Cogent Education, 2023 Language-intensive exposure and immersion can be regarded as key factors in developing proficient language learners. In the context of teaching English as a foreign language (EFL), the current research was conducted to compare two modes of teaching ...
Rania Qassrawi +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Language dominance is a multidimensional construct comprising several distinct yet interrelated components, including language proficiency, exposure and use. The exact relation between these components remains unclear.
Sharon Unsworth +2 more
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Language Development and Acquisition in Early Childhood [PDF]
, 2019 The paper discussed in detail the process of language development and the process of language acquisition in early childhood. It also gave a brief overview of the theoretical frame of reference of language development.
Al-Harbi, S. S. (Salwa)
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Learning on the Field: L2 Turkish Vowel Production by L1 American English-Speaking NGOs in Turkey
Languages, 2022 This study adopts the Speech Learning Model to investigate the first language (L1) influence as well as the effects of the length of residence and second language (L2) exposure on American English-speaking learners of Turkish in their productions of ...
Keryn de Jonge, Olga Maxwell, Helen Zhao
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Reaching out to the other side: Formal-linguistics-based SLA and Socio-SLA [PDF]
, 2013 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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How much exposure to English is necessary for a bilingual toddler to perform like a monolingual peer in language tests? [PDF]
, 2014 Background Bilingual children are under-referred due to an ostensible expectation that they lag behind their monolingual peers in their English acquisition.
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) +76 more
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Adult Language Learning After Minimal Exposure to an Unknown Natural Language [PDF]
Language Learning, 2010 Despite the literature on the role of input in adult second‐language (L2) acquisition and on artificial and statistical language learning, surprisingly little is known about how adults break into a new language in the wild. This article reports on a series of behavioral and neuroimaging studies that examine what linguistic information adults can ...
Gullberg, Marianne +4 more
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Deaf children need language, not (just) speech [PDF]
, 2019 Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) children need to master at least one language (spoken or signed) to reach their full potential. Providing access to a natural sign language supports this goal.
Caselli, Naomi +2 more
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A domain-general monitoring account of language switching in recognition tasks : evidence for adaptive control [PDF]
, 2019 Language switching experience is assumed to have an effect on domain-general control abilities in bilinguals, but previous studies on the relationship between these two variables have generated mixed results. The present study investigated the effects of
Kepinska, Olga +4 more
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Processing of regular and irregular past tense morphology in highly proficient second language learners of English: a self-paced reading study [PDF]
, 2012 Dual-system models suggest that English past tense morphology involves two processing routes: rule application for regular verbs and memory retrieval for irregular verbs (Pinker, 1999).
Marinis, Theodoros, Pliatsikas, Christos
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