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Foreign Language Learning Difficulties

Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1998
For 10 years, the authors of this article have examined cognitive, affective, and linguistic influences on foreign language learning. They have proposed the Linguistic Coding Differences Hypothesis (LCDH) as a model for understanding foreign language learning problems. The authors review their empirical support for the LCDH and explain the diagnostic,
L, Ganschow, R L, Sparks, J, Javorsky
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Foreign Language Learning

Topics in Language Disorders
Purpose: Although autistic perspectives are paramount for evidence-based practice and the neurodiversity paradigm, they are often underrepresented in research and have only recently started to get attention from professionals in different fields, including communication sciences and disorders (CSD) and foreign language teaching
Henry Angulo-Jiménez, Marisela Bonilla-López, Esteban Rojas-Ramírez   +2 more
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Foreign Languages Learning

2020
This chapter examines which capabilities of interactive TV can be used to enhance the foreign languages learning experience in children and adolescents. In modern English language courses, interactive whiteboard software and interactive e-books provide several multimedia capabilities, whose relative transition in their iTV version can be of great ...
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Foreign Language Learning

2017
This chapter reveals the overview of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in foreign language learning; the overview of mobile technology in foreign language learning; the overview of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL); the overview of web-based language learning; Facebook applications in global education; social media applications in ...
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Language-specific prediction in foreign language learning

Language Testing, 1995
Language educators have often suggested that some students may be relatively better at certain types of languages. However, the ways in which target language structures interact with individual differences in language learners has never been seriously investigated.
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On Learning a Foreign Language

The Modern Language Journal, 1945
Author's Summary— A critical examination of the problems now facing American teachers and administrators as a result of the Army's Specialized Training Program, such as: methods of instruction, intensive courses, the “scientific‐conversational” approach, the use of informants, etc.
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Foreign Language Learning Differences:

The Modern Language Journal, 1991
immersing an adult in a foreign language culture would force or motivate that individual to learn the language.' In the same audience sat a woman who admitted to having spent two years in each of three northern European countries with her husband, who had failed to learn any of the languages involved.2 Testimonials continued as conference participants ...
Richard L. Sparks, Leonore Ganschow
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Foreign Language Aptitude and Foreign Language Learning

The field of language aptitude can tell us a lot about the acquisition foreign languages in children and adolescents, who have been so far under-researched populations. Although memory and auditory abilities involve more implicit processes and are therefore more relevant for child learners, research shows they might be particularly important in ...
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Korean Foreign Language Learning

2016
This article presents intercultural and linguistic exchanges by foreign language learners in an exploratory study of Internet-based desktop videoconferencing between Korean learners at a university in the United States, and their counterparts at a South Korean college.
Byung-jin Lim, Danielle O. Pyun
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Singing can facilitate foreign language learning

Memory & Cognition, 2013
This study presents the first experimental evidence that singing can facilitate short-term paired-associate phrase learning in an unfamiliar language (Hungarian). Sixty adult participants were randomly assigned to one of three "listen-and-repeat" learning conditions: speaking, rhythmic speaking, or singing.
Ludke, Karen M., Ferreira, Fernanda, Overy, Katie   +2 more
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