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Key terms in second language acquisition
, 2015 The new edition of Key Terms in Second Language Acquisition defines the key terminology within second language acquisition, and also provides accessible summaries of the key issues within this complex area of study.
VanPatten, Bill, Benati, Alessandro G.
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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 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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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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PROCESSABILITY IN SCANDINAVIAN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION [PDF]
Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2001 This paper reports on a test of the validity of Pienemann's (1998) Processability Theory (PT). This theory predicts that certain morphological and syntactic phenomena are acquired in a fixed sequence. Three phenomena were chosen for this study: attributive adjective morphology, predicative adjective morphology, and subordinate clause syntax (placement ...
Glahn, Esther +5 more
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Is noticing an answer to the problem of unacquirable structures in the second language?
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2002 The aim of this article is to evaluate one proposed solution to the problem that some aspects of a second language (L2) seem unacquirable. In order to understand the solution, it is necessary to explicate the problem.
Southwood, Frenette
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FACTORS INFLUENCING SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Englisia, 2014 Motivation, attitude, age, intelligence, aptitude, cognitive style, and personality are considered as factors that greatly influence someone in the process of his or her second language acquisition.
Siti Khasinah
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