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Zoe Gavriilidou; Lydia Mitits; Karen Chanagkian – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
The purpose of this corpus-based study is a bottom-up investigation of strategic devices used by heritage language speakers (HLSs) during narration and conversation. It offers a critical review of compensation/communication strategy definitions and classifications, and presents the results of an investigation into strategies employed by an…
Descriptors: Native Language, Narration, Interpersonal Communication, Greek
Aiping Zhao; Xuening Zhang; Ying Guo; Megan Schneider Dinnesen; Shuyan Sun; Yunqing Xu – Journal of Research in Reading, 2025
Background: Second language (L2) reading is a complex process in which two languages constantly interact. L1 reading and L2 proficiency are two well-acknowledged factors contributing to L2 reading comprehension. Other factors, such as strategy use and anxiety, might also predict L2 reading comprehension, but their roles have not been examined in…
Descriptors: High School Students, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Reading Skills
Scott Aubrey; Andrew Philpott – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This study examined the impact of collaborative pre-task strategic planning followed by rehearsal on the quantity and novelty of content used in task performances when strategic planning is performed in different language conditions in an online classroom. Forty Japanese university students of English as a foreign language (EFL) from two intact…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Language Usage, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Hayakawa, Sayuri; Bartolotti, James; Marian, Viorica – Applied Linguistics, 2021
According to the US Department of State, a native English speaker can learn Spanish in about 600 h, but would take four times as long to learn Japanese. While it may be intuitive that similarity between a foreign language and a native tongue can influence the ease of acquisition, what is less obvious are the specific cognitive and emotional…
Descriptors: Native Language, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies
de Vries, Heleen; Meyer, Caitlin; Peeters-Podgaevskaja, Alla – First Language, 2021
This study reports the results of a Give-X task investigating the comprehension of ordinal and cardinal numbers in monolingual Russian-speaking children. Data collected from 36 children between the ages of 4;06 and 5;10 provided evidence that Russian learners follow the well-attested pattern for cardinal acquisition, but that children use a…
Descriptors: Russian, Learning Strategies, Language Acquisition, Monolingualism
Nghi Tin Tran; Thang Tat Nguyen; Hai Hong Pham – rEFLections, 2024
The current study aimed to gain insight into the nuanced challenges that Vietnamese learners encountered due to the interference of their native linguistic structures and norms. This qualitative study explored the experiences of Vietnamese learners in acquiring English, focusing on the influence of negative L1 transfer. This study focused on the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Transfer of Training, Vietnamese, English (Second Language)
Kaya, Jean – English in Education, 2023
Awareness of vocabulary learning strategies has been identified as crucial in supporting learners' vocabulary development. Using interview data from 21 adolescent first language speakers of English identified as gifted students in the U.S. education context, I analysed the vocabulary learning strategies that they used to learn, remember, and make…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Learning Strategies, English Instruction, Native Language
Christa Roux Sparreskog – Language and Education, 2024
26% of the students in Swedish compulsory school have an immigrant background. To support the simultaneous development of their language proficiency as well as their academic skills and knowledge, several measures may be implemented by schools. This study focuses on one of those measures, namely multilingual study guidance, and illustrates the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Immigrants
Wandong Xu; Xinhua Zhu – Metacognition and Learning, 2024
Despite the widely recognized importance of metacognition in language learning, relatively few empirical studies have investigated the role of metacognitive strategies with a cross-linguistic perspective. Drawing on the mixed-method design combining questionnaire and interview data, this study systematically investigated the effects, the transfer…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Native Language, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Mohammad R. Alnufaie; Ibrahim H. Alzahrani – TESL-EJ, 2024
This study attempts to replicate Pawlak's (2018) Grammar Learning Strategy Inventory (GLSI). It explores the use of GLSI by Saudi students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in their college preparation year. The re-emergence of GLSI after a long period of neglect is a significant development in Language Learning Strategies. Consequently, due…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Judit Kormos; Kathrin Eberharter; Elisa Guggenbichler; Simone Baumgartinger; Viktoria Ebner; Benjamin Kremmel – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
Authentic listening increasingly involves being able to pause or replay recordings as needed. In this study, we investigated differences in the reported use of listening strategies and listening anxiety between single-play and self-paced test administration. We also analyzed the interrelationships among first language (L1) literacy skills, second…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Tests, Listening Comprehension Tests, Literacy
Shi, Lijuan; Rolstad, Kellie – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
Guided by translanguaging pedagogy, this study examines how monolingual English teachers in a Pre-K school in China navigate between English and Chinese to construct a translanguaging classroom. Findings based on classroom observations and interviews reveal that, despite being constrained by their monolingualism, the English teachers enacted…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Monolingualism, Teacher Characteristics, Code Switching (Language)
Göçen, Gökçen – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
Learning a foreign language includes learning vocabulary together with grammar rules and using language skills by means of them. Words are presented to learners through teachers and coursebooks in educational processes. Yet, it is not possible to teach all the words through lessons, so learners are expected to become independent vocabulary…
Descriptors: Turkish, Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies, Vocabulary Development
Kim, Hyoju – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The present study investigates the time course of acoustic cue integration in the processing of the Korean three-way laryngeal stop contrast by native Korean listeners and English second language (L2) learners of Korean. As such, this study seeks to understand how native listeners and L2 learners weight and integrate fine-grained acoustic…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Cues, Second Language Learning, Individual Differences
Giovanna Arenare; Encarnación Carrasco Perea; Carmen López Ferrero – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This article focuses on the effects of a 21-hour Romance Intercomprehension (RIC) module on the plurilingual competence in Romance languages of no prior knowledge and EFL reading comprehension skills of a group of Italian schoolchildren aged 10-11. Data were collected pre- and post-training through a simple language identification and…
Descriptors: Romance Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction