Multilingualism and third language acquisition: Learning and teaching trends [PDF]
, 2021 The purpose of this book is to present recent studies in the field of multilingualism and L3, bringing together contributions from an international group of specialists from Austria, Canada, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and United ...
Yanaprasart, Patchareerat +15 more
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Third language acquisition: Age, proficiency and multilingualism [PDF]
, 2020 This book deals with the phenomenon of third language (L3) acquisition. As a research field, L3 acquisition is established as a branch of multilingualism that is concerned with how multilinguals learn additional languages and the role that their ...
Gudmundson, Anna +9 more
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Foreign language teaching: A study of teachers’ beliefs about effective teaching and learning methodologies [PDF]
Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2016 This study reveals the beliefs of 25 foreign language teachers about effective teaching and learning practices and also evaluates the impact of a teacher training workshop on their beliefs.
Farid Saydee
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Languages, 2020 The present study deals with the perception (identification and discrimination) of an English phonemic contrast (/t∫/–/∫/, as in cheat and sheet) by speakers of two Mexican varieties of Spanish who are learning English as a foreign language.
Mariela López Velarde, Miquel Simonet
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Online Statistical Learning in Developmental Language Disorder
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 Purpose: The vulnerability of statistical learning (SL) in developmental language disorder (DLD) has mainly been demonstrated with metacognitive offline measures which give little insight into the more specific nature and timing of learning.
Ágnes Lukács +5 more
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Role of Subtitles in L2 Acquisition and Comprehension: A Pilot Study of Hearing-Impaired Students
Languages, 2021 The purpose of this study was to investigate whether subtitles can facilitate language processing in English as a second language (L2) and, if so, which subtitles would be more beneficial for hard-of-hearing students with Norwegian as their first ...
Mila Vulchanova +1 more
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Language acquisition as learning [PDF]
Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics -, 1992 Chomsky's proposition that language is handled by a language-specific faculty needs more justification. In language acquisition in particular, it is still in question whether the faculty is necessary or not. We succeeded in explaining one constraint on language acquisition in terms of a general learning mechanism.
Mikiko Nishikimi +2 more
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Acquisition of Sign Languages [PDF]
Annual Review of Linguistics, 2021 Natural sign languages of deaf communities are acquired on the same time scale as that of spoken languages if children have access to fluent signers providing input from birth. Infants are sensitive to linguistic information provided visually, and early milestones show many parallels.
Diane, Lillo-Martin, Jonathan, Henner
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Generative SLA in the age of minimalism: features, interfaces, and beyond : selected proceedings of the 15th Generative approaches to second language acquisition conference Language acquisition & language disorders ;, v.67./ edited by Tania Leal, Elena Shimanskaya, Casilde A. Isabelli, University of Nevada, Reno. [PDF]
, 2022 Proceedings of the 15th Generative approaches to second language acquisition conference which took place at the University of Nevada, Reno on March 22-24, 2019.Includes bibliographical references and index."This volume brings together empirical studies ...
Shimanskaya Elena +2 more
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Multilingualism from a language acquisition perspective [PDF]
, 2020 This chapter conceptualizes and discusses two subtypes of multilingualism, namely, (a) third language acquisition in learners who have prior experience in acquiring one or more non-native languages, and (b) subsequent language acquisition in learners who
Sánchez, Laura,, Laura Sánchez
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