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Yen-Ren, Ting – ELT Journal, 1996
Hypothesizes that organizational problems in second-language (L2) writing may result from the employment of first-language (L1) drafting strategies. The article maintains that research in L2 writing processes has not paid attention to the conditions for the transfer of L1 composing strategies into L2 writing. Pedagogical implications are…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Language Processing, Learning Strategies
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Moore, Johanna D. – Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 1996
Describes those features that distinguish human tutorial explanations from those produced by computer-based instructional systems utilizing natural language interfaces. This is illustrated through a study conducted on an intelligent instruction system, drawing comparisons between student interaction with a human tutor and the system feedback.…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Discourse Analysis
Cazaux, Henri – Francais dans le Monde, 1996
A teacher/storyteller recommends story creation by students to encourage creativity and pleasure in developing language skills. Suggested exercises include combining random nouns (e.g., "le fer et le bois") and creating a proverb about them, creating a story using names of consumer products, and developing a story using only body-language idioms…
Descriptors: Body Language, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Creativity
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Beck, Marie-Luise – Second Language Research, 1997
Points out that earlier research (1991) indicates that adult second language (L2) learners have difficulties determining the relationship between obligatory verb-raising and verbal inflection. Results of the experiments reported here indicate that L2 competence includes a deficit affecting only the lexical or morphosyntactic mechanisms involved in…
Descriptors: College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Form Classes (Languages), Higher Education
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Emmorey, Karen – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Discusses two experiments investigating non-antecedent suppression in American Sign Language (ASL). Findings indicate that spoken and signed languages use the same processing mechanisms in resolving co-reference relations. Results also indicate that within the probe recognition paradigm, the spatial indexing of ASL pronouns is similar to gender…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, English, Error Analysis (Language)
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Kitajima, Ryu – Foreign Language Annals, 1997
Examines whether strategy training orienting second language (L2) students' attention toward referential processes improves their comprehension of Japanese narrative. Findings revealed that experimental students comprehended the story at the macro level significantly better than control students, suggesting that the strategy training is beneficial…
Descriptors: College Students, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Japanese
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Hansen-Strain, Lynne – Language Learning, 1989
Examines group differences in second-language development from perspectives provided by literature on orality and literacy. Results show that university English-as-a-Second-Language students from traditional oral cultures tended to focus on interpersonal involvement in their speaking and writing, and use difficult structures more than students…
Descriptors: College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Differences, Discourse Analysis
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Saville-Troike, Muriel – Journal of Child Language, 1988
Study of children who go through a "silent period" early in the course of second language development found that most of the children engaged in extensive private speech, including: repetition of others' utterances; recall and practice; creation of new linguistic forms; paradigmatic substitution; and rehearsal for overt social…
Descriptors: Child Language, Chinese, Discovery Processes, English (Second Language)
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Heilenman, L. Kathy; McDonald, Janet L. – Language Learning, 1993
The comprehension processing strategies of 15 monolingual English and 8 bilingual French native speakers were compared with those of 112 second-language learners of French, using stimuli containing word order and clitic pronoun cues in French. Results indicated differential dependence on cue use by native speakers. (Contains 97 references.)…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Context Clues, French
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Lovett, Maureen W.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Compared two forms of word identification training to promote transfer of learning by dyslexic children. One program taught phonological analysis and blending skills and provided direct instruction of letter-sound correspondences; the other taught the acquisition, use, and monitoring of four metacognitive decoding strategies. Both approaches were…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Decoding (Reading), Dyslexia, Language Processing
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MacWhinney, Brian – Language Testing, 1995
Reviews factors influencing reversals of expectations for language-learning outcomes. This article touches on psychological and neurological data regarding individual differences in language-learning mechanisms and focuses on cross-linguistic psycholinguistic analysis that indicates that different target languages offer a wide variety of learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Data Analysis, Individual Differences, Language Aptitude
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Ellis, Rod – TESOL Quarterly, 1995
The traditional approach to grammar teaching provides learners with opportunities to produce specific grammatical structures. This article explores an alternative approach, one based on interpreting input. The rationale for the approach is discussed, as are the principles for designing interpretation tasks for grammar teaching. (Contains 35…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Competency Based Education, Grammar, Interpretive Skills
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Surian, Luca – Journal of Child Language, 1995
Investigated the relationship between children's failures to produce unambiguous utterances and the mental effort demands in children (ages five, six, seven, and nine years), using finger-tapping and message production tasks, separately and simultaneously. Findings suggest that the relative effort requirements of communication decrease with…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Communication Skills
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Geva, Esther; And Others – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1993
Tests the hypothesis that differences between first-language (L1) and second-language (L2) reading and spelling profiles could be accounted for by lack of proficiency in the L2 or differences in orthographic complexity. Finds that neither of these explanations alone sufficed to explain the development of reading and spelling in the two languages…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Decoding (Reading)
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MacGillivray, Laurie – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1994
Examines first graders' tacit shared understandings about composing as related to expectations about the processes and meaning of writing. Finds evidence of three cultural themes: (1) the processes of creating and sharing text-mediated relationships with others; (2) writing was used to explore "self" and the world; and (3) collaborative composing…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Grade 1, Language Processing, Peer Influence
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