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Janne Bondi Johannessen; Björn Lundquist; Yulia Rodina; Eirik Tengesdal; Nina Hagen Kaldhol; Emel Türker; Valantis Fyndanis – Second Language Research, 2025
The present study examines grammatical gender knowledge in offline production (gender marking on indefinite articles) and online gender processing (visual world paradigm) in adult second language (L2) learners of Norwegian with three different first languages (L1s): Greek, Russian, and Turkish. In particular, it investigates the role of the…
Descriptors: Grammar, Adult Learning, Second Language Learning, Norwegian
Ke, Sihui; Koda, Keiko – Applied Linguistics, 2019
This study examined whether vocabulary knowledge is sufficient for second language (L2) word-meaning inferencing. Specifically, it investigated the role of the learner's sensitivity to a word's morphological structure (referred to 'morphological awareness' or 'MA' hereafter) as additional support that enhances multi-character word-meaning…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Morphology (Languages), Predictor Variables, Second Language Learning
Doughty, Catherine J. – Language Learning, 2019
After discussing key issues in the aptitude literature and presenting an updated, multicomponential model of cognitive language aptitude, we consider two analyses from a longitudinal investigation using aptitude to predict success in language learning. Aptitude is conceptualized as a special talent for learning languages and a ceiling on success.…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Learning Motivation, Language Skills, Cognitive Ability
Salsbury, Tom; Crossley, Scott A.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Second Language Research, 2011
This study uses word information scores from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Psycholinguistic Database to analyse word development in the spontaneous speech data of six adult learners of English as a second language (L2) in a one-year longitudinal study. In contrast to broad measures of lexical development, such as word frequency and lexical…
Descriptors: Medical Research, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Learning, Familiarity
Ziliak, Zoe Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study investigates adults' ability to change their phonetic systems in perception and production, specifically upon exposure to a new dialect in adulthood. It further addresses the relative importance of binary biological sex and socially constructed gender in predicting an individual's sociolinguistic variation. Perception and production…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Dialects, Auditory Perception, Phonetics
Grafals, Zoraida – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was twofold. First, this study was conducted to compare English communicative competency achievement between two different models of instruction. Adult English language learners (AELLs) participated in either the communicative task-based (CTB) or in a more traditional (MT) language instructional approach. The goal of the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Control Groups
Binder, Katherine S.; Snyder, Melissa A.; Ardoin, Scott P.; Morris, Robin K. – Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 2011
This study examined the reliability and validity of administering Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) to adult basic education (ABE) students. Ninety ABE participants were administered DIBELS measures, the Woodcock-Johnson III Broad Reading (WJ III BR) measures, and four orthographic ability tests. Since ABE students are a…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Kempe, Vera; Brooks, Patricia J. – Language Learning, 2008
This study explored learning and generalization of parts of the Russian case-marking paradigm, an inflecting-fusional system in which affixes simultaneously mark several grammatical features (case, gender, number, animacy). In Experiment 1, adult English speakers (N = 43) were exposed to nouns with transparent gender marking in the nominative case…
Descriptors: Nouns, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Adult Learning
Hummel, Kirsten M. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
This study explores the relationship between aptitude, phonological memory (PM), and second language (L2) proficiency in nonnovice adult learners of English as an L2. Native speakers of French (N = 77) enrolled in a university Teaching English as a Second Language program were the participants in the study. Exploratory factor analysis revealed…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Factor Analysis
Siu, Fiona Kwai Peng – Online Submission, 2008
This study sets out to examine the pragmatic competence of Cantonese adult learners of English possessing different levels of proficiency when performing the speech act of requesting for a formal purpose in writing. Pragmatic judgment--one of the two aspects of pragmatic competence--was examined by studying the most proficient group (i.e., native…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Program Effectiveness

Gardner, Robert C. – Applied Language Learning, 1991
Reviews research conducted on adult populations dealing with correlates or predictors of proficiency in a second language. Four classes of individual difference variables are considered, including (1) attitudes and motivation; (2) language aptitude and intelligence; (3) language learning strategies; and (4) personality variables. (83 references)…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Individual Differences, Language Proficiency, Learning Motivation

Seright, Linda – TESOL Quarterly, 1985
Describes a study which examined the relationship between age and achievement of adults in an instructional setting. Older (25 to 41) and younger (17 to 24) French-speaking students were compared with respect to short-term development in aural comprehension. Results suggest that achievement rate decreases with increasing age. (SED)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Learning, Age Differences, Classroom Techniques

Chapelle, Carol; Roberts, Cheryl – Language Learning, 1986
Reports on a study of the influence of cognitive/affective variables on the second language learning ability of adults. Two variables, field independence and ambiguity tolerance, were found to be significant predictors of English as a second language proficiency for international students studying in the United States. (SED)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Cognitive Style, English (Second Language), Field Dependence Independence
Parry, Thomas S., Ed.; Stansfield, Charles W., Ed. – 1990
Six of 11 papers presented at a symposium on language aptitude testing are included in this document. "Cognitive Abilities in Foreign Language Aptitude: Then and Now" (John B. Carroll) reconsiders language aptitude testing 30 years after publication of the Modern Language Aptitude Test (MLAT). "Preliminary Investigation of the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Aptitude Tests, Case Studies, Cognitive Ability