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Implicit Learning of Latin Stress Regularities
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Graham, Calbert R.; Williams, John N. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
This study examines whether Japanese native (L1) listeners can implicitly learn stress pattern regularities, not present in their L1, after a brief auditory exposure. In the exposure phase, the participants listened to and repeated words bearing stress patterned after Latin, but with a highly restricted consonant inventory. They performed a…
Descriptors: Latin, Task Analysis, Auditory Perception, Listening
Explicit Instruction, Bilingualism, and the Older Adult Learner
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Cox, Jessica G. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
Little is known about older adult language learners and effects of aging on L2 learning. This study investigated learning in older age through interactions of learner-internal and -external variables; specifically, late-learned L2 (bilingualism) and provision of grammar explanation (explicit instruction, EI). Forty-three older adults (age 60+) who…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Bilingualism
Exploring the Interface: Explicit Focus-on-Form Instruction and Learned Attentional Biases in L2 Latin
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Cintrón-Valentín, Myrna; Ellis, Nick C. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2015
Eye-tracking was used to investigate the attentional processes whereby different types of focus on form (FonF) instruction assist learners in overcoming learned attention and blocking effects in their online processing of second language input. English native speakers viewed Latin utterances combining lexical and morphological cues to temporality…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Attention, Second Language Learning, Latin
The Bounds of Adult Language Acquisition: Blocking and Learned Attention
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Ellis, Nick C.; Sagarra, Nuria – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
The current study investigates the limited attainment of adult language acquisition in terms of an associative learning phenomenon whereby earlier learned cues attentionally block those that are experienced later. Short- and long-term blocking are demonstrated in experimental investigations of learned attention in the acquisition of temporal…
Descriptors: Cues, Form Classes (Languages), Associative Learning, Early Experience
Learners' Hypotheses for the Acquisition of Lexis.
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Giacobbe, Jorge; Cammarota, Marie-Ange – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
The relationship between the source language (Spanish) and the target language (French) in the construction of lexis during target language acquisition was examined in two case studies, leading to the hypothesis that there are both systematic and nonsystematic approaches to the construction of lexis used by Hispanophones learning French.…
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Code Switching (Language), Cognitive Processes
Asymmetric Communication in Bilingual Exchanges.
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de Heredia, Christine – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
Analyzes the characteristics of exolingual communication, illustrated by case studies of dialogues between French and Latin American Spanish speakers. Hypotheses about exolingual communication are presented, specifically on the "guidance" offered by native speakers and the role of metalinguistic activities. (Author/CB).
Descriptors: Adults, Code Switching (Language), Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages)