Comprehensible Input in Second Language Acquisition
Bedtime Stories In English: Field-Testing Comprehensible Input Materials For Natural Second-Language Acquisition In Japanese Pre-School Children
... with comprehensible input during their critical period for second language ...target language) are used in the story, providing enough information for a child to be able to follow the ...
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Book floods and comprehensible input floods: providing ideal conditions for second language acquisition
... The Fiji Book Flood Project occurred in a context in which SL learners were learning English through a program that was going to predispose them to focus on forms. Children tended to believe that SL was learned through ...
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Preparing Students For Class: A Hybrid Enhancement To Language Learning
... in second language acquisition has pointed out that one of the most important elements in language learning is the role of comprehensible input (see Gass, 1997 for a ...without ...
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Literature Review of Theories of Second Language Acquisition
... The comprehensible output hypothesis has evolved from the interaction hypothesis which states that conversational interaction is an essential condition for second language acquisition (Hotch, ...
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ON EXAMINING COMMUNICATIVE TASKS IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
... the second language ...an input-output metaphor for language ...(1985) input hypothesis, may be summarized thus: 1) Interactional modification makes input ...2) ...
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First language acquisition vs second language learning: What is the difference?
... in language learning, namely stimulus / ...of language mainly through input from adults and other caregivers and then try to create new forms and new uses of words until they finally figure out how ...
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The logical problem of scaffolding in second language acquisition
... of input to the effect of comprehension, production and development process ...words, acquisition does not take place in a vacuum but is deeply embedded in a sociocultural milieu, which is anchored in and ...
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Errors in the learning of Italian as a foreign language: a contribution to the debate on the difference between acquiring a language in natural circumstances and learning a language in a classroom
... The present study is based on the distinction between Second Language Acquisition (SLA), the acquisition of an L2 in a natural context, and Foreign Language Learning (FLL) in[r] ...
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Towards a definition of intake in second language acquisition
... the second language, did not fully develop in particular certain grammatical aspects of the target ...produce comprehensible output, they would be pushed to be more accurate and to pay attention to ...
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The or That: Definite and Demonstrative Descriptions in Second Language Acquisition
... L2 acquisition. Article-acquisition in L2-English is a good ...The acquisition of English articles by adult L2-learners has been extensively investigated (see, among many others, Goad &White, ...
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Using NLP for Enhancing Second Language Acquisition
... each language levels. The CEFR was de- signed for language learning, but Web-based doc- uments normally don’t have this instructive ap- proach by ...a language course, differ- ent grammatical ...
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Modelling semantic acquisition in second language learning
... learner language from the perspective of automated as- sessment or error detection and correction (Lea- cock et ...native language in terms of er- rors in L2, rather than from a language develop- ...
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Second Language Acquisition Modeling: An Ensemble Approach
... Accurate prediction of students knowledge is a fundamental building block of personalized learning systems. Here, we propose a novel ensemble model to predict student knowl- edge gaps. Applying our approach to student ...
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Feature Engineering for Second Language Acquisition Modeling
... Various approaches have been proposed for mod- eling student learning. Two representatives are Bayesian Knowledge Tracing (Corbett and An- derson, 1994) and Performance Factor Analysis (Pavlik Jr et al., 2009), both of ...
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The acquisition of the Latvian language as the Second language at preschool age in theory and practice
... Latvian language teachers should more and more systematically support the acquisition of new knowledge on ...ent language units in different combinations, for example, přrk maizi [buy bread] ...new ...
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From Visualisation to Hypothesis Construction for Second Language Acquisition
... In this paper, prompted by work on using computa- tional visualisation techniques to help SLA researchers form hypotheses about errors and the environments in which they are made, we have defined a new task for finding ...
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CLUF: a Neural Model for Second Language Acquisition Modeling
... of second language learning, we try to predict whether the learning materials are too easy or too hard for language ...the Second Lan- guage Acquisition Modeling (SLAM) task to build a ...
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The acquisition of syntax and morphology by learners of Japanese as a second language
... measures acquisition and development only in terms of accuracy; progression towards and deviation from the TL (therefore terms like "reduction"; there can only be a reduction if a more complex form is ...
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The Lexical Morpheme Acquisition of a Learner of English as a Second Language
... a second language, Pienemann (1998) tested the predictions of PT on the acquisition of L2 English morphological and syntactic structures against cross-sectional data from two empirical studies - ...
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Frequency Effects in Second Language Acquisition: An Annotated Survey
... target language input and ...only language before they started the ...the second experiment was conducted with 18 bilingual undergraduate ...
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