second language learners
Assessment effectiveness for second language learners: predictors, reliability and discriminant profiles
... of second language (SL) is still full of contradictions and incomplete frameworks to explain affective and motivational processes involved in new languages learning, as well predictive variables for ...
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Cognitive differences in second language learners and the critical period effects.
... of language (phonology, morphology, and syntax) and not on the processing of meaning” (Newport, 2002, ...a language, through an incidental acquisition conditioned by a favorable input; phono- logical ...
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Decoding behaviour and phonetic constraints in second language learners: new insight for the structuralism perspective
... In a comparative glance, we can say that the outflow of Portuguese nationals for the purpose of highly skilled work has historically not been very relevant, but that it has been increasing over the years. The increased ...
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Learning styles and cognitive achievement: the case of second language learners.
... * Age factor has great influence just in the context of native and monolingual subjects, for language learning. However, we must consider that the scale has an index of compromising fidelity (alpha .60), compared ...
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The Teaching and Assessment in Second-Language Context: Assessment of Decoding Differences on Language Speakers.
... The language assessment in second language context is still a gap in Portuguese schools and at research ...in second language ...Portuguese Second Language context, our ...
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Second Language Aaquisition and Mobile-Assisted Language Learning: Educators' Perspectives on Identity and Practice.
... The second section, "SLA and MALL", presents the results used to answer the research question "What are SLA educators' perceptions towards mobile devices and its use for language ...
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Language Learners Perceptions and Experiences on the Use of Mobile Applications for Independent Language Learning in Higher Education
... of language learning in a mobile technologies ...for language exposure outside the class to ensure language acquisition (Kennedy and Levy ...foreign language mastery. Secondly, we should not ...
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Early reading skills in low socioeconomic status at risk english language learners: effects of multisensory structured language intervention
... all learners carry, ELLs present linguistic and cultural differences in relation to monolingual learners, and these distinctions influence ELLs’ language and literacy development when children learn ...
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Cross-cultural adaptation of Preschool Language Assessment Instrument: Second Edition
... Purpose: In Brazil, formal tools for the evaluation of spoken language are scarce. Therefore, this study aimed to translate and adapt to Brazilian Portuguese the Preschool Language Assessment Instrument: ...
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The Bilingual Brain: Human Evolution and Second Language Acquisition
... to language to achieve fluency, and the opportunity for that is universally available in human ...a second language in ...a second language in adulthood with the same degree of rapidity ...
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Second language acquisition in Brazil since the social turn
... the language and identity approach to SLA are that the individual must be understood as integrated to the larger social world, and that relations of power “affect learners’ access to the target ...
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Personality, motivation, and language attitudes of learners of CTLs and LCTLs
... FLs are usually categorized as Commonly Taught Languages (CTLs) and Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs). While definitions vary, LCTLs in the United States typically encompass low- enrollment and infrequently taught ...
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Teaching Sociolinguistics: A Medium for Cultural Awareness of Indonesian University Foreign Language Learners
... Learning language does not only involve knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, phonology but also the understanding of specific features and characteristics of ...international language and it means that ...
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Conversational competence in english as a second language : a study of pragmatic markers
... Brown and Yule (1983, pp. 4-5) compare the different demands spoken and written language make on language producers. Although communicative messages can be aided by paralinguistic features such as facial ...
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The Impact of Bilingualism on Acquiring Second Language Vocabulary: A Case Study
... same language is already bilingual (if it is so then at least 99% of the inhabitants of the British Isles are bilinguals since it is possible to imagine they can speak both British English and American ...same ...
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Can learners be motivated to speak a foreign language through the use of games?
... According to Richard-Amato (1996), Games are often associated with fun. While it is true that games are usually fun, one must not lose sight of their pedagogical value, particularly in second language ...
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Review of "Applying Cognitive Linguistics to Second Language Learning and Teaching"
... to Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Second Language Teaching (SLT) and Second Language Learning (SLL), and if relevant, how they can get into the ...
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The development of oral skills in foreign language learners through information gap exercises
... target language, using their personal interests as a form of motivation, trying to link the language learning in the classroom with its activation beyond ...target language and willingness to ...
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EVIDENCE OF INNATE MECHANISMS IN FIRST, SECOND AND SUBSEQUENT LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
... third language, Flynn (2009) conducted a study with L1 Kazakh and L2 Russian speakers, with focus on the acquisition of relative clauses in English as an ...Turkish language, whose word order is primarily ...
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Second Language Writing System Word Recognition (with a focus on Lao)
... a second language (L2) with a script different from the learner’s first language (L1) presents unique challenges for both stu- dent and ...of second language writing system (L2WS) ...
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