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Age of Onset and Nativelikeness in a Second Language: Listener Perception versus Linguistic Scrutiny
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Abrahamsson, Niclas; Hyltenstam, Kenneth – Language Learning, 2009
The incidence of nativelikeness in adult second language acquisition is a controversial issue in SLA research. Although some researchers claim that any learner, regardless of age of acquisition, can attain nativelike levels of second language (L2) proficiency, others hold that attainment of nativelike proficiency is, in principle, impossible. The…
Descriptors: Age, Second Language Learning, Language Research, Adult Learning
Grammatical Errors as a Function of Processing Constraints and Explicit Knowledge.
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Hulstijn, Jan H.; Hulstijn, Wouter – Language Learning, 1984
Investigates the influence of time pressure and focus of attention on the correct use of two Dutch word order rules in the speech of 32 adult learners of the language. The relation between explicitness of rule knowledge, assessed in an interview, and rule application, elicited in the experiment, is also discussed. (EKN)
Descriptors: Dutch, Error Analysis (Language), Language Research, Linguistic Competence
The Monitor Model: Some Methodological Considerations.
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McLaughlin, Barry – Language Learning, 1978
Examines the Monitor Model of adult second language acquisition, and presents an alternate model that avoids difficulties inherent in the Monitor Model and that corresponds to contemporary language development theory. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Language Research
On Routines and Patterns in Language Acquisition and Performance.
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Krashen, Stephen; Scarcella, Robin – Language Learning, 1978
Examines the role of "routines" and grammatical patterns in first and second language acquisition by children and adults, specifically with regard to syntactic structures. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Empirical Investigations of Indirectly Conveyed Meaning: Assertion versus Presupposition in First and Second Language Acquisition.
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Carrell, Patricia L. – Language Learning, 1977
The theoretical linguistic distinction between assertion and presupposition was empirically tested with two groups of subjects, young children acquiring English as their first language and adults acquiring English as a second language. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Child Language, English, English (Second Language)