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Long-term relationships among early first language skills, second language aptitude, second language affect, and later second language proficiency

Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
ABSTRACTFifty-four students were followed over 10 years beginning in first grade to determine best predictors of oral and written second language (L2) proficiency. Predictor variables included measures of first language (L1) skill administered in first through fifth grades, L1 academic aptitude, L2 aptitude (Modern Language Aptitude Test), and L2 ...
Richard Sparks, Jon Patton, Leonore Ganschow, Nancy Humbach   +3 more
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Languaging: Collaborative Dialogue as a Source of Second Language Learning

The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, 2019
A theoretical claim is that languaging is a source of second language (L2) learning (Swain, 2006, 2010). Keywords: second language acquisition; teaching methods in applied linguistics; sociocultural language ...
M. Swain, Yuko Watanabe
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Second Language Phonetics

2018
The study of second language phonetics is concerned with three broad and overlapping research areas: the characteristics of second language speech production and perception, the consequences of perceiving and producing nonnative speech sounds with a foreign accent, and the causes and factors that shape second language phonetics.
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An Introduction to Second Language Acquisition

What English Language Teachers Need to Know Volume I, 2019
The following is a pedagogical guide to provide Assistant Language Teachers (ALTs) with a general blueprint that will assist them in their planning and designing of lessons and curriculum in the Japanese High School and Junior High School. The purpose of
D. Murray, M. Christison
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Second Language Acquisition

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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Using ChatGPT for second language writing: Pitfalls and potentials

Assessing Writing: An International Journal, 2023
J. Barrot
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Second language writing online: An update.

Language Learning & Technology, 2018
I last wrote an overview of developments in second language (L2) online writing 10 years ago (Godwin-Jones, 2008). Since that time, there have been significant developments in this area.
Robert Godwin-Jones
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Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

, 1998
W.C. Ritchie and T.K. Bhatia, Second Language Acquisition: Introduction, Foundations, and Overview. Research and Theoretical Issues in Second Language Acquisition: K.R. Gregg, The Logical and Developmental Problems of Second Language Acquisition.
W. C. Ritchie, T. Bhatia
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Language prediction in second language

2021
Abstract It is currently accepted that native speakers regularly predict upcoming elements during language comprehension. Empirical evidence suggests that the ability to predict is not as stable in a second language (L2) compared to the first language (L1). One factor that may affect prediction in an L2 is cross-linguistic influence (CLI).
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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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