comparing L1 and L Chapter4 FirstlanguageAcquisitionandSecondLanguageAcquisition Controversialquestions:1)Dopeopleacquireasecondlanguageinthesamewayastheyacquirethefirstone?2)DoadultsstillhaveaccesstoUniversalGrammar?3)WhyL2learnersareusuallyunsuccessful?. 4.1SimilaritiesbetweenL2learningand...
Uneven Language Acquisition in Mandarin-Learning Preschool Children with ASD: Comparing Vocabulary, Grammar, and Pragmatic Use Via the PCDI-Toddler FormReceptive/Expressive LanguageY. E. SuL. NaiglesL.Y. Su
Understanding the nature of language and communication disorders in High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder (HFASD) populations may provide insight into
Automaticity in bilingualism and second language learning In this chapter, we examine automaticity in light of the role it might play in second language acquisition and in bilingual functioning. We review various theoretical and operational definitions of automaticity, considering their respect... N ...
A Corpus-based Conceptual Clustering Method for Verb Frames and Ontology Acquisition We describe in this paper the ML system, ASIUM, which learns subcategorization frames of verbs and ontologies from syntactic parsing of technical texts in natural language. The restrictions of selection in the subcatego...
To date there has been research on teacher beliefs about first language (L1) use, its functions and its distribution in the interaction, but little on its effect on aspects of learning. Previous research on intentional vocabulary teaching has shown it to be effective, but whether the lexical ...
Exploring Learner Language Through Corpora: Comparing and Interpreting Corpus Frequency Information This article contributes to the debate about the appropriate use of corpus data in language learning research. It focuses on frequencies of linguistic feat... D Gablasova,V Brezina,T Mcenery - 《...
A study of receptive and productive learning from word cards The present study explores the effect of four types of tasks on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) vocabulary acquisition. Four groups of students in their fifth year of Primary Education worked with a list of English words by means...
Anxiety Emotional engagement EFL learners Online and offline class Chinese university Psychological well-being 1. Introduction The advent of technology has brought fundamental changes to English language teaching (Chapelle, 2003). Various forms of technology-supported learning and B43teaching, like MOOCs, ...
Even after six decades of international student assessments, we only weakly understand how and why educational systems are changing in the long run. One reason is the diversity of studies differing in design, sampling, conceptualization (e.g., research c