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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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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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Humanisma: Journal of Gender Studies, 2020 Language has long been considered as a territory dominated by women. For example, in the area of interpretation/translation it can be seen that there are more women than men 3 to 1, and when talking about language teaching, there are more female ...
Zikrawahyuni Maiza
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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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Access to Second Language Acquisition
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2017 This paper discusses the different views on the availability of UG principles in language acquisition of adult second language learners, and summarizes some of the evidence for or against each position. One important issue in current language acquisition
Mahmoud H Jabballa
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