Significance for the Second Language Learner
The role of non-verbal communication in second language learner and native speaker discourse
... a second language ...of second language learners and native ...in learner/native speaker discourse (Marsh et ...in second language ...foreign language teachers in ...
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Learner Identity in Second Language Education
... show, learner-generated-texts can be culturally responsive because learners find familiar socio-cultural experiences in the stories they hear from their ...
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Learner Modelling for Individualised Reading in a Second Language
... The second part of this chapter presents the case for using mixed-language texts for L2 learning, and discusses why they are not more widely used—a key reason being that manually creating high-quality ...
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Identity Crisis of the Ghanaian Learner of English as a Second Language
... Ghanaian learner of English as a second language is trapped in the context depicted ...Ghanaian learner tries to act in ways that he believes will gain approval of accepted standards of ...
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Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands as a Learner of English as a Second Language
... In the first stage of analysis, the WordList tool was used to obtain information about corpus size and vocabulary size, computed as the relationship between the number of tokens and types respectively, standardized ...
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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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Dörnyei, Z. - The Psychology of the Language Learner: : Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition
... language), many people seem to master an L2, regardless of their aptitude differences. Let me conclude this introductory section with a personal note: This chapter is somewhat different from the others in the ...
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Second Language Comprehensibility Revisited: Investigating the Effects of Learner Background
... The second suggests that the linguistic dimensions that influence how L2 comprehensibility is perceived vary as a function of speakers’ ...for language teaching, although more information is still needed ...
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Second language comprehensibility revisited: investigating the effects of learner background
... Finally, instructors teaching homogeneous groups of L2 learners may benefit from an understanding of the specific linguistic variables that impact their learners’ comprehensibility and accentedness. And while instructors ...
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Learner generated content and engagement in second language task performance
... be trained as data reporters and report cases collected by other health workers from the health 276. facility[r] ...
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Second language comprehensibility revisited: investigating the effects of learner background
... Finally, instructors teaching homogeneous groups of L2 learners may benefit from an understanding of the specific linguistic variables that impact their learners’ comprehensibility and accentedness. And while instructors ...
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Learning to Listen: A Strategy-based Approach for the Second-language Learner
... The case studies have been chosen to illustrate the theoretical back- ground. They also illustrate how difficult it is to generalize about teaching English overseas-each context has to b[r] ...
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The role of input variability and learner age in second language vocabulary learning
... In conclusion, while the data from our adult learners (at least from production) supports a theory in which the presence of “irrelevant” speaker identity cues aid lexical learning, our child data suggests that this ...
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Predicting Second Language Learner Successes and Mistakes by Means of Conjunctive Features
... Abstract This paper describes the system developed by the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics for the 2018 Duolingo SLAM challenge. It aimed at predicting the successes and mistakes of second language ...
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Adult second language acquisition: a selective overview with a focus on the learner linguistic system
... Two large-scale recent studies addressing the Critical Period Hypothesis should be cited, those of Abrahamsson and Hyltenstam (2009) and Dekeyser, Alfi-Shabtay and Ravid (2010). Both studies are a considerable ...
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Mining Words in the Minds of Second Language Learners: Learner Specific Word Difficulty
... predicting second language learners’ vocabulary and propose another model for this vocabulary prediction ...A learner interested in music may know special music-related terms regardless of their ...a ...
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Second language micro-development of an English learner of Chinese :a sociocultural case study
... Conversely, a growing number of studies calls for the re-examination of L1 use in the L2 classroom (Waer, 2012). Those studies demonstrate that the use of L1 actually facilitates L2 learning and development in a variety ...
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The weak language learner
... However, the teachers were not explicitly asked about this. Most likely the teachers would have experienced at least some weak language learners with such problems, if asked. 4.1.2 Discovering the students Why are ...
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English as a Second Language Program Guide: Planning for English Language Learner Success. Department of Defense Education Activity
... practice, language games and Reader’s ...the language or vocabulary, activating prior knowledge, and building background knowledge of the content class ...
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Grappling with the oral skills. The learning and teaching of the low-literate adult second language learner
... about second language learning in general and in particular that of the non-literate ...the second language teachers association was the founding of LESLLA, an international network of all ...
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