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Effects of Reflective Processes on Social–Emotional Trait Development in Adulthood: Insights From Two Multi‐Method Studies

open access: yesJournal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This research investigates how reflective processes, such as past‐temporal and social comparisons, enhance changes in explicit and implicit self‐concepts of social–emotional traits and whether these effects differ with age. Method We conducted two preregistered multi‐method studies to examine whether past‐temporal or social ...
Gabriela Küchler   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Awareness of Grammatical Variability in Language Contact: The Case of Mano and Kpelle in Guinea

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper contributes to research on the awareness of grammatical variability through a study of variation in reflexivity marking in Mano under the influence of Kpelle, both indigenous languages of Guinea. The speakers of these languages are found to be sensitive to contact‐induced grammatical variation in reflexivity, which manifests via ...
Maria Khachaturyan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing the Efficacy of Pre-School Language Interventions-Building Early Sentences Therapy and an Adapted Derbyshire Language Scheme. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Lang Commun Disord
McKean C   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Order Effects in Second Language Learning

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract We explore how general principles of learning apply to and combine with usage‐based approaches to language learning and teaching, with a focus on the effects of order of exposure to new information in second language (L2) instruction. Although the effects of input spacing and timing on memory and learning have been previously explored (see ...
Laurence Romain   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neural Evidence for Syntactic Unification in Second Language Sentence Comprehension: A Time‐Frequency Analysis

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates whether syntactic unification occurs during online L2 sentence comprehension using time‐frequency analysis. We measured the oscillatory power changes in native English speakers and L1‐Cantonese L2‐English speakers while they were reading well‐formed English sentences, syntactically intact nonsense sentences, and random ...
Yoonsang Song, Yu Li, Patrick C. M. Wong
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Task Instructions on Predictive Eye Movements and Word Recognition During Second Language Sentence Comprehension

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This study tested whether encouraging prediction enhances prediction in second language (L2) speakers. L2 English speakers listened to English sentences like The woman … will read/buy one of the newspapers while viewing the target (a newspaper) and distractor objects (a rose, a bowl, and a mango) on a screen and clicked on the target as ...
Aine Ito
wiley   +1 more source

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