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Derwing, Tracey M.; Munro, Murray J.; Foote, Jennifer A.; Waugh, Erin; Fleming, Jason – Language Learning, 2014
We present the outcomes of a pronunciation training program conducted in a workplace setting with second language speakers who had lived in an English-speaking environment for an average of 19 years. The research questions concerned whether improvement would occur in the learners' perception of certain segments and prosody; in the…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction, Workplace Learning, Language Tests
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Ramirez-Esparza, Nairan; Harris, Kathryn; Hellermann, John; Richard, Clemence; Kuhl, Patricia K.; Reder, Steve – Language Learning, 2012
Drawing on a large corpus of video-recorded classroom data, the goal of this study was to understand the processes and mechanisms associated with learning in individuals who have had little education in their home countries. In order to accomplish this goal, we measured the socio-interactive behaviors and the expression of personality behaviors in…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
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Mackey, Alison; Sachs, Rebecca – Language Learning, 2012
A great deal of research into second-language (L2) development focuses on the role of cognitive factors and other individual differences. Studies of children and prime-of-life adult L2 learners suggest that differences exist in the learning processes of these groups. However, to date, little empirical work has been conducted with older adult…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Older Adults
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Llanes, Angels; Munoz, Carmen – Language Learning, 2013
This study examines the effects of learning context and age on second language development by comparing the language gains, measured in terms of oral and written fluency, lexical and syntactic complexity, and accuracy, experienced by four groups of learners of English: children in a study abroad setting, children in their at-home school, adults in…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Fluency, Language Acquisition, Achievement Gains
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Ellis, Nick C. – Language Learning, 2008
McCormack and Hoerl's state of the art review of the development of temporal concepts from the end of infancy to the end of the fifth year shows that young children's conception of time is quite different from that of adults. Adults and 5-year-old children can construe an event from a range of temporal perspectives and can describe it from a…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Semantics, Verbs, Child Language
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Hanania, Edith A. S.; Gradman, Harry L. – Language Learning, 1977
The longitudinal case study reported here provides some information about early stages of learning ESL and factors affecting language development. Comparison reveals striking similarities to first language acquisition sequences, and therefore a similarity in adult and child learning. (CHK)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Age Differences, English (Second Language), Language Acquisition
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Kleinmann, Howard H. – Language Learning, 1977
A study was designed to ascertain whether syntactic avoidance behavior could be demonstrated for two groups of ESL learners (native speakers of Arabic and of Spanish and Portuguese) in accordance with contrastive analysis difficulty predictions. An avoidance pattern was found in accordance with such predictions. (CHK)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Interference (Language)
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Fuller, Judith W.; Gundel, Jeannette K. – Language Learning, 1987
Investigates the role of topic-comment structure and the frequency of topic-prominence in the oral interlanguage of Chinese- Japanese-, Korean-, Arabic-, Farsi-, and Spanish-speaking adult students of English as a second language. Results indicate that second language learning is generally characterized by an early topic-comment stage, independent…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Interference (Language)
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Krashen, Stephen D.; And Others – Language Learning, 1976
Discusses the results of the administration of the SLOPE test, a measure of oral production, to 66 adult speakers of English as a second language. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, English (Second Language), Language Acquisition, Language Tests
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Berent, Gerald P. – Language Learning, 1985
Describes two experiments which assessed the ability of adult second language (L2) learners to produce and comprehend real, unreal, and past unreal English conditional sentences. Developmental differences are analyzed in relation to distinctive features. The analyses lend support to the explanatory power of markedness theory in explaining L2…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Comprehension, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
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Chapelle, Carol; Roberts, Cheryl – Language Learning, 1986
Reports on a study of the influence of cognitive/affective variables on the second language learning ability of adults. Two variables, field independence and ambiguity tolerance, were found to be significant predictors of English as a second language proficiency for international students studying in the United States. (SED)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Cognitive Style, English (Second Language), Field Dependence Independence