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Direct linkReuterskiöld, Christina; Hallin, Anna Eva; Nair, Vishnu K. K.; Hansson, Kristina – Applied Linguistics, 2021
This article provides an overview of the research on morpho-syntactic challenges in Swedish-speaking children with developmental language disorder (DLD), compared with typically developing (TD) children learning Swedish as their first and second language (L1/L2). Children with DLD show vulnerabilities with verb finiteness, the possessive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Swedish, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
Polat, Nihat; Mahalingappa, Laura; Mancilla, Rae L. – Applied Linguistics, 2020
This longitudinal study examined growth patterns of written syntactic complexity of Turkish learners of English. Using a nonexperimental corpus of 852 writing samples by 284 English as a foreign language (EFL) learners over three semesters, the study addressed the following questions: which indices of syntactic complexity characterize the writing…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Polat, Brittany; Kim, Youjin – Applied Linguistics, 2014
This longitudinal case study follows a dynamic systems approach to investigate an under-studied research area in second language acquisition, the development of complexity and accuracy for an advanced untutored learner of English. Using the analytical tools of dynamic systems theory (Verspoor et al. 2011) within the framework of complexity,…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies, Immigrants, Foreign Countries
Yiakoumetti, Androula – Applied Linguistics, 2006
This study addresses bidialectism by investigating the linguistic situation on the bidialectal island of Cyprus where Standard Modern Greek (SMG) and the regional Cypriot dialect (CD) are both routinely used. The study implemented a language programme that embraced both sociolinguistic and educational factors and was designed to teach SMG by using…
Descriptors: Syntax, Phonology, Dialects, Standard Spoken Usage
Peer reviewedStubbs, Michael – Applied Linguistics, 1994
Analyzes the use of language in two British and Australian secondary school textbooks and a corpus of written British English of one million words. Significant differences were found in the distribution of syntactic patterns in the two books, and these differences are discussed as evidence of the ideological stances expressed in the books.…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedTomiyama, Machiko – Applied Linguistics, 2000
Examines the second stage of natural second language attrition in the first language environment observed in a Japanese male returnee child. The subject spent 7 years in the United States, was 8-years-old when he returned, and was highly proficient in English. The second stage is characterized by a period of change in syntax and morphology,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
