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Is Adult Second Language Acquisition Defective? [PDF]
Frontiers 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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Lingua, 2001 In the course of language acquisition, the learner passes through a series of ‘learner varieties,’ which approach successively the linguistic system of the learner's social environment. Children normally succeed in a perfect replication of this system.
Susan M. Gass +4 more
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Frontiers 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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Frontiers 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
Education 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
Research 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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Languages, 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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Second Language Acquisition [PDF]
, 2009 This article reviews neurocognitive evidence on second language (L2) processing at speech sound, word, and sentence levels. Hemodynamic (functional magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography) data suggest that L2s are implemented in the same brain structures as the native language but with quantitative differences in the strength of ...
Indefrey, P., Davidson, D.
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Languages, 2021 Fifty-six Portuguese speakers born and raised in Brazil produced Portuguese words beginning in one of four plosives, /p b k ɡ/. Twenty-eight of them were monolinguals (controls), and the rest were learners of English as a foreign language (EFL).
Denise M. Osborne, Miquel Simonet
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Second Language Transfer During Third Language Acquisition
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2003 A recent focus in the study of cross-linguistic influence is the role of transfer during third language acquisition. How do the learner’s first and second languages influence the acquisition of a third language?
Shirin Murphy
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