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Direct linkContemori, Carla; Asiri, Ohood; Perea Irigoyen, Elva Deida – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
We test the interpretation of pronominal forms in L2 speakers of English whose L1 is Spanish. Previous research on learners of nonnull subject languages has shown conflicting results. The aim of the present study is to reconcile previous evidence and shed light on the factors that determine learners' difficulty to interpret pronominal forms in the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Form Classes (Languages), Difficulty Level, Native Speakers
Marini, Andrea; Eliseeva, Nadezda; Fabbro, Franco – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
The present study aimed at investigating whether L2 learning affects phonological short-term and working memory and first language (L1) development. The performance of a group of 31 4- to-5-year-old sequential bilinguals attending an International School on tasks assessing phonological short-term and working memory and linguistic performance in L1…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Short Term Memory, Phonology, Cognitive Development
Download full textMeunier, Fanny, Ed.; Van de Vyver, Julie, Ed.; Bradley, Linda, Ed.; Thouësny, Sylvie, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2019
The 27th European Association of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL) conference was hosted by UCLouvain in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), in collaboration with KU Leuven, from the 28th to the 31st of August 2019. The theme selected for the 2019 EuroCALL conference held in Louvain-la-Neuve was "CALL and complexity." As languages…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Lowry, Mark D. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Bilingual language control refers to how bilinguals are able to speak exclusively in one language without the unintended language intruding. Two prominent verbal theories of bilingual language control have been proposed by researchers: the inhibitory control model (ICM) and the lexical selection mechanism model (LSM). The ICM posits that…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Linguistic Theory, Language Processing, Computational Linguistics
Todirascu, Amalia; Cargill, Marion – Research-publishing.net, 2019
We present SimpleApprenant, a platform aiming to improve French L2 learners' knowledge of Multi Word Expressions (MWEs). SimpleApprenant integrates an MWE database annotated with the Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR) level and several Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools: a spelling checker, a parser, and a set of…
Descriptors: French, Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Chen, Aleck Shih-wei – Second Language Research, 2021
This article reports a study examining whether foreign language (FL) word learning can be improved with reduction in cognitive load. Cognitive load theory has received substantial supports in various fields of learning but never in FL word learning. Due to the defined poverty in exposure to the FL, hence deprived cognitive pre-requisites for…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Vocabulary Development
Fiestas, Christine E.; Lugo-Neris, Mirza J.; Pratt, Amy S.; Peña, Elizabeth D.; Bedore, Lisa M. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2021
This pilot study evaluates the feasibility of an integrated intervention titled "Language and Literacy Together" developed to target semantic and narrative skills in bilingual children at risk for developmental language disorder (DLD). Thirteen first-grade bilingual children who scored in the risk range for DLD on the Bilingual English…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Impairments, Transfer of Training, Literacy
Talaván, Noa; Ávila-Cabrera, José Javier – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2021
This article presents the SONAR project ("Subtitulación sOcial para proporcioNar Accesibilidad audiovisual en la univeRsidad" [SOcial subtitliNg to provide Audiovisual accessibility at the univeRsity]). Conducted to assess the validity of the creation of social subtitling networks, its ultimate goal is to better understand the role that…
Descriptors: Translation, Visual Aids, Program Descriptions, Social Networks
Loiseau, Nathalie; Delgado Luchner, Carmen – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2021
To date, research into conference interpreting has not produced a definition of the concrete subskills associated with an A, B and C language in interpreters' combinations of working languages. Existing frameworks for performance assessment in foreign languages are not designed to cover the very advanced range of language mastery associated with…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Mekni Toujani, Marwa – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
One of the major aims of discourse-processing literature is to understand whether and when readers form discourse-level representations online. To test this, two word-by-word, self-paced reading experiments investigated the time course of integrating incoming information about the protagonist into the unfolding discourse-level representation in…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Native Language, Discourse Analysis, Reading Processes
Lee, Sunjung – SAGE Open, 2020
This study examined the simultaneous effects of L2 individual difference (ID) variables (aptitude, motivation, strategy use, language processing experience, and gender) on English as a foreign language (EFL) breadth and depth of L2 vocabulary knowledge of 492 Korean university-level learners. Independent variable measures included the: (1) Korean…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Structural Equation Models
Ahmed, Amer; Lenchuk, Iryna – Arab World English Journal, 2020
This article reports on the results of action research conducted in a university ESP classroom in Oman. The impetus for this research was the practitioner's dissatisfaction with the current practice of introducing the grammatical concept of the English passive and its subsequent results. Framed within the sociocultural theory of cognitive…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English for Special Purposes
Ahmad, Iesar – Arab World English Journal, 2020
The research work attempts to investigate that in any geographical contact zone, where the diverse languages and cultures intersect, there would inevitably be linguistic and cultural integration and assimilation. In a similar vein, the worldwide dissemination of the English language has radically shaped the linguistic and textual devices installed…
Descriptors: Native Language, Semitic Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Comprehension in English Medium Instruction (EMI) Lectures: On the Impact of Lecturer L2 English Use
Siegel, Joseph – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
The importance and amount of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) usage and English Medium Instruction (EMI) lectures continue to increase on university campuses as universities worldwide seek to promote internationalization among both the student body and the faculty. While EMI has become a priority, the teaching and learning that occurs within this…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Language Usage, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
Dosi, Ifigeneia; Papadopoulou, Despina – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
The present study aims at exploring: (a) the role of the educational setting in the acquisition of aspect and executive functions (i.e. updating) skills, (b) the acquisition of the aspectual features in Greek-German bilingual children and (c) the impact of updating on the acquisition of aspect. Imperfective aspect has been found to be acquired…
Descriptors: Role, Educational Environment, Executive Function, Greek
