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C. H. Padmanabha; Flavia P. D'Souza – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2023
In Krashen's theory of second-language acquisition he claims that there is distinction between language acquisition and language learning, a distinction which other second-language acquisition researchers have called "perhaps the most important conceptualization" in the field and which has made possible the most productive models of SLA.…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, Learning Processes, Language Research
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Chanikarn Thatchatham; Nattama Pongpairoj – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
This study investigated how input frequency (i.e., type frequency and token frequency) and proficiency levels enhanced the perception of English nominal suffixes by first language (L1) Thai learners. Based on the Usage-based Account (Tomasello, 2003), it was hypothesized that input frequency, i.e., token frequency (frequency of derived forms…
Descriptors: Thai, Native Language, Language Proficiency, Linguistic Input
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Pichler, Deborah Chen; Koulidobrova, Elena – Language Learning, 2023
Second language acquisition (SLA) research offers valuable insight on how languages are learned and how they coexist and influence each other. Sign language learners offer unique perspectives on SLA, allowing researchers to test theories that are otherwise constrained by access to only one modality. Current literature on sign language learning…
Descriptors: Language Research, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sign Language
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Fernández Cuenca, Sara; Jegerski, Jill – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
The present study investigated the second language processing of grammatical mood in Spanish. Eye-movement data from a group of advanced proficiency second language users revealed nativelike processing with irregular verb stimuli but not with regular verb stimuli. A comparison group of native speakers showed the expected effect with both types of…
Descriptors: Verbs, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Maria de Lourdes Marisol Irwig – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this comparative study is to determine whether the linguistic input approach based on Krashen's (1989) comprehensible input (CI) and supported by Kolb's (2015) experiential learning (ELT) and Siemens' (2005) connectivism theory (CT) to improve eighth graders' Spanish speaking and writing linguistic proficiencies. Previous research…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
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Chatchanok Chanyeam; Nuntana Wongthai – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
The linguistic relativity hypothesis has focused on the influence of grammar in language on speakers' cognition. Previous studies show that speakers of languages with grammatical number (e.g., English) are more aware of the number of objects. Additionally, recent studies reveal that bilinguals who speak languages with different grammatical…
Descriptors: Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Schemata (Cognition), Bilingualism
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Rodríguez-Cuadrado, Sara; Ojedo, Fernando; Vicente-Conesa, Francisco; Romero-Rivas, Carlos; Sampedro, Miguel Ángel Carlos; Santiago, Julio – Second Language Research, 2023
Several studies have explored the use of iconic gestures to improve the learning of foreign vocabulary. In this quest, words for abstract concepts have been largely neglected, under the assumption that abstract concepts have poor or non-existent sensory-motor representations. Yet, the Conceptual Metaphor Theory suggests that they are grounded on…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sign Language, Foreign Countries
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Hamid Allami; Boshra Najari; Zia Tajeddin – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2025
This study explores the impact of sociocultural theory-based instruction on enhancing L2 learners' writing skills including grammatical accuracy, coherence, cohesion, task response, and lexical resources for the IELTS. To this end, a cohort of 40 participants, spanning intermediate and advanced proficiency levels, was divided into experimental and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Writing Skills
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Lilong Xu; Boping Yuan – Second Language Research, 2024
This study investigates whether there are different first-language-second-language (L1-L2) dependency resolutions by focusing on less-studied crosslinguistic variances in L2 acquisition of Chinese, a null-subject language, by speakers of English, a non-null-subject language. The overt subject pronoun of a Chinese main clause has free orientation…
Descriptors: Cues, Chinese, Phrase Structure, English
Dionysia Saratsli – ProQuest LLC, 2022
It is often assumed that cross-linguistically more prevalent distinctions are easier to learn potentially due to their conceptual naturalness. Prior work supports this hypothesis in phonology, morphology and syntax but has not addressed semantics. This work aims to unravel the potential factors that contribute to the learnability and the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Grammar, English, Artificial Languages
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Christiansen, Thomas Wulstan – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2022
In this paper, we will examine the problematic concept of the native speaker, which is central to much linguistic theory, to studies of language acquisition, and to language teaching and assessment. It is a notion which can have ramifications when it comes to the recruitment of language teachers in schools and in university language centres.…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Ana Espírito Santo; Nélia Alexandre; Sílvia Perpiñán – Second Language Research, 2024
This article reports on an experimental study on the acquisition of prepositional relative clauses in second language European Portuguese by Chinese native speakers. It focuses on the role of resumption, mandatory in prepositional relative clauses in Chinese (the native language of the learners) and non-conventional in European Portuguese (the…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mohamad Javad Baghiat Esfahani; Saeed Ketabi – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study attempts to evaluate the effect of the corpus-based inductive teaching approach with multiple academic corpora (PICA, CAEC and Oxford Corpus of Academic English) and conventional deductive teaching approach (i.e., multiple-choice items, filling the gap, matching and underlining) on learning academic collocations by Iranian…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Advanced Students, English (Second Language)
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Guoyuhui Huang; Khe Foon Hew – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Over the past two decades, the Involvement Load Hypothesis (ILH) has become a popular buzzword in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Although applications of the ILH can improve students' learning of productive vocabulary, this effect appears to be transitory. Students' learning of productive vocabulary often fades over time, as shown…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Hitoshi Nishizawa – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Many studies evidence the flexibility of speech perception in the first language (L1), which allows rapid adaptation to unfamiliar foreign accents. Two influential studies by Bradlow and Bent (2008) and a follow-up study by Baese-Berk et al. (2013) found that increased variability as a function of the number of talkers and accents facilitated the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Auditory Perception, Pronunciation
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