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Ian Morton; C. Melanie Schuele – First Language, 2024
Comprehension of sentences with a center-embedded, object-gapped relative clause (ORC) is challenging for children as well as adults. Mismatching lexical and grammatical features of subject noun phrases (NPs) across the main clause and relative clause has been shown to facilitate comprehension. Adani et al. concluded that children's comprehension…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, Error Analysis (Language), Language Acquisition
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Sinclair, Jeanne; Jang, Eunice Eunhee; Rudzicz, Frank – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Advances in machine learning (ML) are poised to contribute to our understanding of the linguistic processes associated with successful reading comprehension, which is a critical aspect of children's educational success. We used ML techniques to investigate and compare associations between children's reading comprehension and 260 linguistic…
Descriptors: Prediction, Reading Comprehension, Natural Language Processing, Speech Communication
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Colton Seaman; Leticia Rincón Herce; Aaron Yamada – Second Language Research, 2024
Recent studies in the second language acquisition of negation have focused on polarity items and their licensing contexts. Although several studies show a correlation between higher degrees of second language (L2) proficiency and the acquisition of the target L2 structures, less attention has been given to the relation between the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Correlation
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Conwell, Erin; Auen, Amanda – Child Development, 2021
Acquisition of an argument structure may be affected by the diversity of lexical types that appear in that structure (Conwell et al., 2011; Yang, 2016). Seventy-two 5- and 6-year-old English-speaking children completed a learning study where they were exposed to a novel argument structure and then tested on their ability to comprehend it. The…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Teaching Methods, Language Processing
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Rosemary Erlam; Lan Wei – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study is a conceptual replication of Ellis' 'Measuring implicit and explicit knowledge of a second language: A psychometric study', published in "Studies in Second Language Acquisition" (2005), aiming to establish the importance of including belief statements (hypothesized to increase processing demands) in the design of Elicited…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Psychometrics
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Ky Tran Minh Uyen – Online Submission, 2023
Vietnamese learners and teachers experienced enormous difficulty in online learning during COVID-19 due to their previous limited exposure to virtual learning. The primary purpose of the study is to develop an appropriate and effective grammar instruction approach for virtual learning. To achieve that purpose, this study compared the relative…
Descriptors: Grammar, Morphemes, Teaching Methods, Language Processing
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Haghani, Mastaneh; Rashtchi, Mojgan – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
The present quasi-experimental study investigated which component of processing instruction (PI) is responsible for its beneficial effects and whether EFL learners with different learning styles similarly benefit from PI components. In doing so, a sample of 67 first-year students took part in a study with a non-equivalent control group…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar, Teaching Methods
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Miki Satori – Language Learning Journal, 2024
This study examines the knowledge representation of Japanese university students assessed using grammaticality judgement tests (GJTs) and a metalinguistic knowledge test (MKT). The study also investigates the role of automatised and non-automatised explicit knowledge in general L2 language proficiency. Participants were 87 late learners of English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Dave Kush; Anne Dahl; Filippa Lindahl – Second Language Research, 2024
Embedded questions (EQs) are islands for filler--gap dependency formation in English, but not in Norwegian. Kush and Dahl (2022) found that first language (L1) Norwegian participants often accepted filler-gap dependencies into EQs in second language (L2) English, and proposed that this reflected persistent transfer from Norwegian of the functional…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Norwegian, Native Language, Grammar
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Szudarski, Pawel; Mikolajczak, Sylwia – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study is a replication and extension of Morgan-Short et al.'s (2018) investigation into the role of attention in input processing by L1-Polish learners of L2-Spanish, with proficiency and language of assessment explored as two key methodological factors. Our aims were twofold: to investigate learners' comprehension in different conditions…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Anongnard Nusartlert – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Minority languages in diglossic situations with a majority language face the danger of eventual loss of vitality. The first sign of this is when child language acquisition begins to erode. This dissertation investigates the intergenerational transmission of the Isan language, spoken in the Northeastern region of Thailand. While the Isan community…
Descriptors: Thai, Family Relationship, Language Maintenance, Mutual Intelligibility
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Tao Zeng; Chang Xu; Jia Hu; Xiuzhi Fu – SAGE Open, 2024
This research investigated the impact of processing instruction (PI) on the acquisition of the English third-person singular present tense by Chinese English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners and whether this effect would extend to the acquisition of other language components. This study featured the pretest-immediate-posttest design and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Transfer of Training
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Pornwiriyakit, Pornchai; Dandee, Warinthon – Journal of Educational Issues, 2022
This research aims to study the problems of translating word and sentence structures from English into Thai made by students and to solve the English-to-Thai translation problems occurred in the paper test. The samples consisted of 127 students majoring in English for International Communication at Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-Ok.…
Descriptors: Grammar, Translation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Hari Windu Asrini; Arti Prihatini; Ajang Budiman; Anisa Ulfah – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Students are required to master effective sentences to support their writing skills. However, students often struggle with comprehending and constructing effective sentences due to their limited proficiency and competence. This research examines the comprehension of effective sentences through grammaticality judgment tests and its implications for…
Descriptors: Grammar, Decision Making, Language Tests, Writing Instruction
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Rashmi Ranjan Behera; Chirashree Srabani Rath; Amulya Kumar Acharya; Trupti Subhrajyoti; Sujata Acharya; Rajesh Kumar – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
Prompted by the challenges faced by teachers in balancing grammar and content in English classes, coupled with the poor English proficiency of rural Odia medium school students, the study aimed to devise an intervention that could balance content and grammar, thereby enhancing the grammar competency and content comprehension of eighth-grade…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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