Longitudinal data on the effects of first language loss on verb inflection and use by two Spanish-speaking siblings who were in an English-speaking environment were gathered. Both children were videotaped interacting with a familiar Spanish-speaking adult. A lexical morphology model was used to predict the course of first language loss. Examined…

Analyzes foreign language anxiety in the French as a second language and English as a third language speech production of 100 Flemish students. Findings suggest that foreign language anxiety is not a stable personality trait among experienced language learners. Societal as well as the individual contexts were found to determine levels of…

Drawing on the ethnography of communication, addresses the role of electronic channels for meaning making among Korean students in graduate TESOL classes in the United States. Looks at the ways that these electronic literacies provide opportunities for navigating Korean and U.S. cultures of learning. (Author/VWL)

Discusses national linguistic tensions related to the increasing number of Spanish speakers in the United States. Focuses on a group of language scholars who are engaging in efforts to change or suppress the use of U.S. Spanish, particularly in the domain of Spanish. Asserts that the arguments put forth by this group are based on attitudes of the…

Provides recommendations for the implementation of the communication, constructivism, and transference of knowledge (CCT) model in the education of English language learners (ELLS). Describes how the CCT model is identified in research studies and suggests specific recommendations to facilitate the implementation of the model in the education of…

This longitudinal study looks at the development of phonological skills among Brazilian students of English as a Foreign Language on a 4-year humanities course. Analyzed the influence of the first language on the development of these skills. Looks at one particular pronunciation feature (palatization) that has been found in the data. (Author/VWL)

Examined whether an intervention based on what is known about how children learn language could make a significant difference to English as an additional language learners' control over oral language, particularly in relation to literacy learners. Results from a range of assessments show it is possible to accelerate such learning. (Author/VWL)

Explores the growing ethnocultural diversity of some members of the Canadian Franco Ontarian community, an ever-increasing number of French-speaking immigrants. Describes practices that have been put in place in schools specifically to promote equity and inclusion in minority French language schools in a varied ethnocultural population.…

Examined pronunciation proficiency in both the first language (Korean) and the second language (English) of bilinguals. Participants were adult immigrants whose age of arrival to the United States ranged from 1 to 23 years. English and Korean sentences were rated by native listeners to obtain measures of pronunciation proficiency. (Author/VWL)

Explores the potential of cognitive linguistic notions such as conceptual metaphor and conceptual metonym for comparing the figurative phraseologies of English and Malay and anticipating second language learner difficulty. A comparative analysis is undertaken that identifies six types of relationship between figurative expressions in the two…

Reviews sociological analysis of the transformation of the link between language and identity among Soviet Jewish immigrants in Israel, focusing on their common desire for Russian language maintenance after their immigration to Israel. Argues that although the immigrants acquire fast, the former Jewish intelligensia's perception of the dominant…

Examines concerns and fears that were expressed recently about the influx of English loanwords in Cypriot Greek and in general the influence of English in Cyprus and reviews papers presented at a conference held in 1992 that dealt with the dominance of English and the suppression of Cypriot Greek. (Author/VWL)

Examined the perceptions of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students in the American University classroom. The purpose of the study was to look for patterns in student responses to a questionnaire about classroom behavior of both teachers and fellow students. Findings draw attention to the need for heightened sensitivity in multicultural…

Examines some consequences of optimality theoretic constraint ranking and violability for the study of phonological development. The empirical base for the study is provided by previously unpublished data from a longitudinal corpus of phonetically transcribed speech from four English-learning children. (Author/JL)

Discusses how second-language reading research is focusing increasingly on the cognitive processes involved in reading--the interaction of lower-level, bottom-up processes such as vocabulary acquisition with high-level, top-down processes such as activating prior knowledge. This knowledge is combined with current research on learning with…