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Chary-Sy Tanya Copeland – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Second language acquisition has been observed to be variable in its outcome such that, unlike native speakers, all second language learners do not achieve total success. Second language acquisition is made of macro and micro processes. External and internal (e.g., age, individual differences) factors are assumed to affect language processing in…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sundari, Hanna; Febriyanti, Rina Husnaini – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2020
Development of child language is tremendously complex, remarkable and wondrous. In a second language acquisition context, a child can acquire his second language in either acquiring both languages at the same time or learning the second language after mastering the first one. This present research is concerned to describe the syntactical…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Morphemes
Akkaya Önal, Meriç; Serpil, Revan – Online Submission, 2020
How languages are acquired and what stages learners go through has been the focus in language teaching area, and this cross-sectional study investigated the use of English adverbs by elementary, pre-intermediate and intermediate level Turkish EFL students at Anadolu University School of Foreign Languages by analyzing it from acquisitional…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Spinner, Patti; Jung, Sehoon – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
The purpose of this study was to determine whether processability theory (PT; Pienemann, 1998, 2005) accounts for the emergence of grammatical forms and structures in comprehension. Sixty-one learners of English participated in oral interviews that elicited a variety of structures relevant to PT. Learners were divided into two groups: those who…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kahrizsangi, Abbas Ali Salehi; Haddadi, Mohammad Hossein – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
Acquisition and improvement of literary translation competence is an important undertaking in teaching literary translation with the aim to enable the student to translate into the target language the content, expressive power, language style, and an equal function of the literary text. This essay pursues the aim of helping to create and improve…
Descriptors: Literature, Translation, Creoles, Teaching Methods
Chepyshko, Roman – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The current project investigates developmental aspects of acquiring locative verb constructions in English as a second language. Locative verbs, such as "to pour," "to spill," "to spray," and "to sprinkle," constitute a prototypical case of an overgeneralization problem in language learning: Whereas some of…
Descriptors: Verbs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
O'Grady, William; Lee, On-Soon; Lee, Jin-Hwa – Heritage Language Journal, 2011
A promising source of insights into heritage language learning comes from the broader study of the role of input in language acquisition. We concentrate here on the possibility that qualitative differences in the proficiency of heritage and monolingual language learners can be traced to a qualitative difference in the input available to each…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Monolingualism, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning
Cieslicka, Anna B. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2011
Most current idiom processing models acknowledge, after Gernsbacher and Robertson (1999) that deriving an idiomatic meaning entails suppression of contextually inappropriate, literal meanings of idiom constituent words. While embedding idioms in the rich disambiguating context can promote earlier suppression of incompatible literal meanings,…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Figurative Language, Polish, Native Language
Song, Hyang Suk; Schwartz, Bonnie D. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2009
The fundamental difference hypothesis (FDH; Bley-Vroman, 1989, 1990) contends that the nature of language in natives is fundamentally different from the nature of language in adult nonnatives. This study tests the FDH in two ways: (a) via second language (L2) poverty-of-the-stimulus (POS) problems (e.g., Schwartz & Sprouse, 2000) and (b) via a…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Word Order, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory

Akhmanova, Olga – Modern Language Journal, 1971
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Grammar, Language Instruction, Language Proficiency

Brogan, Patrick; And Others – 1969
Three papers from this issue of the Working Papers are provided here. "The Nesting Constraint in Child Language," by Patrick Alan Brogan, discusses a child's ability to perform complex, internally embedded sentences. It is hypothesized that difficulty stems from a child's limited short-term memory. "A Framework for Studying Kin Term…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Proficiency
Halamandaris, Pandelis G. – 1968
On the basis of the grammatical theory developed by Noam Chomsky, it is reasonable to presume that the different parts of a sentence may not all be understood with equal facility and speed. One purpose of this study was to determine whether some of the grammatical relations within a sentence were understood more readily than others. Sentences of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Deep Structure, Difficulty Level
Valian, Virginia – 1989
A study is reported that investigated American children's use of subjects in early speech and compared this cross-sectional data to longitudinal data on Italian children's production of subjects. Twenty-one American children aged 1.10 to 2.8 years were recorded in mother-child interactions and grouped by mean length of utterance (MLU) produced.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Italian
Kubota, Mikio – Institute for Research in Language Teaching Bulletin, 1993
This study investigated the accuracy order of English relative clauses in the usage of 199 Japanese high school students of English as a foreign language (EFL). Specifically, it looked at: (1) whether the Accessibility Hierarchy conform to the accuracy order by Japanese senior high school students of EFL; and (2) how frequently this population…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Grammar
Clark, Eve V., Ed.; And Others – 1989
Papers in this volume include the following: "The Structural Sources of Verb Meaning" (Lila R. Gleitman); "Acquisition of Noun Incorporation in Inuktitut" (Shanley Allen, Martha Crago); "Why Do Children Omit Subjects?" (Paul Bloom); "Acquiring Language in a Creole Setting: Theoretical and Methodological…
Descriptors: Adverbs, American Sign Language, Child Language, Chinese
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