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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 When analyzing complex longitudinal data, especially data from different educational settings, researchers generally focus only on the mean part (i.e., the regression coefficients), ignoring the equally important random part (i.e., the random effect ...
Oi-Man Kwok +12 more
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Language Acquisition: Seeing through Wittgenstein [PDF]
, 2018 This paper aims to exemplify the language acquisition model by tracing back to the Socratic model of language learning procedure that sets down inborn knowledge, a kind of implicit knowledge that becomes explicit in our language.
Chakraborty, Sanjit
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Data, 2019 We sought to quantify the effectiveness of a gifted and talented (GT) program, as was provided to university students who demonstrated a talent for learning English as a foreign language (EFL) in China.
Shifang Tang, Fuhui Tong, Xiuhong Lu
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Laryngeal stop systems in contact: connecting present-day acquisition findings and historical contact hypotheses [PDF]
, 2011 This article examines the linguistic forces at work in present-day second language and bilingual acquisition of laryngeal contrasts, and to what extent these can give us insight into the origin of laryngeal systems of Germanic voicing languages like ...
Simon, Ellen
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Language Acquisition Meets Language Evolution [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 2010 AbstractRecent research suggests that language evolution is a process of cultural change, in which linguistic structures are shaped through repeated cycles of learning and use by domain‐general mechanisms. This paper draws out the implications of this viewpoint for understanding the problem of language acquisition, which is cast in a new, and much more
Morten H. Christiansen +2 more
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, 1986 This 1986 textbook presents an account of the main concerns, problems and theoretical and practical issues raised by second language acquisition research. Research in this field had been mainly pedagogically oriented, but since the 1970s linguists and psychologists have become increasingly interested in the principles that underlie second language ...
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Usage-based and emergentist approaches to language acquisition [PDF]
, 2009 It was long considered to be impossible to learn grammar based on linguistic experience alone. In the past decade, however, advances in usage-based linguistic theory, computational linguistics, and developmental psychology changed the view on this matter.
Behrens Heike +8 more
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Data in Brief, 2020 This dataset belongs to a large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT) in educational research targeting English learning students and their teachers' instructional capacity.
Fuhui Tong +4 more
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THE CHILD AND THE WORLD: How Children acquire Language [PDF]
, 2005 HOW CHILDREN ACQUIRE LANGUAGE Over the last few decades research into child language acquisition has been revolutionized by the use of ingenious new techniques which allow one to investigate what in fact infants (that is children not yet able to speak)
Allott, Robin
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, 2018 In this paper, we will develop some aspects of a psycholinguistic theory that tries to explain how our natural language is acquired. We have divided this paper into three parts: First part: includes a brief review of different theories on language acquisition that are valid today, used as a contrast element.
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