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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionTraditional studies of the population called “heritage speakers” (HS) have treated this group as distinct from other bilingual populations, e.g., simultaneous or late bilinguals (LB), focusing on group differences in the competencies of the ...
Gita Martohardjono +6 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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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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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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Shrinking Your Deictic System: How Far Can You Go?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Languages around the world differ in terms of the number of adnominal and pronominal demonstratives they require, as well as the factors that impact on their felicitous use.
Mila Vulchanova +3 more
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When teaching works and time helps: Noun modification in L2 English school children
Open Linguistics, 2022 The study focuses on the interaction between length of exposure and instruction in the L2 English acquisition process of L1 Spanish school children. Two target structures involving noun premodification are targeted: noun–noun (NN) compounds and adjective–
Fernández Fuertes Raquel +3 more
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“Is This a Safe Space?”: Examining an Emotionally Charged Eruption in Critical Language Pedagogy
Education Sciences, 2021 Unexpected conflicts, or eruptions, in class during discussions of controversial issues are not uncommon in the field of English language teaching (ELT).
Gordon Blaine West
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