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Starr, Rebecca Lurie – Multilingual Matters, 2016
This book investigates the acquisition of sociolinguistic knowledge in the early elementary school years of a Mandarin-English two-way immersion program in the United States. Using ethnographic observation and quantitative analysis of data, the author explores how input from teachers and classmates shapes students' language acquisition. The book…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Language Acquisition, Elementary School Students
Schwartz, Misha; Goad, Heather – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2017
This article proposes that second language learners can use indirect positive evidence (IPE) to acquire a phonological grammar that is a subset of their L1 grammar. IPE is evidence from errors in the learner's L1 made by native speakers of the learner's L2. It has been assumed that subset grammars may be acquired using direct or indirect negative…
Descriptors: Grammar, Native Language, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning
Barron, Anne; Pandarova, Irina; Muderack, Karoline – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2015
The present study, situated in the area of variational pragmatics, contrasts tag question (TQ) use in Ireland and Great Britain using spoken data from the Irish and British components of the International Corpus of English (ICE). Analysis is on the formal and functional level and also investigates form-functional relationships. Findings reveal…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Computational Linguistics, Pragmatics, Foreign Countries
Terry, Kristen M. Kennedy – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
This study uses a mixed-effects model to examine the acquisition of targetlike patterns of phonological variation by 17 English-speaking learners of French during study abroad in France. Naturalistic speech data provide evidence for the incipient acquisition of a phonological variable showing sociostylistic variation in native speaker speech: the…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Learning, Study Abroad, Phonology
Hohaus, Vera; Tiemann, Sonja; Beck, Sigrid – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2014
This article presents a study on the time course of the acquisition of comparison constructions. The order in which comparison constructions (comparatives, measure phrases, superlatives, degree questions, etc.) show up in English- and German-learning children's spontaneous speech is quite fixed. It is shown to be insufficiently determined by…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, German, Grammar, Phrase Structure
Connell, Louise; Lynott, Dermot – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Perceptual simulations are unconscious and automatic, whereas perceptual imagery is conscious and deliberate, but it is unclear how easily one can transfer perceptual information from unconscious to conscious awareness. We investigated whether it is possible to be aware of what one is mentally representing; that is, whether it is possible to…
Descriptors: Simulation, Cognitive Processes, Imagery, Metacognition
Chen, Jingwen – English Language Teaching, 2017
"Although" is a frequently used subordinating conjunction in English. However, non-nativeness is often observed in Chinese EFL learners' "although" output during pedagogical practice. This paper aims at exploring the characteristics of Chinese EFL learners' "although" employment in Chinese EFL learners' writing. The…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Czerwionka, Lori; Cuza, Alejandro – Hispania, 2017
The current study examines English-speaking learners of Spanish and their pragmatic development of request forms during a six-week immersion program in Madrid, Spain. Elicited production and intuition data were analyzed, focusing on personal deictic orientation, directness evidenced by clause type, and the use of "por favor"…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics
Dunstan, Stephany Brett; Jaeger, Audrey J. – Journal of Higher Education, 2015
The dialects that college students speak represent a type of diversity that can influence many elements of their experiences in college, including academic experiences. In this study, we examined the influence of speaking a stigmatized dialect on academic experiences for White and African American students (both male and female) from rural…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, African American Students, Language Variation, Educational Experience
Bianchi, Robert Michael – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012
The term "glocal" has been used to describe phenomena that simultaneously blend both global and local elements (see Featherstone, Lash, & Robertson, 1995, p. 101). Nowhere is this more evident than in the existence of 3arabizi, itself a blended language composed of English and Vernacular Arabic, written in Latin letters but using…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Linguistic Borrowing, Language Variation, English (Second Language)
Oliver, Rhonda; Rochecouste, Judith; Vanderford, Samantha; Grote, Ellen – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2011
Repeated assessments of literacy skills have shown that Aboriginal students do not achieve at the same level as their non-Aboriginal peers. Many Aboriginal students speak Aboriginal English, a dialect different from the Standard Australian English used in schools. Research shows that it is crucial for educators in bidialectal contexts to be aware…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Knowledge Level
Sasayama, Shoko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
This study investigated contemporary Japanese college students' attitudes towards Japan English (JE) and American English (AE) through a verbal guise test (VGT) as well as a questionnaire. Forty-four Japanese college students listened to four Japanese and four North Americans reading a text in English, rated them in terms of solidarity-related…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Language Attitudes, Questionnaires
Lockwood, Michael – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2012
This paper reports the findings of a small-scale research project which investigated the levels of awareness and knowledge of written standard English of 10 and 11-year-old children in two English primary schools. The project involved repeating in 2010 a written questionnaire previously used with children in the same schools in three separate…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Standard Spoken Usage, Language Variation, English
Muench, Kristin L.; Creel, Sarah C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Learners frequently experience phonologically inconsistent input, such as exposure to multiple accents. Yet, little is known about the consequences of phonological inconsistency for language learning. The current study examines vocabulary acquisition with different degrees of phonological inconsistency, ranging from no inconsistency (e.g., both…
Descriptors: Phonology, Vocabulary Development, Learning Problems, Linguistic Input
Degani, Marta; Onysko, Alexander – World Englishes, 2010
This study investigates hybrid compound formation of Maori and English terms in present day New Zealand English (NZE). On the background of Maori and English language contact, the phenomenon of hybrid compounding emerges as a process that, on the one hand, symbolizes the vitality of the Maori element in NZE and, on the other hand, marks the…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Language Research, Linguistic Borrowing, Semantics
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