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Yuan Xie; Peng Zhou – First Language, 2024
Associative anaphora refers to a discourse operation that links a definite determiner phrase (DP) to an antecedent that acts as an indirect referent of the definite DP. For example, in the sequence 'I bought a laptop. The keyboard was black', the definite DP 'the keyboard' is linked to 'a laptop', meaning 'the keyboard of the laptop'. The…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Preschool Children, Semantics, Child Development
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Elin Thordardottir; Ludivine Plez – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Background: Bilingual assessment is particularly difficult in the very first period of children's second language (L2) exposure. This exploratory, longitudinal study examined L2 learning after 1 and 2 years of L2 exposure by young immigrants and how it is affected by their age at first exposure to the L2 (AoE). Method: Participants were 18…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Groups, Preschool Children, Adolescents
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Kietnawin Sridhanyarat; Supong Tangkiengsirisin – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
The purpose of this study is two-fold: 1) to investigate the effects of Data-Driven Learning (DDL) framed within the Involvement Load Hypothesis (ILH) on Thai learners' use of academic collocations and 2) to examine how Thai learners utilized the involvement load (IL) components (need, search, and evaluation) to master academic collocations. It is…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Cognitive Ability, Language Tests, Phrase Structure