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Natasha Tokowicz; Tessa Warren; Leida Tolentino – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Adult second language learners arrive at the language learning situation with an already formed first language grammar system in place. The study of cross-language similarity across the first and second languages explores how the similarities and differences in the two languages make learning more or less difficult, particularly for adult…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Grammar, Second Language Learning
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Bell, Philippa K. – Applied Linguistics, 2017
Do adults learn the same syntactic second language (L2) form explicitly and implicitly simultaneously during meaning-based exposure, and does the type of learning (explicit and/or implicit) affect subsequent performance. In this study, 81 anglophones completed comprehension tasks providing incidental exposure to a semi-artificial language (English…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), German
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Eneroth, Bo – European Journal of Education, 2008
This article aims to develop a paradigm of lifelong learning situations. The starting point is the EU-Commission policy document where three kinds of learning situations are identified: formal, non-formal and informal. The article tries to deepen this categorisation by searching for the underlying ontological and epistemological dimensions. The…
Descriptors: Models, Lifelong Learning, Educational Philosophy, Nonformal Education
O'Hara, Martin; And Others – Adult Education, 1975
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Classification, Creativity Research, Educational Theories
Worden, Patricia E.; Mandler, George – 1976
Mandler (1969) found that one-third of adult subjects were seriators and two-thirds were categorizers in a task where either strategy could be employed. Study 1 was a replication of his procedure with children from Grades 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9. While there was weak evidence that some older subjects chose the categorial strategy, there was little…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes