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Kiva Marjorie Bennett – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Research over the past two decades has reported a robust relationship between relative social status and first-person singular (FPS) pronoun use in English. For my dissertation study, I wanted to test the replicability of those findings using American Sign Language (ASL) data that I collected for this purpose. In alignment with previous work, I…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Social Status, Form Classes (Languages), Correlation
Helen Hint; Helena Lemendik; Christer Johansson; Djuddah A. J. Leijen – Written Communication, 2025
This article presents the development of a specialized data set for analyzing Estonian metadiscourse markers in academic usage, extending Hyland's interpersonal metadiscourse model to a non-Indo-European language. Our goal is to show how metadiscourse, as a feature of a writing tradition, can reveal aspects of writing in languages other than…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Interpersonal Communication, Writing (Composition), Discourse Analysis
Jiayi Lu – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Speakers display considerable variability in language use and representations: they may have different pronunciations of the same word, different intended meanings for the same phrases, and different sets of syntactic constraints in their internalized grammars. Comprehenders adapt to such variability by constantly updating their expectations for…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Phrase Structure, Grammar, Syntax
Pichler, Deborah Chen; Koulidobrova, Elena – Language Learning, 2023
Second language acquisition (SLA) research offers valuable insight on how languages are learned and how they coexist and influence each other. Sign language learners offer unique perspectives on SLA, allowing researchers to test theories that are otherwise constrained by access to only one modality. Current literature on sign language learning…
Descriptors: Language Research, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sign Language
Antonicelli, Giada; Rastelli, Stefano – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2023
Event-related potentials (ERPs) have become widespread in second language acquisition (SLA) research and a growing body of literature has been produced in recent years. We surveyed 61 SLA papers that use ERPs to study L2 sentence processing in healthy late learners. Our main aim was to provide a critical summary of findings from the decade…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests, Language Proficiency, Sentences
Sun, Xin; Nancekivell, Shaylene E.; Shah, Priti; Gelman, Susan A. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2023
How people conceptualize learning is related to real-world educational consequences across many domains of education. Despite its centrality to the educational system, we know little about how the public reasons about language acquisition, and the potential consequences for their thinking about real-world issues (e.g., policy endorsements). The…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Language Acquisition, Individual Differences, Misconceptions
Chen, Zhizi – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2023
"Variability" and "fractality," two key concepts in Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST)--the former concerning changes and variations, and the latter concerning recursiveness and self-similarities--may seem contradictory at first glance. This forum piece attempts to elucidate how the two seemingly contradictory properties can…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Theories, Systems Approach
Benati, Alessandro – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2023
This paper makes a strong connection between the need for innovation in second language pedagogy and the need for language teachers to develop a good understanding of how language develops in our minds/brains. The future for innovative language pedagogy requires that language teachers fully develop the following: (i) a working definition of the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Correlation, Instructional Innovation
Simonchyk, Ala; Darcy, Isabelle – Second Language Research, 2023
The study investigates the relationship between lexical encoding and production in order to establish whether learners are able to produce a difficult contrast in words that they merged in their mental lexicon. Forty American English learners of Russian were tested on their production and lexical encoding of familiar and highly-frequent words with…
Descriptors: Correlation, Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Siqi Ning – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Language can alter our mental conceptions of space, time, and categories. While there is compelling evidence that thought can be shaped by syntactic, morphological, and lexical features of a language, less is known about the impact of phonology on thought. This dissertation uses novel objects (alien cartoon figures) and pseudoword names in three…
Descriptors: Grammar, Semantics, Phonology, Color
Shetye, Shamini – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2023
Second language development can be viewed as a complex and dynamic process in which learners follow non-linear trajectories and develop their language over a period of time (Larsen-Freeman, 2006). Intrinsic to the view of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST), a system is composed of hierarchical, interdependent subcomponents (learner, learner…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Research
Massaro, Abby – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2023
From a complex dynamic systems (CDST) perspective, language is understood as a dynamic system comprised of subsystems that change and develop over time in response to learner-internal and -external factors (Verspoor et al., 2008). Accordingly, language development is seen as a process responsive to the dynamic interaction between the learner and…
Descriptors: Generalization, Interlanguage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kim, Peter – ProQuest LLC, 2022
While language aptitude and motivation are considered to be important contributors to second language (L2) attainment, two major gaps in the past research have been (1) a lack of nonlinear models stemming from a naive and tacit assumption that learning outcomes are linearly related to their predictors, and (2) a lack of unified and integrative…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Aptitude, Learning Motivation
Meng Liu; Ali H. Al-Hoorie; Phil Hiver – Language Testing, 2024
This study is a systematic examination of the open access status of research in two flagship language testing and assessment journals: "Language Testing and Language Assessment Quarterly." Coding and analysing 898 articles, we investigated (a) the prevalence of open access in four aspects--open manuscripts, open materials, open data, and…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Access to Information, Periodicals, Correlation
Perera, Nirukshi – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
This study is located in a lesser-known educational context and investigates aspects of migration, religion and multilingualism. Focusing on the discourse of second-generation adolescent migrants in a Tamil Hindu temple school in urban Australia, I discuss how flexible language practices manifest in this migrant faith setting. I argue that the use…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Religion, Multilingualism