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Language Learners' Characteristics, Target Language Use, and Linguistic Development in a Domestic Immersion Context
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Isabelli-García, Christina; Lacorte, Manel – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
Second language acquisition research on the immersion context has focused primarily on study abroad, revealing the extent to which that context promotes learners' developing linguistic and intercultural competence. However, little research has examined linguistic development in intensive, domestic immersion contexts. This study investigated the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Surveys, Questionnaires, Accuracy
Does the Advanced Proficiency Evaluated in Oral-Like Written Text Support Syntactic Parsing in a Written Academic Text among L2 Japanese Learners?
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Kitajima, Ryu – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
Corpus linguistics identifies the qualitative difference in the characteristics of spoken discourse vs. written academic discourse. Whereas spoken discourse makes greater use of finite dependent clauses functioning as constituents in other clauses, written academic discourse incorporates noun phrase constituents and complex phrases. This claim can…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Protocol Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Second Language Learning
The Role of Structural Position in L2 Phonological Acquisition: Evidence from English Learners of Spanish as L2
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Vokic, Gabriela – Foreign Language Annals, 2008
In this pilot study, the speech of 12 adult native speakers of English with intermediate to intermediate-high proficiency in Spanish as a second language (L2) was analyzed to determine whether L2 learners rely on distributional information in the process of L2 speech learning and if so, if similar or dissimilar distributional patterns of sounds…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Native Speakers
Linguists and Foreign Language Teachers
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Stein, Jack M. – Foreign Language Annals, 1975
This article briefly examines structural and transformational theories and their associations with other theories, particularly learning psychology. The implications of each position for FL teaching are examined, and it is suggested that teachers enrich structurally based audiolingual techniques with experimental infusions from the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Audiolingual Methods, Generative Grammar, Language Instruction
Fads and Fashions in Foreign Language Teaching.
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Ney, James W. – Foreign Language Annals, 1979
Discusses the structuralist and the cognitivist theories of language learning, and emphasizes the importance of practice in second language learning. (AM)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Linguistic Theory
The Psychology of Language and Contrastive Linguistics: the Research and the Debate.
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Oller, John W., Jr. – Foreign Language Annals, 1979
Examines the loss in popularity of contrastive linguistics as a method for explaining second language learning systems, and calls for a turn to pragmatics in language teaching. (AM)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Error Analysis (Language), Interference (Language)
Le passe simple sans peine (The "Passe Simple" without Pain).
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Benedict, Marjorie A. – Foreign Language Annals, 1980
All the irregularities of all common French verbs are reduced to five categories in the "passe simple." This system facilitates learning the tense without memorizing each irregular verb independently. (PMJ)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Language Patterns, Learning Processes