Case Studies in Second Language Acquisition
An Investigation of the Role of Explicit and Implicit Instruction in Second Language Acquisition: A Case of English Embedded Question
... The second research question investigated whether there was significant differential performance between the study groups for production of the embedded “WH” ...some studies like, Lee and Benati (2007), and ...
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First Language Proficiency as a Facilitator in Foreign/ Second Language Acquisition: A Case Study in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
... first language as also the sole language of all personal and professional ...Foreign Language, usually a few years after they join ...the language, they are already well entrenched ...
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Willingness to Communicate in the Second Language Acquisition: A Case Study on Iranian 2-Year Old Kids
... of studies, including studies on students who are willing to communicate in the classroom (Chan, 1988, as cited in McCroskey, 1992), individuals’ willingness to communicate with authority figures (Combs, ...
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Introduction : Generative Second Language Acquisition and Language Pedagogy
... stimulus studies showing that acquisition under such circumstances is often delayed ...target language input, will lead to overcoming the specific poverty-of-the-stimulus problem in ...the ...
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ON EXAMINING COMMUNICATIVE TASKS IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
... the language addressed to language learners have shown that the linguistic environment of second language learners is rich in modifications (Chaudron, 1988; Hatch, 1983; Gass & Madden, ...
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Existential quantifiers in second language acquisition : a feature reassembly account
... stimulus studies showing that acquisition under such circumstances is often delayed ...target language input, will lead to overcoming the specific poverty-of-the-stimulus problem in ...the ...
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Motivation and Second Language Acquisition
... It is a feature of the Italian university system that “full-time” students are allowed to go fuori corso, i.e. take longer than the official course duration to complete their studies. Indeed, the ISTAT figures show ...
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CONTEXT OF LEARNING IN THE ACQUISITION OF SPANISH SECOND LANGUAGE PHONOLOGY
... Context-of-Learning Studies. There are two studies in which linguistic gain in the SA context has been observed + Simões ~1996! examined fluency in a group of five adult learners of Spanish who participated ...
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CLUF: a Neural Model for Second Language Acquisition Modeling
... et al., 2015; Wilson et al., 2016) is a recent im- plementation of knowledge tracing which uses Re- current Neural Networks (RNNs) to model stu- dent’s learning trace. Although RNNs and its commonly used variants, such ...
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From Visualisation to Hypothesis Construction for Second Language Acquisition
... potential language transfer effects by using additional linguistic features such as adaptor grammars and grammatical de- pendencies to analyse differences in learner ...
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The acquisition of syntax and morphology by learners of Japanese as a second language
... Clahsen's strategies make reliable predictions for the acquisition of word order. However, there are many points of criticism (cf. Pienemann, Johnston and Brindley 1987, White 1989, Eubank 1991). A major objection ...
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The Lexical Morpheme Acquisition of a Learner of English as a Second Language
... of language over time (Pienemann, ...since second language learning is a process happening through and over time, investigations of most L2 learning problems can be interpreted in a more meaningful ...
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Second Language Acquisition at the Phonetic-Phonological Interface: A proposal
... Page | 209 This paper is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. per different researchers. According to Singleton (2005) there is a lot of variation in what is meant by critical period Hypothesis ...
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Second Language Acquisition Modeling
... a language is more nuanced, involving the interaction of lexi- cal knowledge, morpho-syntactic processing, and several other ...natural language processing to lan- guage learner data has focused on ...
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Frequency Effects in Second Language Acquisition: An Annotated Survey
... There are numerous corpora that are available to language learners. Two of them are considered as mega corpora as they include millions of words. One of them is the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). ...
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The acquisition of the Latvian language as the Second language at preschool age in theory and practice
... the acquisition of language lexical units the Minority Preschool Educa- tion Program identi Þ es thematic groups and gives some examples within certain themes that children should ...Latvian language ...
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A Critical Review of the Interactionist Approach to Second Language Acquisition
... the language learner and their teacher or other native speaker or the interlocutors to arrive at the appropriate level of language ...that language data which could be understood but with a slight ...
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Theory Construction in Second Language Acquisition In Favor of the Rationalism
... Additionally, Gregg (2000) finds the relativist stance wide open to be criticized and their characters to be assassinated. Gregg criticizes Lantolf for not having a clear understanding of relativism and mistaking ...
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Acquiring Math: Connecting Math Learning and Second Language Acquisition
... academic language with reduced context clues in cognitively demanding content (ADR), the student is proficient in the second language and is able to understand academics mostly devoid of context ...
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SECOND LANGUAGE VOCABULARY ACQUISITION FROM A LINGUISTIC POINT OF VIEW
... English Language Dictionary (1987), for example, 15,000 words cover about 95 per cent of the running words of a ...a language course, an educational setting or an immigrant - the question that arises is: ...
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