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David Singleton; Justyna Lesniewska – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
This article delves into the ongoing debate surrounding the role of age in second language acquisition, examining developments over the past three decades and highlighting contentious issues. We argue that the commonly held belief in age's pivotal role is frequently contradicted by empirical evidence. Additionally, we examine the agerelated debate…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Age Differences, Brain, Lifelong Learning
Tomáš Kos – TESL-EJ, 2024
Peer collaboration benefits second language (L2) learning and is a cornerstone of effective classroom instruction. It is, therefore, essential for teachers to consider how tasks work to promote peer collaboration and thus maximize learning. These considerations concern the task type, a task's inherent characteristics, and possible ways of task…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Cooperative Learning, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition
Marcella dos Santos Abreu; Cláudia Hilsdorf Rocha – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2024
This article revisits the "jongo" activity 'Pisei na Pedra' (2014) integrated into the "Nossa Casinha" guide (Martins & Sala, 2022) for teaching Portuguese to migrant children. "Jongo" is seen as an Afro-Brazilian form of expression, encompassing chants, drumming, collective dance, and spirituality (Rufino, 2014,…
Descriptors: Portuguese, Transformative Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Matilda Ståhl; Katri Hansell; Sandra Bäck; Mattias Wingren – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2025
Playing video games engages children and youth and offers a potential for learning in general and situated language learning in particular. The aim of this paper is to explore the situated conditions and affordances for facilitating in-game interaction, as well as to discuss the language learning potential and educational implications of these…
Descriptors: Video Games, Cooperative Learning, Interaction, Children
Benjamin D. Zinszer; Joelle Hannon; Anqi Hu; Aya Élise Kouadio; Hermann Akpé; Fabrice Tanoh; Madeleine Wang; Zhenghan Qi; Kaja Jasinska – Developmental Science, 2024
Studies of non-linguistic statistical learning (SL) have often linked performance in SL tasks with differences in language outcomes. Most of these studies have focused on Western and high-income educational contexts, but children worldwide learn in radically different educational systems and communities, and often in a second language. In the west…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Grade 5
Kaiying Lin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The field of Linguistics has long been interested in the verb meanings of intransitive verbs and their argument structure, specifically the breakdown of intransitive verbs into unaccusative and unergative verb types. Despite extensive research, a universally applicable explanation for this breakdown remains elusive due in part to the variability…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Semantics
Huiwen Shi; Lok Ming Eric Cheung – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2024
Purpose: While most language departments of the university offer service-learning (SL) subjects based on language teaching, such as "Teaching Chinese as a Second Language in Local Schools" and "Serving the Community through Teaching English," this paper aims to argue that teaching students to teach language(s) is yet to be the…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Service Learning, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Elspeth McInnes; Victoria Whitington; Bec Neill; Amy Farndale – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This research examined the conditions under which codesigned approaches to educator professional learning in multilingual, birth to five settings were accessible and supportive of children's social and emotional development across diverse types of Australian early childhood services. The research sites, in the suburbs of a capital city, comprised…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Bilingual Students, Children
Westergaard, Marit – Second Language Research, 2021
In this article, I argue that first language (L1), second language (L2) and third language (L3) acquisition are fundamentally the same process, based on learning by parsing. Both child and adult learners are sensitive to fine linguistic distinctions, and language development takes place in small steps. While the bulk of the article focuses on…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Native Language
Chondrogianni, Vicky – Journal of Child Language, 2023
Paradis' (2023) keynote article is a timely documentation of the ongoing shift in focus within childhood bilingualism research from investigating the factors that modulate majority or second language (ML/L2) attainment (Chondrogianni & Marinis, 2011) to understanding the sources of variation that lead to minority heritage language (HL)…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Children, Learning Processes, Language Skills
Carmen Muñoz, Editor; Imma Miralpeix, Editor – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2024
This volume presents research on second language learning through audiovisual input, conducted within the SUBTiLL (Subtitles in Language Learning) project at the University of Barcelona. It includes studies exploring various language dimensions and skills, such as vocabulary, pronunciation, and reading, while also considering learner factors, such…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Linguistic Input
Ily Hollebeke; Esli Struys; Orhan Agirdag – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Multilingual families face decisions about the linguistic upbringing of their children. These decisions shape their family language policy (FLP) which potentially impacts the children and their family. Departing from this hypothesis we conducted a systematic literature review applying the PRISMA guidelines, screening three databases, using search…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Family Relationship, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
Ya-Wen Cheng; Yuping Wang; Yu-Jie Cheng; Nian-Shing Chen – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Existing research has established immense importance in contextual learning for second language development. However, to provide real-life context in the learning of a foreign language is challenging. To help create such a learning environment, our previous research developed an innovative system called the R&T System, utilizing robots (R) and…
Descriptors: Robotics, Internet, Game Based Learning, Children
Ensmann, Suzanne – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2021
Imagine producing curricula to teach a new language to an audience in a different country that has never had access to computers or the Internet. How will instructional designers and teachers communicate when worlds are so vastly different? Before reading, writing, or speaking, images and movement facilitate communication. This article describes a…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Game Based Learning, Access to Computers, Internet
L. Quentin Dixon; Haemin Kim; Amirpooya Dayani; Weiqi Guo; Li-Jen Kuo; Zohreh Eslami; Zhuo Chen – Literacy, 2025
Immigrant families bring myriad strengths through their home literacy practices, which contribute to their children's biliteracy growth. This systematic review critically analysed 28 recent studies on the relationship between home literacy practices and biliteracy development of immigrant bilingual children. Against a backdrop of host societies…
Descriptors: Native Language, Literacy, Bilingualism, Bilingual Education