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Le Pichon Vorstman, Emmanuelle; De Swart, Henriette; Ceginskas, Viktorija; Van Den Bergh, Huub – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2009
What is the influence of a language learning experience (LLE) in a school context on the metacognitive development of children? To answer that question, we presented 54 multilingual preschoolers with two movie clips and examined their reactions to an exolingual situation of communication. These preschoolers were aged four and a half to six and a…
Descriptors: Cues, Multilingualism, Metacognition, Learning Experience
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Elston-Guttler, Kerrie E.; Gunter, Thomas C. – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2009
We investigate how L1 phonology and semantics affect processing of interlingual homographs by manipulating language context before, and auditory input during, a visual experiment in the L2. Three experiments contained German-English homograph primes ("gift" = German "poison") in English sentences and was performed by German (L1) learners of…
Descriptors: Sentences, Phonology, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition