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Writing in Creole Contexts: A Study of Jamaican Primary School Students

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.
This study explored the nature and challenges of English writing among primary school learners who speak Jamaican Creole as their home and dominant language. Abstract Creole‐speaking contexts are significantly underrepresented in language and literacy research yet present a unique context for understanding the nature of language and literacy ...
Shawna‐Kaye D. Tucker, Hamish Chalmers, Victoria A. Murphy   +2 more
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L2 discourse marker use in interaction: The case of pues in Spanish

Foreign Language Annals, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 1072-1093, Winter 2024.
Abstract While discourse markers (DMs) are crucial for coherence and interactional competence, previous research suggests that learners' usage of DMs differs from L1 speakers. Prior research has taken either a discourse‐functional or interactional approach, yet combining these two methods may provide greater understanding of the unique learner ...
Sydney Dickerson, Lori Czerwionka
wiley   +1 more source

Cross-linguistic semantic transfer in bilingual Chinese-English speakers [PDF]

, 2017
The semantic structure of animal and emotion terms was here under investigation. In Study one, Chinese ‐ English bilinguals and monolingual English and Chinese speakers provided similarity judgments.
Agnieszka Ewa Tytus, Tytus, Agnieszka Ewa, Rundblad, Gabriella, Gabriella Rundblad   +3 more
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First and second language use in an early total one‐way Chinese immersion classroom

The Modern Language Journal, Volume 108, Issue 4, Page 888-909, Winter 2024.
Abstract Chinese immersion programs have been increasingly popular in US schools. However, we have insufficient data on young English‐speaking children's acquisition of Chinese as a second language in these programs, and specifically on social contextual variables systematically promoting or hindering Chinese language use.
Mengying Liu, Elaine Tarone
wiley   +1 more source

Interlanguage, Simplified English and Two-Word Structures

, 2022
English is widely used as a Second Language. Papua New Guinea (PNG) in the 1990s (during my residence) had a population of approximately 4 million people who used slightly more than 800 languages.
Ford, Kevin
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SOME ASPECTS OF TEACHING THE KAZAKH LANGUAGE IN THE RUSSIAN-SPEAKING AUDIENCE

Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2015
This article analyzes the typical errors of speech activity of students in the Kazakh language, arising from the interfering influence of the native (Russian) language before learning a foreign language. Interlanguage interference, an attribute of speech
A A Gadzhieva
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The role of individual differences in second language pragmatics: A systematic review

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 34, Issue 4, Page 1316-1334, November 2024.
Abstract The current systematic review aims to understand the role of individual differences (IDs) in second language (L2) pragmatics and offer recommendations for further research in this domain. To achieve this, 86 empirical studies in L2 pragmatics published in SSCI (Social Science Citation Index) journals from 2000 to 2023 were systematically ...
Lan Zhang, Scott Aubrey
wiley   +1 more source

L2 learners' knowledge of verb form-function relationships at different stages in the acquisition of English as a second language : a study of college learners' interlanguage in Zaire. [PDF]

, 1991
Available from British Library Document Supply Centre- DSC:D97832 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited ...
Mayala, Nsebang-Kimanese, Mayala, N
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What type of noticing occurs in the first 6 months of learning a foreign language? A case of an absolute beginner of Turkish

Foreign Language Annals, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 818-843, Fall 2024.
Abstract The concept of noticing, which emphasizes the role of attention and awareness in language learning, has exerted a strong influence on second language acquisition (SLA) theory and practice. The current research analyzes instances of noticing evident across a 26‐week period as the first author, an absolute beginner, was taught Turkish by the ...
Joshua Matthews, Devrim Yilmaz
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English Language Variants Used by Non-Native Users and their Distinctive Features

, 2023
The study addresses the notion of a variant language as a non-native one. In terms of English as a language of global spread, such a variant appears as an exonormative idiom of the Expanding Circle, according to B.
Yakubova, Madina
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