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Rothman, Jason; Iverson, Michael – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2007
It has been argued that extended exposure to naturalistic input provides L2 learners with more of an opportunity to converge of target morphosyntactic competence as compared to classroom-only environments, given that the former provide more positive evidence of less salient linguistic properties than the latter (e.g., Isabelli 2004). Implicitly,…
Descriptors: Grammar, Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Morphology (Languages)
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Hamblock, Dieter – Zielsprache Englisch, 1973
Descriptors: Context Clues, English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
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Traphagan, Tomoko Watanabe – Foreign Language Annals, 1997
Analyzes data from oral interviews with child learners of Japanese as a second language. Findings indicate that: tasks sensitive to students' understanding of critical syntactic structures and manageable for their cognitive level were effective; high-level students tried to produce more Japanese with more complexity; and phrase particle use was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students, FLES
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Diaconescu, Rodica Constanta; Goodluck, Helen – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2004
Frazier and Clifton (2002) argue that a d(iscourse)-linked wh-phrase such as which boy attracts the reference of a pronoun in a subordinate clause. We translated Frazier and Clifton's materials from English into Romanian. Romanian is a pro-drop language in which null subjects are licensed by person and number agreement on the verb. We found that…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Romance Languages, Native Speakers