Spanish as a second language
Ilha Desterro vol.70 número3
... Finally, most research on L2 accent has studied populations of speakers who have acquired the L2 primarily as a result of immersion where the L2 is spoken (e.g., MacKay, Flege, & Imai, 2006; Munro & Derwing, ...
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Second language education context and home language effect: language dissimilarities and variation in immigrant students’ outcomes.
... to language structures that rely on other grammar criteria such as word order be ...and Spanish)? Syntactically dominant cues in English are different from rules and case marking in other Indo-European and ...
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Animated cartoon humor in second language learning
... global language” has progressively become more ...the language to younger generations, one must also focus on the type of education the masses are obtaining – both in private or public ...Chinese, ...
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The Teaching and Assessment in Second-Language Context: Assessment of Decoding Differences on Language Speakers.
... immigrant second generation tied on low income families looking for new job conditions in European ...to second generation success between school accomplishment and job ...such Spanish speaking ...
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Speech Processing and Intelligent Assessment in Second Language: Struggling Immigrant Students and Home Language Parallel Instruction.
... a second language (ESL) there are several measures previously tested in large-scale contexts (with large sample sizes), whereas for languages such as Portuguese or Iranian as second languages, the ...
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E-learning practices in translation and interpretation: corpora as training platforms
... 2. 1. Go to the English Language Interview Corpus as a Second-Language Application (ELISA). For watching the video files, it is necessary to download free RealPlayer. Scroll down the page and find ...
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Review of "Applying Cognitive Linguistics to Second Language Learning and Teaching"
... first language (L1) jar with those of a target ...the language classroom but when we utter certain Spanish idioms – No le pidas peras al olmo, ¿Qué tiene que ver el tocino con la velocidad? – what is ...
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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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Critical language teaching in a dynamic language policy terrain: lessons from the Brazilian Science without Borders student mobility programme
... English language study and academic preparation at the language centre in a large public university in a major Canadian metropolitan ...the language centre, including the two instructors of the ...
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Rev. bras. linguist. apl. vol.15 número3
... The feedback approach employed by teachers in some classrooms seemed to the learners to be judgmental and non-formative in nature (DÖRNYEI, 1994). The feedback on participants’ irst writing tasks was a critical event for ...
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Rev. bras. linguist. apl. vol.13 número2
... It is worth to mention that other occurrences of deviations happened in several moments of the interaction, as well as negotiations for meaning, in addition to those presented here. However, these data were chosen in ...
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Conversational competence in english as a second language : a study of pragmatic markers
... a language institute in the South of Brazil between the second semester of 2012 and the second semenster of ...of language so as to have their speaking ability assessed in four analytical ...
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Cross-cultural adaptation of Preschool Language Assessment Instrument: Second Edition
... spoken language in preschool-aged children, the second version of the Preschool Language Assessment Instrument (PLAI-2) is a test that investigates important aspects of the early communicative ...
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Textual and language flaws: problems for Spanish doctors in producing abstracts in English
... by Spanish speaking doctors from three leading Spanish journals on internal ...their language use flaws under two broad categories: ortho-typographic and ...of language, over 70% presented ...
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Learning Portuguese as a Second Language.
... schools the protagonists in controlling differences in academic performance and cognitive development of their new generation of students (Borgna & Contini, 2014; Entorf & Minoiu, 2005). As protagonists, schools ...
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Cognitive differences in second language learners and the critical period effects.
... first language transference will be discussed, regard- ing particularly the results from some of the tests: alphabetic ordinance, phonemic blending, alliteration judgement and dichotic hearing The achievement ...
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EVIDENCE OF INNATE MECHANISMS IN FIRST, SECOND AND SUBSEQUENT LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
... first language without being exposed to sufficient ...late second and third language acquisition, which also explains the knowledge manifested by L2 or L3 learners, who despite having not been ...
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Teaching Culture in the English as a Second Language Class: is it Possible?
... of language use of the students ...English language current events blog that discussed Brazilians’ and Americans’ differing cultural perspectives on time, a student was slightly offended at an existent ...
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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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U ok w dis? Analysing language attitudes towards internet english
... internet language among scholars and, especially, ...the language and create illiterate students that will, consequently, grow into an illiterate new ...written language may end up as a series of ...
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