Language Acquisition (first & second)
First language acquisition vs second language learning: What is the difference?
... Language acquisition is one of the most impressive aspects of human ...generations. First Language Acquisition (FLA) and New Language Learning (NLL) have sometimes been treated ...
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Second Language Acquisition: Reconciling Theories
... of language and sees language as a mirror of the ...a language faculty, the language acquisition device, which is responsible for the initial state of language ...L1 ...
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Literature Review of Theories of Second Language Acquisition
... of second language acquisition is based on Chomsky’s hypothesis that human beings are born with biological mental structures designed for language ...a language system based on the ...
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Towards a definition of intake in second language acquisition
... Finally, although not concerning itself so much with attempts to define intake, some recent neurobiological research has made efforts to come to a more precise understanding of what constitutes intake and where in the ...
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First Language Proficiency as a Facilitator in Foreign/ Second Language Acquisition: A Case Study in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
... the 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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The Role of Input in First Language Acquisition
... their first language, and also it is a try to show the effect of the quantity of input on first language ...their first language. The participants of the first study were ...
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Feature Engineering for Second Language Acquisition Modeling
... Knowledge tracing serves as a keystone in de- livering personalized education. However, few works attempted to model students’ knowl- edge state in the setting of Second Language Acquisition. The ...
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Context Based Approach for Second Language Acquisition
... We posit that, the zone of proximal develop- ment (Vygotsky and Cole, 1978) plays a crucial role in language acquisition. The theory suggests that, when a student is in her zone of proximal de- velopment, ...
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The logical problem of scaffolding in second language acquisition
... promoting second language (L2) ...The first and foremost concerns the phenomenological nature of scaffolding in the sense that the original conception of the notion does not support its implication ...
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Motivation and Second Language Acquisition
... a language learner would have both intrinsic and instrumental motivation since the specific and clearly defined goals of the latter would complement the enthusiasm generated by the ...in second ...
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The ubiquity of frequency effects in first language acquisition
... to language change (Bybee, ) and adult sentence processing (Ellis, ...rst language acquisition, and to summarize the di ff erent types of frequency e ff ect that are observed across all of ...
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First Language Acquisition
... a first language is unlike most other forms of ...of language. Obviously, language itself cannot be learned in this ...that language learning requires, in some sense, a special ...
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A Production System Model of First Language Acquisition
... A PRODUCTION SYSTEM MODEL OF FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION A PRODUCTION SYSTEM MODEL OF FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Pat Langley Department of Psychology Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania[.] ...
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ON EXAMINING COMMUNICATIVE TASKS IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
... to language development than attention, though it is an essential initial step for language ...their language production that may create a necessary condition for second language ...and ...
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Second Language Acquisition Modeling: An Ensemble Approach
... have multiple correct answers. Secondly, there are a number of variables available at each point in time which represent information from the fu- ture creating a form of data leakage. Finally, the fact that interactions ...
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The or That: Definite and Demonstrative Descriptions in Second Language Acquisition
... Since Heubner's (1985) pioneering study, there have been many studies on (mis) use/ non-use of articles by L2 learners from article- less and article languages. The present study investigated how Persian L2 learners of ...
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Using NLP for Enhancing Second Language Acquisition
... SMILLE was developed based on a scenario in which the users are already pursuing a foreign lan- guage course and wish to continue the language learning activity by means of reading Web-based material that ...
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Frequency effects and second language acquisition
... target language may direct learners’ attention to relevant input, generating linguistic knowledge that is new, or consolidating the learner’s existing ...duce language is crucial for learners and that ...
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Introduction : Generative Second Language Acquisition and Language Pedagogy
... and their closest ungrammatical equivalents (Type 6, *Nonfactive V, and Type 7, *Even). The difference was significant for Negative V v. *Nonfactive V (t(19)=3.29, p<.005), but not for Only v. *Even (t(19)=.65, ...
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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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