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Avnit Dhanoa; Elena Nicoladis – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study tested whether Punjabi-English bilinguals feel a stronger rapport with another bilingual stranger when communicating in L1 Punjabi or their dominant L2 English. Some previous studies have shown greater emotional reactions to a dominant language. We predicted that participants would feel more comfortable speaking their dominant language.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English, Indo European Languages, Interpersonal Relationship
Albirini, Abdulkafi – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
This study examined the influence of Colloquial Arabic (CA) and English on the use of the definite article by heritage and L2 learners of Standard Arabic (SA). It also investigated the role of typological proximity in language transfer and whether transfer effects change over time. The study involved 149 participants: 73 L2 learners of SA, 61…
Descriptors: Arabic, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Native Speakers
Laméris, Tim Joris; Post, Brechtje – Second Language Research, 2023
Adult second language learners often show considerable individual variability in the ease with which lexical tones are learned. It is known that factors pertaining to a learner's first language (L1; such as L1 tonal status or L1 tone type) as well as extralinguistic factors (such as musical experience and working memory) modulate tone learning…
Descriptors: Native Language, English, Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning
Villanueva, Joey M. – Cogent Education, 2022
This study dealt with the students' language profile, metacognitive reading strategies, and reading comprehension performance adopting the descriptive-correlational method of the four hundred forty-six randomly selected students enrolled in the colleges of Forestry, Education, Engineering, Computer Science, and Information Technology in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension
Marco S. G. Senaldi; Debra Titone – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
Past work has suggested that L1 readers retrieve idioms (i.e., "spill the tea") directly vs. matched literal controls ("drink the tea") following unbiased contexts, whereas L2 readers process idioms more compositionally. However, it is unclear whether this occurs when a figuratively or literally biased context…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Figurative Language
Stratton, James M. – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2023
In a recent study, English-speaking L2 learners of German who received explicit instruction made significantly greater improvements in pronunciation and vocabulary than learners who received implicit instruction. Against the backdrop of this work, the present study reports learner preferences and perceptions about implicit and explicit language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Preferences, German
Shu-Ling Wu; Takako Nunome; Jun Wang – Second Language Research, 2024
As Chinese shows both satellite- and verb-framed properties (Slobin, 2004; Talmy, 2012, 2016), it provides a unique lens through which to observe the extent of first-language (L1) typological influence in second language (L2) acquisition of motion expressions. This study has dual purposes. First, it extends Wu's (2016) investigation on motion…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
Jo Mackiewicz; Colin Payton – Writing Center Journal, 2022
Even small, taken-for-granted words can have a strong influence on the pedagogical effect of a writing conference. In this study, we examined how experienced and trained writing center tutors' use of the discourse marker so helped them to connect ideas and to manage their conferences with students. We examined the extent to which tutors' use of…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Tutors, Discourse Analysis
Khetoa, Soyiso; Motsei, Sara – Perspectives in Education, 2021
The lack of equivalence between African languages on the one hand and Afrikaans and English on the other hand under the governments that ruled South Africa until the collapse of apartheid has seriously undermined the status of African languages. Indigenous South Africans experienced decades of marginalisation -- so much, in fact, that many,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Opinions
Xiaoping Gao; Stuart Woodcock; Jinjin Lu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study investigated English first language (L1) speakers' motivation for learning Chinese as a second language (L2) in Australia and the links of underlying motivational components to learner sociobiographical (e.g. gender and reasons for learning) and language learning variables (i.e. experience abroad, hours of self-study, and speaking with…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, College Students, Chinese, English
Misun Seo; Jayeon Lim – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This study investigates the acoustic realizations of English phonemic contrasts by Korean EFL learners, comparing their productions with those of native English speakers. Focusing on the segmentally correct production, the research aims to determine if Korean learners' acoustic properties align with those of native speakers, influenced by second…
Descriptors: Acoustics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Botezatu, Mona Roxana; Guo, Taomei; Kroll, Judith F.; Peterson, Sarah; Garcia, Dalia L. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
We evaluated external and internal sources of variation in second language (L2) and native language (L1) proficiency among college students. One hundred and twelve native-English L2 learners completed measures of L1 and L2 speaking proficiency, working memory, and cognitive control and provided self-ratings of language exposure and use. When…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
Silvia Perez-Cortes – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
Verbal morphology has been identified as a particularly vulnerable domain for adult heritage speakers (HSs) of Spanish, especially when it involves the selection of subjunctive mood. A minimal amount is known, however, about the potential effects of the variability associated with these forms on the acquisition of related epiphenomena, such as the…
Descriptors: Spanish, Phonemes, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Çanakli, Levent Ali; Bastürk, Sükrü – African Educational Research Journal, 2022
As in teaching other languages, the most difficult of the four basic skills in teaching Turkish as a foreign language is writing; it includes very different strategies from sequencing to analysis and synthesis. In addition, foreign language learners tend to transfer the forms and meanings of their own culture and language to the target language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
Penner, Kailey; de Moissac, Danielle; Rocque, Rhéa; Giasson, Florette; Prada, Kevin; Brochu, Paul – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2021
Perceived sense of belonging and positive social climate on campus are crucial elements for post-secondary students, as they contribute to academic achievement, positive mental health, and help-seeking. Few studies have explored post-secondary students' sense of belonging and perceptions of social climate in an official language minority campus,…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Social Environment, Postsecondary Education, College Students