses on the issue of linguistic giftedness, somewhat neglected in the second language acquisition (SLA) literature, attempting to reconceptualize, expand and update this concept in response to latest developments in the fields of psychology, linguistics and neurology. It first discusses contemporary perspectives on…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Gifted, Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies
Kang, Jennifer Yusun – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
This study aimed to identify factors that contribute to bilingual children's decontextualized language production and investigate how schooling experience and bilingualism affect the development of this skill. The word definition skills of seventy Korean-English bilingual children whose first language was Korean, yet who had been schooled in…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Definitions
Doolan, Stephen M. – Written Communication, 2013
Recently, scholars have suggested that "second-language writers" are made up of two distinct groups: Generation 1.5 (long-term U.S.-resident language learners) and more traditional L2 students (e.g., international or recently arrived immigrants). To investigate that claim, this study compares the first-year composition writing of…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Freshman Composition, College Freshmen, English (Second Language)