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The Development of Sensitivity to Grammatical Violations in American Sign Language: Native versus Nonnative Signers
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Novogrodsky, Rama; Henner, Jon; Caldwell-Harris, Catherine; Hoffmeister, Robert – Language Learning, 2017
Factors influencing native and nonnative signers' syntactic judgment ability in American Sign Language (ASL) were explored for 421 deaf students aged 7;6-18;5. Predictors for syntactic knowledge were chronological age, age of entering a school for the deaf, gender, and additional learning disabilities. Mixed-effects linear modeling analysis…
Descriptors: Grammar, Sign Language, American Sign Language, Deafness
Network Statistical Models for Language Learning Contexts: Exponential Random Graph Models and Willingness to Communicate
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Gallagher, H. Colin; Robins, Garry – Language Learning, 2015
As part of the shift within second language acquisition (SLA) research toward complex systems thinking, researchers have called for investigations of social network structure. One strand of social network analysis yet to receive attention in SLA is network statistical models, whereby networks are explained in terms of smaller substructures of…
Descriptors: Graphs, Second Language Learning, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Instruction
Air Writing as a Technique for the Acquisition of Sino-japanese Characters by Second Language Learners
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Thomas, Margaret – Language Learning, 2015
This article calls attention to a facet of the expertise of second language (L2) learners of Japanese at the intersection of language, memory, gesture, and the psycholinguistics of a logographic writing system. Previous research has shown that adult L2 learners of Japanese living in Japan (similarly to native speakers of Japanese) often…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Japanese, Nonverbal Communication, Second Language Instruction
Exploring Utterance and Cognitive Fluency of L1 and L2 English Speakers: Temporal Measures and Stimulated Recall
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Kahng, Jimin – Language Learning, 2014
Although fluency constitutes an essential component of second language (L2) proficiency, there are mixed results and gaps in the literature on how L2 speakers' fluency differs from fluent speech production in a first language (L1). The research reported in this article investigated utterance fluency and cognitive fluency of L1 English…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Language Processing, Language Proficiency, Language Fluency
Measuring L2 Lexical Growth Using Hypernymic Relationships
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Crossley, Scott; Salsbury, Tom; McNamara, Danielle – Language Learning, 2009
This study investigated second language (L2) lexical development in the spontaneous speech of six adult, L2 English learners in a 1-year longitudinal study. One important aspect of lexical development is lexical organization and depth of knowledge. Hypernymic relations, the hierarchical relationships among related words that vary in relation to…
Descriptors: Speech, Semantics, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development
Effects of Trait Emotional Intelligence and Sociobiographical Variables on Communicative Anxiety and Foreign Language Anxiety among Adult Multilinguals: A Review and Empirical Investigation
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Dewaele, Jean-Marc; Petrides, K. V.; Furnham, Adrian – Language Learning, 2008
This study considered the effects of trait emotional intelligence (trait EI; Petrides & Mavroveli, 2007) and sociobiographical variables (age, gender, education level, number of languages known, age of onset of acquisition, context of acquisition, frequency of use, socialization, network of interlocutors, self-perceived proficiency) on…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Socialization, Second Languages, Multilingualism