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Snape, Neal; Kupisch, Tanja – Second Language Research, 2010
An area of considerable interest in second language (L2) acquisition is the difficulties learners face with the acquisition of articles. This article examines the role of prosody in the acquisition of articles by an endstate L2 English speaker focusing on the free morphemes "the" and "a". In order to analyse the articles produced by a Turkish…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Nouns, Morphemes, Second Language Learning
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Wode, Henning – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1978
Discusses problems and issues in naturalistic (non-school) acquisition of the phonology of a second language (L2). The data come from a longitudinal study of four German-speaking siblings learning English as a second language within an English-speaking community without classroom instruction. (KM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Children, English (Second Language)
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Scott, Charles T. – The Modern Language Journal, 1966
Linguistic features of the reading process are described and used as a basis for some conclusions about the teaching of reading in a foreign language. For purposes of illustration, this discussion centers around the teaching of English reading skills to speakers of Japanese. The peculiarities of reading as a system of communication are outlined.…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Communication (Thought Transfer), English (Second Language), Language Instruction