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Direct linkBarter-Storm, Brandy; Wik, Tamara – TESOL Journal, 2020
Graphic novels are a form of authentic text that have started to gain widespread acceptance in the English language arts field and have been shown to increase students' motivation to read and engage deeply with texts. By integrating text with pictures, graphic novels have the advantage of requiring a lighter cognitive load than traditional…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Civil Rights, Cartoons, Novels
Sadri Mirdamadi, Farhad; De Jong, Nivja H. – Second Language Research, 2015
This study investigates how syntactic complexity affects speaking performance in first (L1) and second language (L2) in terms of speaking fluency. Participants (30 Dutch native speakers with an average to advanced level of English) performed two speaking experiments, one in Dutch (L1) and one in English (L2). Syntactic complexity was…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Language Fluency, Native Language
Casey, Shannon; Emmorey, Karen; Larrabee, Heather – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
Given that the linguistic articulators for sign language are also used to produce co-speech gesture, we examined whether one year of academic instruction in American Sign Language (ASL) impacts the rate and nature of gestures produced when speaking English. A survey study revealed that 75% of ASL learners (N = 95), but only 14% of Romance language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, American Sign Language, Cartoons, Second Language Learning
