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Age, Experience and Language and Literacy Skills in English-Arabic Speaking Syrian Refugees
Although age of acquisition (AoA) is frequently used when examining the endpoint of second language (L2) learning, it is rarely used to examine the initial phases of L2 acquisition.
Alexandra Gottardo +5 more
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Differential effects of internal and external factors on the development of vocabulary, tense morphology and morpho-syntax in successive bilingual children [PDF]
The present study investigates the effects of child internal (age/time) and child external/environmental factors on the development of a wide range of language domains in successive bilingual (L2) Turkish-English children of homogeneously low SES.
Chondrogianni, Vicky, Marinis, Theo
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In recent years there has been an increase in research on the acquisition of morphological aspects of a second language (L2). Specifically, a number of studies have been conducted on the acquisition of grammatical gender in the L2.
Ellis, Carla +2 more
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The acquisition of reading skills of 100 monolingual English and 100 bilingual Zulu-English third-grade learners was investigated by measuring their phonological- and reading skills.
Diana Soares De Sousa
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Child L2 development: a longitudinal case study on voice onset times in word-initial stops [PDF]
This paper reports the results of a longitudinal case study examining the acquisition of the English voice system by a three-year-old native speaker of Dutch.
Simon, Ellen
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Syntactic development in early foreign language learning: Effects of L1 transfer, input and individual factors [PDF]
This study explores parallels and differences in the comprehension of wh-questions and relative clauses between early foreign-language (FL) learners and monolingual children.
Anja Steinlen +27 more
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Drawing on Moreno's cognitive-affective theory of learning with media, this research aims to investigate the effectiveness of different multimedia glosses on learners' vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension in a CALL environment. A total of 160
Shufang Wang, Chang In Lee
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Reaching out to the other side: Formal-linguistics-based SLA and Socio-SLA [PDF]
Generative linguistics has long been concerned with the linguistic competence of the “ideal speaker-listener, in a completely homogeneous speech-community, who knows its language perfectly” (Chomsky 1965: 3).
Kinzler +30 more
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Avoiding the Comparative Fallacy: A Review of Two Recent SLA Studies
One of the most common approaches to studying L2 acquisition involves the comparison of L2 performance and L1 norms with regard to a particular linguistic feature.
Shirin Murphy
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The The Impact of Orthographic Transparency and Typology on L2 Learner Perceptions
While there is substantial research on literacy in the L1, factors impacting literacy in the L2 remain understudied. Preliminary research indicates that orthographic accuracy and typology influence literacy acquisition, indicating these aspects of ...
Rachel Garton
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