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Issa, Bernard Ibrahim; Faretta-Stutenberg, Mandy; Bowden, Harriet Wood – Modern Language Journal, 2020
This study examined linguistic development among both intermediate and advanced college-level second language (L2) learners during short-term study abroad summer programs in Spain. Participants completed a measure of overall proficiency, as well as assessments of receptive grammatical (morphosyntactic) and lexical (semantic) abilities at the…
Descriptors: Grammar, Vocabulary Development, Morphology (Languages), Language Proficiency
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Gholami, Leila – Modern Language Journal, 2022
Focus on form (FonF) studies have predominantly addressed its effectiveness in improving learners' syntactic, lexical, orthographic, and phonological knowledge. Extending the scope of this line of research to formulaic FonF practices, this study investigates the relative effectiveness of incidental FonF targeting formulaic versus nonformulaic…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kim, Kathy Minhye; Godfroid, Aline – Modern Language Journal, 2019
We examined the role of modality in learning second language (L2) grammar and forming implicit (unconscious) and explicit (conscious) knowledge. To this end, we isolated the effects of the physical medium of input (i.e., aural or visual) from those of the presentation method (i.e., word-by-word or simultaneous). We also explored the role of test…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Linguistic Input, Psycholinguistics
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Henry, Nick; Jackson, Carrie N.; Dimidio, Jack – Modern Language Journal, 2017
This study investigates the role of prosodic cues and explicit information (EI) in the acquisition of German accusative case markers. We compared 4 groups of 3rd-semester learners (low intermediate level) who completed 1 of 4 Processing Instruction (PI) treatments that manipulated the presence or absence of EI and focused prosody. The results…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Cues, German, Language Acquisition
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van Compernolle, Rémi A.; Gomez-Laich, Maria Pia; Weber, Ashley – Modern Language Journal, 2016
This study explores the teaching of second language (L2) Spanish sociopragmatics through concept-based pragmatics instruction (van Compernolle, 2014). The concepts of self-presentation, social distance, and power were the focus of a pedagogical enrichment program in 2 sections of a beginning-level Spanish class at a northeastern U.S. university.…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Pragmatics, Teaching Methods
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Thomas, Kavita E. – Modern Language Journal, 2018
This study introduces an approach to providing corrective feedback to L2 learners termed analogy-based corrective feedback that is motivated by analogical learning theories and syntactic alignment in dialogue. Learners are presented with a structurally similar synonymous version of their output where the erroneous form is corrected, and they must…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Grammar
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Mueller, Jeansue; Jiang, Nan – Modern Language Journal, 2013
An experiment investigated adult language learners' ability to develop fully integrated cognitive representations of a difficult second language (L2) morphosyntactic feature: the Korean honorific verbal affix "(u)si." Native speaker (NS) and nonnative speaker (NNS) latencies during a word-by-word self-paced reading comprehension task…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Second Language Learning, Korean, Morphology (Languages)
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Grey, Sarah; Cox, Jessica G.; Serafini, Ellen J.; Sanz, Cristina – Modern Language Journal, 2015
While research suggests that study abroad (SA) benefits second language (L2) oral fluency, its benefits for other domains are less clear, especially for shorterterm programs, which are becoming more common. Additionally, studies investigating the relationship between cognitive capacity and benefits of SA report inconsistent patterns. In light of…
Descriptors: Role, Individual Differences, Study Abroad, English
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Revesz, Andrea – Modern Language Journal, 2011
Motivated by cognitive-interactionist frameworks for task-based learning, this study explores whether task complexity affects the extent to which learners focus on form-meaning connections during task-based work in a classroom setting, and whether this relationship is modulated by 3 individual difference factors--linguistic self-confidence,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Individual Differences, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language)
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Collins, Laura; Trofimovich, Pavel; White, Joanna; Cardoso, Walcir; Horst, Marlise – Modern Language Journal, 2009
The purpose of this study was to determine whether it is possible to distinguish between "difficult" and "easy" constructions for second language (L2) learners by examining characteristics of the structures as they occur in aural input. In a multidimensional analysis of 3 English structures with different acquisition profiles--the simple past,…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning
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Kramsch, Claire J. – Modern Language Journal, 1983
German offers a good example of how syntax meets the discursive needs of speakers/hearers and writers/readers. A pedagogic grammar should put the emphasis on the ways the foreign language conceptualizes reality and on the syntactic realization of those concepts for construction of discourse. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, German, Grammar, Second Language Instruction
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Twaddell, Freeman – Modern Language Journal, 1972
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Language Instruction, Latin
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Brown, T. Grant – Modern Language Journal, 1972
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Grammar, Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory
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Decker, Henry W. – Modern Language Journal, 1976
Describes a project designed to investigate the use of computer-aided instruction in the teaching of French syntax. (CLK)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, French, Grammar
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Walmsley, John B. – Modern Language Journal, 1984
Relates the central ideas of Wilhelm Vietor to their historical context, since he was the dominant figure of his time, in the history of applied linguistics. Author shows how Vietor's reforms of foreign language teaching found acceptance in subsequent language teaching, particularly in Germany. (SL)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Grammar, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Performance
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