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Sonbul, Suhad; El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam; Masrai, Ahmed – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
Recent studies suggest that developing L2 receptive knowledge of single words is associated with increased receptive knowledge of collocations. However, no study to date has directly examined the interrelationship between productive word knowledge and productive collocation knowledge. To address this gap, the present study administered a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Phrase Structure, Vocabulary Skills, Word Frequency
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Webb, Stuart; Chang, Anna C.-S. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
There has been little research investigating how mode of input affects incidental vocabulary learning, and no study examining how it affects the learning of multiword items. The aim of this study was to investigate incidental learning of L2 collocations in three different modes: reading, listening, and reading while listening. One hundred…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Phrase Structure, Undergraduate Students, Comparative Analysis
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Terai, Masato; Yamashita, Junko; Pasich, Kelly E. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
In paired-associate learning, there are two learning directions: L2 to L1 (L2 words as stimuli and L1 words as responses) and L1 to L2 (L1 words as stimuli and L2 words as responses). Results of previous studies that compared the effects of the two learning directions are not consistent. We speculated that the cause of this inconsistency may be L2…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Contemori, Carla; Mossman, Sabrina; Ramos, Alba K. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
Learners of a nonnull subject language (e.g., English) whose first language (L1) is a null subject language (e.g., Spanish) can show some optionality in the interpretation of overt subject pronouns in the second language (L2). By exposing L2 learners to nativelike interpretations of pronouns in discourse, we aim at understanding how exposure can…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Spanish
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De Wilde, Vanessa; Brysbaert, Marc; Eyckmans, June – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
A second language can be learned inside and outside the classroom. In this study we investigated the English and French vocabulary knowledge of 110 Dutch-speaking children (age 10-12), who received 100 hours of instruction in French, whereas their contact with English came from out-of-school exposure only. We examined the role of individual…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Second Language Learning, French, Vocabulary Development
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Vu, Duy Van; Peters, Elke – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
This longitudinal study investigates the effect of mode of reading on the incidental learning of collocations and factors that affect learning. One hundred Vietnamese pre-intermediate learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) were assigned to either an experimental group or a control group (no treatment). In 9 weeks, the experimental group…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Phrase Structure, Vocabulary Development, Predictor Variables
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Taguchi, Naoko; Hirschi, Kevin; Kang, Okim – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
This study investigated whether L2 English learners' prosodic properties in speech acts change as they are immersed in the English-speaking academic community over time, and if so, what individual and contextual factors (proficiency, orientation to language study, and target language contact) potentially affect these changes. Forty-seven Japanese…
Descriptors: Intonation, Speech Acts, Suprasegmentals, Phonology
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Nakata, Tatsuya; Suzuki, Yuichi – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
Although researchers argue that studying semantically related words simultaneously (semantic clustering) inhibits vocabulary acquisition, recent studies have yielded inconsistent results. This study examined the effects of semantic clustering while addressing the limitations of previous studies (e.g., confounding of semantic relatedness with other…
Descriptors: Semantics, Vocabulary Development, Interference (Language), Learning Processes
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Papi, Mostafa – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
The study examined the predictions of regulatory fit theory (Higgins, 2000) in relation to task-based incidental vocabulary learning. A total of 189 English as a second language learners completed a vocabulary pretest, a regulatory focus questionnaire, an integrated reading/writing task, and finally an unannounced vocabulary posttest. The…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Incidental Learning
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Feng, Shuo – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
By replicating Cho (2017), this article investigates how second language (L2) learners with an article-less first language acquire two types of English definiteness, anaphoric and nonanaphoric. Mandarin Chinese, as an article-less language, has a demonstrative determiner that shares the same feature set as the English definite article…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Nouns
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Puimège, Eva; Peters, Elke – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
The present study explores the incidental learning of formulaic sequences (FS) from audio-visual input and factors affecting the learning of FS. A pretest-posttest, within-participant design was adopted. English-as-a-foreign-language learners (L1 = Dutch; n = 42) watched a one-hour English-language documentary without subtitles. Learning gains…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Correlation
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Zobl, Helmut – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1984
Investigates whether the Wave Model of linguistic change can furnish a valid idealization for the patterning of variation in interlanguage systems and a scale for determining degree of naturalness. Data from 162 French-speaking adult learners were used to analyze the variability in the evolution of the English possessive determiners…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Determiners (Languages), English (Second Language), French
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Mazurkewich, Irene – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1985
Argues that Chomsky's theory of generative grammar provides a model for second language acquisition that meets the criteria of descriptive and exploratory adequacy in accounting for the language learning process. Illustrates this by presenting data on the acquisition of dative complements and dative questions in a passive context by second…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), English (Second Language), Eskimos, French
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Abraham, Roberta – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1983
Questions whether observed differences in use of strategy of monitoring is related to the following cognitive styles: field independence, reflection, flexible control, and preference for processing information by the written word. Field independence was positively related to amount of monitoring on all written tasks, and reflection was weakly but…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
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Pica, Teresa; And Others – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1989
A study investigated how second language learners responded when native speakers signaled difficulty in understanding them. Types and frequency of learner responses were examined in relation to communication tasks and to native speakers' different signal types. Results supported the construct of comprehensible output, the influence of linguistic…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
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