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Bridging the Gap Between Second Language Acquisition Research and Memory Science: The Case of Foreign Language Attrition. [PDF]
Front Hum Neurosci, 2019 The field of second language acquisition (SLA) is by nature of its subject a highly interdisciplinary area of research. Learning a (foreign) language, for example, involves encoding new words, consolidating and committing them to long-term memory, and ...
Mickan A, McQueen JM, Lemhöfer K.
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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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Introductory Article: French in Second Language Acquisition Research
Languages, 2021 Emerging in the late 1960s and early 1970s with the ground-breaking work of Stephen Pit Corder, followed by Larry Selinker’s (1972) conceptualisation of ‘interlanguage’, second language acquisition (SLA) has developed into a highly buoyant independent ...
Martin Howard
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Sign languages and second language acquisition research: An introduction
Journal of the European Second Language Association, 2021 In recent years there has been a growing interest in sign second language acquisition (SSLA). However, research in this area is sparse. As signed and spoken languages are expressed in different modalities, there is a great potential for broadening our ...
Krister Schönström
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The Interface between Second Language Acquisition Research and Second Language Pedagogy: Iranian EFL Teachers' Perspectives [PDF]
Teaching English Language, 2016 Despite the existence of a vast growing literature on second language acquisition (SLA) research and a heated debate among second language (L2) researchers about the applicability of research to practice, there is scanty empirical evidence in this area ...
Mohammad Karimi, Hassan Nejadghanbar
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Social Values of Second Language Acquisition Research
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2019 This forum is dedicated to the discussion on the social values of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research and is motivated by talks organized in the Fall of 2018 by Columbia University, Teachers College Center for International Foreign Language ...
Peter Kim
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A Comprehensive Analysis of Research Motivation in Second Language Learning in The Past Ten Years
Mandarinable, 2023 In the past ten years, academic research on second language motivation has been very fruitful, and the number of published studies in this field far exceeds the characteristics of other language learners.
Chen Wenjing
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How to study second language acquisition: a cross-sectional method
Taikomoji kalbotyra, 2015 This paper describes a cross-sectional method, which is employed when conducting research on acquisition of Lithuanian as a second language. This is one of the most optimal methods to study the process of language acquisition in adults, since it does not
Jogilė Teresa Ramonaitė
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The Role of Theory in Empirical Second Language Acquisition Research: An Introduction
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2021 Theory plays a central role in the development of human knowledge. In essence, theory solves puzzles, or questions about observable phenomena that need to be answered, (Kuhn, 1996). Theorizing about solutions to these puzzles requires working at the edge
Ashley Beccia, Paige Yi
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Predicting Native Language from Gaze [PDF]
, 2017 A fundamental question in language learning concerns the role of a speaker's first language in second language acquisition. We present a novel methodology for studying this question: analysis of eye-movement patterns in second language reading of free ...
Berzak, Yevgeni +3 more
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