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Geer, Leah C.; Keane, Jonathan – Language Teaching Research, 2018
Students acquiring American Sign Language (ASL) as a second language (L2) struggle with fingerspelling comprehension more than skilled signers. These L2 learners might be attempting to perceive and comprehend fingerspelling in a way that is different from native signers, which could negatively impact their ability to comprehend fingerspelling.…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Finger Spelling, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Geluso, Joe; Yamaguchi, Atsumi – ReCALL, 2014
Corpus linguistics has established that language is highly patterned. The use of patterned language has been linked to processing advantages with respect to listening and reading, which has implications for perceptions of fluency. The last twenty years has seen an increase in the integration of corpus-based language learning, or data-driven…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computational Linguistics, Language Processing
Nippold, Marilyn A., Ed.; Scott, Cheryl M., Ed. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009
School success in the 21st century requires proficiency with expository discourse--the use and understanding of informative language in spoken and written modalities. This occurs, for example, when high school students read their textbooks and listen to their teachers' lectures, and later are asked to demonstrate their knowledge of this complex…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Text Structure, Intervention
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Green, Peter S.; Hecht, Karlheinz – Language Awareness, 1993
The aims, content, and methods of language awareness in the German "Gymnasium" curriculum are presented and compared with other, especially English, models. Pupils' command of metalanguage is also reported, including results of a test to assess their level of language awareness and its relationship to linguistic competence. (29…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Language Processing
Webbert, Victoria Vazquez – Online Submission, 2007
In this theoretical dissertation my aim is to research the academic literature in the field of second language acquisition (SLA), compare it to the life experiences of past and/or present students, colleagues, children and myself to reflect and summarize my learning in the form of a conceptual framework that I have named, "Framework for…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Critical Theory, Second Language Learning, Prior Learning