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Is Adult Second Language Acquisition Defective? [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
There is a large literature showing that adult L2 learners, in contrast to children, often fail to acquire native-like competence in the second language.
Ewa Dąbrowska   +3 more
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Positioning an Agenda on a Loving Pedagogy in Second Language Acquisition: Conceptualization, Practice, and Research. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychol, 2022
Second/foreign language teaching has been found as one of the most emotional professions worldwide. To generate optimal academic outcomes and run an effective education, teachers and students’ emotions and feelings must be positively cared for. Given the
Wang Y, Derakhshan A, Pan Z.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Influence of Vocalized Reading Practice on English Learning and Psychological Problems of Middle School Students

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
The purpose of this study is to improve the English learning anxiety and learning effect for middle school students. From the perspective of educational psychology, the influence of vocalized reading practice on the English learning of students is ...
Hongyan Zhang, Xianghua Han
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Use of the first-acquired language modulates pupil size in the processing of island constraint violations

open access: yesFrontiers 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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“Is This a Safe Space?”: Examining an Emotionally Charged Eruption in Critical Language Pedagogy

open access: yesEducation 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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Learning experience design for augmented reality

open access: yesResearch in Learning Technology, 2021
Recent years have seen a growing interest in augmented reality (AR) technologies due to their potential for simulating real-life situations and creating authentic learning tasks.
Betül Czerkawski, Margherita Berti
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Plasticity, Variability and Age in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychol, 2018
Much of what is known about the outcome of second language acquisition and bilingualism can be summarized in terms of inter-individual variability, plasticity and age.
Birdsong D.
europepmc   +2 more sources

The Perception of Postalveolar English Obstruents by Spanish Speakers Learning English as a Foreign Language in Mexico

open access: yesLanguages, 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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