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Brian Strong; Paul Leeming – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
In recent years, there has been considerable interest in how to maximize learners' retention of multiword expressions. One technique that has been shown to be highly effective is the use of exercises such as those found in mainstream English as a second language textbooks. In the present study, we investigated how the execution of a gap-fill…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Phrase Structure, Verbs
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Szczesniak, Konrad; Sitter, Hanna – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
We propose a previously unexamined factor instrumental in learning vocabulary accounting for the differences between learning a native and a foreign language: the development of critical thinking in adolescence. We hypothesize that the difficulties experienced in foreign vocabulary development result from the learner's readiness to question new…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Memory
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Hamrick, Phillip – Language Learning, 2014
Humans are remarkably sensitive to the statistical structure of language. However, different mechanisms have been proposed to account for such statistical sensitivities. The present study compared adult learning of syntax and the ability of two models of statistical learning to simulate human performance: Simple Recurrent Networks, which learn by…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Role, Syntax, Computational Linguistics
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Shin, Jeong-Ah; Christianson, Kiel – Language Learning, 2012
Structural priming (or syntactic priming) is a speaker's tendency to reuse the same structural pattern as one that was previously encountered (Bock, 1986). This study investigated (a) whether the implicit learning processes involved in long-lag structural priming lead to differential second language (L2) improvement in producing two structural…
Descriptors: Priming, Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Memory