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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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Emotional Education as second language acquisition? [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Emotional Education, 2010
In this paper we argue that while emotional education intervention packages offer certain advantages, there are risks associated with their uncritical use.
Gale Macleod   +2 more
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Age of second language acquisition affects nonverbal conflict processing in children: an fMRI study. [PDF]

open access: yesBrain Behav, 2014
Background: In their daily communication, bilinguals switch between two languages, a process that involves the selection of a target language and minimization of interference from a nontarget language. Previous studies have uncovered the neural structure
Mohades SG   +5 more
europepmc   +3 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
doaj   +1 more source

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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Foreign-Language Phonetic Development Leads to First-Language Phonetic Drift: Plosive Consonants in Native Portuguese Speakers Learning English as a Foreign Language in Brazil

open access: yesLanguages, 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
doaj   +1 more source

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