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Second Language Acquisition

2006
Language acquisition and second (or more) language learning cover quite large academic and practical areas of research and application. We cannot begin to discuss these areas, but only comment in a very limited way as to whether the model incorporating the idea of static and dynamic planes (Chapter 6) might be useful.
Mark Tatham, Katherine Morton
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Acquisition of second language intonation

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000), 2000
Foreign accents in second language (L2) production are caused by the phonological system and phonetic realization of the first language (L1), including both segmental and prosodic features. This paper examines the intonation structure of Seoul Korean and its realization by American English speakers. Four English speakers of Korean, differing in fluency,
Mira Oh, Sun-Ah Jun
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Second language acquisition and CS1

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 2001
This paper presents an empirical study of the relative effectiveness of two teaching methods used in CS1 classrooms. While the teaching methods are nothing new, the results of the study are an important contribution to the body of computer science education literature.
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The Ecology of Second Language Acquisition and Socialization

2017
Various theories of second language acquisition (SLA) and socialization (SLS) have adopted ecology as a convenient metaphor to promote sociocultural (van Lier 2004) or sociocognitive (Atkinson 2011) approaches to the study of SLA, and socioethnographic approaches (Duff 2011; Duff and Talmy 2011) to the study of SLS.
Steffensen, Sune, Kramsch, Claire
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Generative Second Language Acquisition

2020
Most human beings grow up speaking more than one language; a lot of us also acquire an additional language or languages other than our mother tongue. This Element in the Second Language Acquisition series investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages later in life and introduces the seminal processes involved in this acquisition.
Slabakova, Roumyana, Leal, Tania, Dudley, Amber, Stack, Micah   +3 more
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Second-Language Acquisition

2013
AbstractThis article begins with an overview of Arabic second-language acquisition (SLA) research. It discusses some SLA theories; the distancing of SLA research and theory from the traditional applied linguistics fields of methodology and teacher training; and major issues in current Arabic SLA research, which center on the development of skills in ...
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APTITUDE AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2005
Recent second language acquisition (SLA) research into the cognitive abilities implicated in implicit, incidental, and explicit learning, and in learning and performance on tasks differing in their information processing demands has prompted new theoretical frameworks for conceptualizing L2 aptitude. This research is reviewed and related to measures of
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The acquisition of second language writing

2013
This chapter reviews what is known about the acquisition of written language by examining studies from both L2 acquisition and L2 writing pedagogy. I will focus here on the language used by learners as they learn to write in their L2. Thus, the scope of the chapter will be limited to linguistic issues such as accuracy, complexity, the lexicon, and, to ...
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Introducing Second Language Acquisition

2005
Written for students encountering the topic for the first time, this is a clear and practical introduction to second language acquisition (SLA). Using non-technical language, it explains how a second language is acquired; what the learner of a second language needs to know; and why some learners are more successful than others.
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Second Language Reading Acquisition

2015
Literacy is a lifelong, context-bound set of practices that can vary with time, place, and an individual's needs. One can thus speak of multiple literacies and the importance of language policies that foster cultural diversity. Research has also shown the functional literacy practices via which individuals are socialized into various institutions to ...
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