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The Development of L2 Oral Language Skills in Two L1 Groups: A 7-Year Study
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Derwing, Tracey M.; Munro, Murray J. – Language Learning, 2013
Researching the longitudinal development of second language (L2) learners is essential to understanding influences on their success. This 7-year study of oral skills in adult immigrant learners of English as a second language evaluated comprehensibility, fluency, and accentedness in first-language (L1) Mandarin and Slavic language speakers. The…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Native Language, English (Second Language)
Self-Qualification in L2 Japanese: An Interface of Pragmatic, Grammatical, and Discourse Competences
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Geyer, Naomi – Language Learning, 2007
In Japanese, self-qualification, or a qualifying segment of talk that reduces the force of the speaker's own utterances, is frequently introduced with contrastive markers, such as "demo," "kedo," and "ga." This study explores the relationship between the grammatical and pragmatic competence of Japanese L2 learners by examining their use of such…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Grammar, Oral Language, Japanese
Long-Term Crosslinguistic Transfer of Skills from L1 to L2
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Sparks, Richard; Patton, Jon; Ganschow, Leonore; Humbach, Nancy – Language Learning, 2009
This study investigated the relationship of first language (L1) skills in elementary school and second language (L2) learning in high school. Students classified as high-, average-, and low-proficiency L2 learners were compared on L1 achievement measures of reading, spelling, vocabulary, phonological awareness, and listening comprehension…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Spelling, Phonological Awareness, Decoding (Reading)
Language Anxiety: Differentiating Writing and Speaking Components.
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Cheng, Yuh-show; Horwitz, Elaine K.; Schallert, Diane L. – Language Learning, 1999
Investigated the links between second-language classroom anxiety and second-language writing anxiety, as well a their associations with second-language speaking and writing achievement. Findings suggest that second-language classroom anxiety is a more general type of anxiety about learning a second language with a strong speaking-anxiety element,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Communication Apprehension, Language Proficiency, Language Skills
Reading to Young Children in Educational Settings: A Meta-Analysis of Recent Research.
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Blok, Henk – Language Learning, 1999
Reviews 10 studies, comprising 11 samples, of the effects of reading to young children in schools. Ages of the children varied between 31 and 90 months, and dependent variables were classified in two domains: oral language and reading skills. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Interaction, Language Skills, Meta Analysis, Oral Language
Encouraging Learners' Conversational Participation: The Effect of Content Knowledge.
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Zuengler, Jane – Language Learning, 1993
The influence on interlocutors' relative content knowledge on conversational participation in interactions between native speakers (NSs) and nonnative speakers (NNSs) with limited oral skills is investigated. Results indicate that both NSs and NNSs appeared conversationally active, but there were different patterns of participation that could to…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Higher Education
The Ontogeny Model: Evidence from L2 Acquisition of Spanish.
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Major, Roy C. – Language Learning, 1986
Testing of a second-language phonological acquisition model with four beginning learners of Spanish supported the claim that transfer processes decrease over time while developmental processes increase and then decrease. Analysis also revealed a hierarchical organization of processes in second-language acquisition and an interaction of the native…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), College Students, Distinctive Features (Language), Higher Education