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Is Adult Second Language Acquisition Defective? [PDF]
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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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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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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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
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
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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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 Modeling [PDF]
We present the task of second language acquisition (SLA) modeling. Given a history of errors made by learners of a second language, the task is to predict errors that they are likely to make at arbitrary points in the future. We describe a large corpus of more than 7M words produced by more than 6k learners of English, Spanish, and French using ...
Burr Settles +4 more
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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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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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