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Bañón, José Alemán; Miller, David; Rothman, Jason – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
We used event-related potentials to investigate how markedness impacts person agreement in English-speaking learners of L2-Spanish. Markedness was examined by probing agreement with both first-person (marked) and third-person (unmarked) subjects. Agreement was manipulated by crossing first-person subjects with third-person verbs and vice versa.…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Spanish
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Xie, Qin; Lei, Yuqi – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
This research conducted diagnostic assessment of problems in first-year undergraduates' English academic papers and tracked potential sources of the problems to the writing process and strategy use. Data collected include 339 term papers and interviews with 17 students. The samples were manually error tagged and marked against a detailed…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Metacognition
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Bhat, Anjana N.; Srinivasan, Sudha M.; Woxholdt, Colleen; Shield, Aaron – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2018
Children with autism spectrum disorder present with a variety of social communication deficits such as atypicalities in social gaze and verbal and non-verbal communication delays as well as perceptuo-motor deficits like motor incoordination and dyspraxia. In this study, we had the unique opportunity to study praxis performance in deaf children…
Descriptors: Deafness, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Severity (of Disability)
Abdellah, Antar Solhy – Online Submission, 2007
Egyptian English majors in the faculty of Education, South Valley University tend to mistranslate the plural inanimate Arabic pronoun with the singular inanimate English pronoun. A diagnostic test was designed to analyze this error. Results showed that a large number of students (first year and fourth year students) make this error, that the error…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Form Classes (Languages), Semitic Languages, English (Second Language)