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Harley, Birgit; Hart, Doug – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1997
Investigates the relationship between language aptitude components and second language (L2) outcomes among learners whose intensive L2 exposure began at different ages. Findings reveal that in adolescence immersion, a positive relationship occurs between L2 outcomes and an analytical dimension of language aptitude, whereas in early immersion, a…
Descriptors: Age, Cloze Procedure, Developmental Stages, Elementary School Students
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Leow, Ronald P. – Language Learning, 1997
Examined the role of awareness in relation to R. W. Schmidt's noticing hypothesis in second language acquisition. The study analyzed the think-aloud protocols of adult learners of Spanish as a second language as they were completing a problem-solving task as well as their immediate performances on two post-exposure assessment tasks, a recognition…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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Sasaki, Yoshinori – Applied Linguistics, 1997
Reports on follow-up analyses of Sasaki's (in press) competition experiment study of Japanese sentence comprehension strategies conducted to investigate the double-object active and transitive causative sentence processing strategies by English-speaking learners of Japanese and how immediate error feedback affects them. The article contrasts…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Feedback
Allouche, Victor – Francais dans le Monde, 1996
A French professor teaching in Australia, and learning to cope with the distinctive features of Australian English, reflects on second-language learning processes and their implications for language teaching. Topics discussed include verbal versus nonverbal communication, authentic language situations, cultural context, developing…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), French, Interference (Language)
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Gibbs, Simon – Language & Communication, 1996
Explores one aspect of the possible relationship between speech perception and the awareness of linguistically relevant sound patterns in the first years of word reading. No evidence emerged of a concurrent association between children's skills in labelling speech sounds at the beginning of words and their phonological awareness of either rhyme or…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Child Language
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Pueyo, Isabel Gonzalez; Val, Sonia – English for Specific Purposes, 1996
Presents a study of technical lexical structures with the aim of assisting students of English as a Second Language in processing and deciphering the lexico-grammatical realization of technology in the field of plastics. The analysis aims to show that technical terminology is closely related to grammar, and that technical lexis and grammar should…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Software, Databases, English (Second Language)
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Hales, Tom – ELT Journal, 1997
Examines language in an initial teacher training course and shows how trainees' awareness can be raised by looking at samples of the way they use it themselves. (five references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Course Content, English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Processing
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Paul, Rhea – Topics in Language Disorders, 1990
This article relates the ability to understand individual sentences both in and out of context by normal and developmentally delayed children at various developmental stages to the concept of world knowledge. Implications for assessment and treatment of sentence comprehension deficits among language-disordered students are discussed. (PB)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Context Effect, Developmental Disabilities, Developmental Stages
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Harste, Jerry – Reading Teacher, 1990
Summarizes key insights from the author's studies of literacy. Makes three recommendations which are designed to explore curriculum as a potential for language learning. (MG)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition
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Marshall, James D.; Durst, Russel K. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1990
Annotates 136 conference papers, journal articles, and doctoral dissertations from 1988 and 1989 dealing with research in the teaching of English. Includes sections on writing, language, literature, and teacher education. (RS)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Higher Education, Language Acquisition
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Johnson, Janice – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1989
Examination of factors underlying cross-language transfer in metaphor interpretation among bilingual (Spanish-English) 7- to 12-year-olds indicated that metaphor interpretation ability was higher in the older subjects. The level of metaphor interpretation was most strongly related to cognitive-developmental variables that were interdependent…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingualism, Child Language, Children
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Taylor, H. Gerry; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1989
Investigation of associations between learning-disabled children's ability to repeat pseudowords and their performances on other measures of phonological processing and academic achievement found that repetition ability was more closely related to reading and spelling skills than to mathematics achievement, while measures of phonological skills…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Associative Learning, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis
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Mulford, George W. – Computers and the Humanities, 1989
Outlines the history of semantically based programs that have influenced the design of computer assisted language instruction (CALI) programs. Describes early attempts to make intelligent CALI as well as current projects, including the Foreign Language Adventure Game, developed at the University of Delaware. Describes some important…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
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Neuwirth, Christine M. – Computers and the Humanities, 1989
Discusses the potential and the limitations of intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) in the teaching of writing. Outlines the goals and significance of research, and analyzes the pedagogical assumptions underlying such research. Describes the architecture of these systems and illustrates instructional design issues by describing the ITS program,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Courseware, Discovery Learning
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Peregoy, Suzanne F.; Boyle, Owen F. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1991
Examines differences among three levels of third grade second-language (L2) readers on four oral variables: grammatical complexity; well-formedness; informativeness; and comprehension. Kruskal-Wallis tests indicate significant differences on all variables between low and high readers. Differences between intermediate and high groups were…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Grade 3
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