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IWASAKI, Junko, and junkoi@student ecu edu au. "The acquisition of Japanese as a second language and Processability Theory: A longitudinal study of a naturalistic child learner." Edith Cowan University. Community Services, Education And Social Sciences: School Of International, Cultural And Community Studies, 2006. http://adt.ecu.edu.au/adt-public/adt-ECU2006.0022.html.

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The aim of this study was to investigate longitudinally how a child learner acquired verbal morpho-syntax in Japanese in a naturalistic second language (L2) context. Specifically the points of emergence for three verbal morpho-syntactic structures, namely verbal inflection, the V-te V structure and the passive/causative structure, were investigated within a framework of Processability Theory (PT) (Pienemann, 1998b). The subsequent development of these structures was also examined. Unlike earlier research about morpheme orders and developmental sequences in language acquisition which was critic

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Iwasaki, Junko. "The Acquisition of Japanese as a Second Language and Processability Theory: A Longitudinal Study of a Naturalistic Child Learner." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2006. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/73.

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The aim of this study was to investigate longitudinally how a child learner acquired verbal morpho-syntax in Japanese in a naturalistic second language (L2) context. Specifically the points of emergence for three verbal morpho-syntactic structures, namely verbal inflection, the V-te V structure and the passive/causative structure, were investigated within a framework of Processability Theory (PT) (Pienemann, 1998b). The subsequent development of these structures was also examined. Unlike earlier research about morpheme orders and developmental sequences in language acquisition which was critic

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Chan, Cecilia Yuet Hung. "The aquisition of restrictive relative clauses by Chinese L1 learners of L2 English." Thesis, University of Essex, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282526.

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Noe, Kelly Dawn. "Incidental lexical acquisition and the modification of glosses in intermediate Spanish." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1091560569.

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Grondin, Nathalie D. "Functional projections in child second language acquisition of French." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61279.

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Recently, there has been growing interest in the status of functional projections (i.e. the determiner phrase (DP), the inflectional phrase (IP), and the complementizer phrase (CP)) in first language (L1) development.<br>The purpose of this study of child second language (L2) acquisition was to determine the status of functional projections in the first months of L2 development. Data from two child subjects (with English as their L1) acquiring French as an L2 were examined for evidence of DP, IP and CP. The results show that all functional projections are present in the grammar from the earlie

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Current, Daniel C. "Language Learning Through Contextual Input in a Virtual Reality Enviroment." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1341613840.

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Jin, Jongdo. "Child second language acquisition : acquisition of English functional categories by Korean child L2 learners." Thesis, University of Reading, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.422776.

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Haznedar, Belma. "Child second language acquisition of English : a longitudinal case study of a Turkish-speaking child." Thesis, Durham University, 1997. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1634/.

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Park, Hyeson. "Child second language acquisition and grammatical theories: The Minimalist Program and optimality theory." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/252897.

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The aim of linguistic theory is to explain what knowledge of language consists of and how this knowledge is acquired. Generative linguistics, which had set out to achieve this goal, has recently seen the development of two main approaches to Universal Grammar (UG). One is the Minimalist Program (MP) and the other is Optimality Theory (OT). In the MP framework, language is claimed to be acquired through parameter setting, while in OT language acquisition is viewed as a constraint reranking process. In this study, I compare the two evolving linguistic theories in relation to child L2 acquisition

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McEleney, Sarah Nicole. "La influencia del conocimiento de otras lenguas en la identificación de palabras en español L2 un estudio de los modelos bia y bia+ /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1248105154.

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Horner, David. "On the aquisition of grammar and meaning in instructed second language learning : a case study of the development of past verb forms by adult French learners of English as a foreign language." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1994. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10021533/.

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A corpus of written English produced by three groups of adult French beginning learners of English as a foreign language over a period of approximately eight months was examined for evidence relating to the acquisition of past tense forms and related meanings. The findings provide evidence to support several hypotheses which can be usefully grouped within a single framework which sees language acquisition as a process of hypothesis formation and testing whose constraints are both first and second language in origin. These hypotheses can be summarised as follows: (1) Language learning involves

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Van, der Merwe Kristin Catherine. "The comprehension of figurative language by Afrikaans-speaking children with and without specific language impairment and by child second language speakers of Afrikaans." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/21912.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2008.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Children experiencing language disorders have often been noted to have difficulty in comprehending figurative language, to a greater or lesser degree. The present study examined and compared the comprehension of figurative language, namely idioms and similes, in three groups of boys between the ages of 8 and 10. These three groups included (i) typically developing Afrikaans first language speakers, (ii) typically developing Afrikaans second language speakers (L2) and (iii) Afrikaans first language speakers with specific language

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Rocca, Sonia. "Child second language acquisition of tense-aspect morphology : a bi-directional study of English and Italian." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25128.

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The present thesis reports on the acquisition of tense-aspect morphology in three L1 Italian children learning L2 English and three L1 English children learning L2 Italian. The children, aged between seven and nine years, were observed in their home environment for a period of six months at approximately two-week intervals. The tense-aspects forms considered are the simple past and the progressive for English, the <i>passato prossimo </i>(i.e. present perfect) and the <i>imperfetto </i>(i.e. imperfect) for Italian. A typological analysis of these forms indicates that their interaction with lex

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Clayton, Christina Dick. "The Effect of Parent English Literacy Training on Student Achievement." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4973/.

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When the Bush administration set out to revolutionize public education through the requirements commanded by No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), framers of the legislation chose language that appeared inclusive of all students in U.S. schools. The law demands that English language learners take the mandated exams early in their academic careers in the United States even though research indicates most will fail due to lack of time to acquire sufficient language proficiently to demonstrate their learning on the exams. Viewed through a critical theory lens, the inclusive nature of NCLB is

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McEleney, Sarah Nicole. "La influencia del conocimiento de otras lenguas en la identificación de palabras en español L2: Un estudio de los modelos BIA y BIA+." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1248105154.

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Parrilla, Larissa Karina. "Multimedia Technologies' Influence on Language Acquisition in English Language Learners." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2682.

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English as a Second Language (ESL) learners at the upper elementary level have struggled to demonstrate the vocabulary required to read in English at grade-level. Although multimedia technologies have demonstrated positive effects as language acquisition educational tools at the university level, it remains unclear how useful they are for language acquisition at the elementary level. This quasi-experimental study used dual coding theory as a framework to examine the relationship between the level of reading comprehension upper elementary students developed and their construction of word meanin

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Ku, Wei. "Acquisition of the syntax and interpretation of Chinese null arguments : an investigation of child and adult second language and native language development." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/5216/.

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Ibaraki, Ursula H. "Understanding and being understood negotiation in English and Japanese native and nonnative child interaction /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/22637.

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Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Linguistics & Psychology, Department of Linguistics, 2007.<br>Bibliography: 269-288.<br>Introduction -- Literature review -- Methodology/theoretical considerations -- Negotiation as a choice -- Initiating negotiation sequences -- The response and final turns in negotiation sequences -- Repetition in negotiation of understanding -- Management of talk through pauses -- Observations and conclusion.<br>The role of negotiation has been investigated in the field of second language acquisition for over twenty years, however, limited attention has been g

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Wistrand, Ida. "Analysis of the English language produced by a Swedish 4-year-old child in the light of the innatist perspective : A case study." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-84410.

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This is a case study that focuses on the oral proficiency in English manifested by the 4-year-old sonof the author. He speaks Swedish as his L1 like his both parents but has been exposed to Englishsince he was one year old from using a tablet. The child’s spoken production was recorded andtranscribed with a focus on the plural-forms and the genitive. An important field that this case studyis motivated by is how child language development may be connected to the concept of innatism,that language is based on innate principles (Lightbown & Spada, 2013:20) as it has been found that anumber of

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Stölten, Katrin. "The Effects of Age of Onset on VOT in L2 Aquisition and L1 Attrition : A Study of the Speech Production and Perception of Advanced Spanish-Swedish Bilinguals." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-94887.

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This thesis explores the role of age in second language (L2) acquisition and first language (L1) attrition. The focus is on Voice Onset Time (VOT) in the production and categorical perception of word-initial L1 and L2 stops in highly advanced L1 Spanish learners of L2 Swedish. Using as the point of departure a maturational constraints perspective and the Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH), Study I examines the impact of age of onset (AO) of L2 acquisition on the production of L2 Swedish voiceless stops. The results show that there are AO effects even in the speech of highly advanced L2 learners

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Kuo, Li-Hui. "Improving Implicit Learning and Explicit Instruction of Adult and Child Learners of Chinese." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3635.

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This study explored the main effects and interaction effects of implicit learning and explicit instructional approaches on the language acquisition of beginning adult and child learners of Chinese and analyzed the successful adult and child learners' learning styles in their information processing time, second language acquisition techniques, and cognitive strategies. Volunteers from Brigham Young University and Wasatch Elementary School were randomly assigned to either an Explicit Instruction Treatment (EIT) or an Implicit Learning Treatment (ILT). Following the treatment, the participants co

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Pladevall, Ballester Elisabet. "Child and Adult Non-Native Subject Development: A Bi-directional Study of English and Spanish as L2s." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/4912.

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Aquesta tesi explora l'adquisició no-nativa de les propietats del subjecte gramatical en l'anglès i el castellà de nens i adults castellanoparlants i angloparlants, els quals no resideixen en el país de la L2, i contribueix així a la recerca en aquest camp amb noves dades i descobriments.En un enfocament teòric generativista cap a la L2, els efectes de la GU en el desenvolupament no-natiu del subjecte en nens i adults, l'existència d'efectes de transferència de la L1 i el "cluster" de propietats del tradicional Paràmetre del Subjecte Nul romanen sense resoldre's is han de ser analitzats d'acor

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Long, Kelsey B., Kelsey C. Rookstool, Lauren P. Driggers-Jones, and Wallace Jr Dixon. "Effects of Birth Order on Temperament and Language." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/asrf/2018/schedule/210.

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Previous research has shown temperament to be stable throughout development and this effect remains when controlling for infant birth order. However, to our knowledge, there have been no investigations examining the direct relationship between temperament characteristics and birth order within the family. Because infant temperament has been shown to be related to maternal stress during pregnancy it stands to reason that mothers caring for multiple children while pregnant will experience more stress, and thus affect the temperament of their gestating offspring. Therefore, the first aim of the p

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Onorato, Patricia G. "Investigating the Effects of a Parent-Mediated Intervention on Latino Parent-Child Verbal Interaction and Children's Receptive Vocabulary." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4600.

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This study aimed to investigate parent-child verbal interactions in Spanish in a group of Latino preschoolers growing up in the United States through a parent-mediated program at home, and the effects of the program on their receptive vocabulary in Spanish. A single subject multiple baseline across participants design was used in the study. The participants were 3 Latino mothers and their sons, with low family income, living in the United States. The intervention taught the mothers strategies to enhance their children’s language through a sharing-book activity. The study lasted for 6 weeks dur

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Mendoza, Guillermo I. "Exploring Gesturing as a Natural Approach to Impact Stages of Second Language Development: A Multiple Baseline, Single Case Study of a Head Start Child." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3121.

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There is an increase in Hispanic English Language Learners (ELL). Poverty levels and lack of teacher training can also be stacked against the ELL population. Gesturing is a teaching technique that is used in successful methods such as The Natural Approach (NA) and Total Physical Response (TPR) in helping ELL students in English comprehension and output. This study examined the effects that increased teacher gestures have on the number of words spoken by the child in multiple settings. Data were collected in the context of a multiple baseline design across three settings. The results indicate t

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Travieso-Parker, Lourdes Lucia. "Policies, Pedagogy, and Practices: Educational Experiences of Latino English Language Learners in Virginia." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26593.

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The purpose of this qualitative case study was to analyze the impact of the policies of the No Child Left Behind Act (2001) on the teaching and learning of 10 Latino English language learners (ELLs) in an urban high school in Virginia. Using ethnographic methodology, the researcher examined the nexus of the policy of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) (2001) with the pedagogy of the English as a Second Language (ESL) and content area teachers, and the practices employed by teachers to enable students to acquire a second language in an academic setting. This enabled the researcher to examine t

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Perdigão, Ana Margarida Lobo. "Relatório da prática de ensino supervisionada em educação pré-escolar: desenvolvimento da linguagem oral e da escrita emergente." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/12972.

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O presente relatório enquadra-se no âmbito do Mestrado em Educação Pré-Escolar, mais concretamente, na unidade curricular de Prática de Ensino Supervisionada, a qual decorreu numa instituição privada em Évora, a Escola Salesiana. O tema por mim elegido foi o Desenvolvimento da Linguagem Oral e da Escrita Emergente, no entanto, ao longo de toda a minha prática de ensino supervisionada foram sempre desenvolvidas inúmeras propostas referentes às outras áreas de conteúdos e feita a sua respetiva articulação. Baseando-me na metodologia de investigação-ação, foi por mim desenvolvida uma atitude de p

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Lipp, Amanda KR. "Improving Head Start Teachers' Concept Development: Long Term Follow-Up of a Training Program and Differences in Program Impact." TopSCHOLAR®, 2016. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1604.

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Children from a low socioeconomic status (SES) home environment are typically exposed to less vocabulary during the first few years of life and experience higher rates of poor school readiness, particularly in emergent literacy skills, when compared to middle-class peers (Bowey, 1995; Hart & Risley, 2003; Whitehurst, 1997). Early childhood education programs designed to expose this group to cognitively challenging utterances have found that low SES children tend to make greater gains in vocabulary development compared to middle-class peers (Justice, Meier, & Walpole, 2005).

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Beteinaki, Eleftheria. "Structures, processes and outcomes in preschool units with high and low proportions of second language learners of Swedish : A Comparative Study." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Jönköping University, HLK, CHILD, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-49627.

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Second language learners (SLLs) are students at risk for negative outcomes in preschool. Theoretical statements from systems theory and the ecological model of inclusive education indicate that a main focus of interest when supporting children should be the preschool environment that surrounds them. The purpose of this study is to describe and compare structures and processes in preschool settings that are presupposed by theory to have an impact on children’s functioning, along with children’s outcomes in preschool units with different proportions of SLLs. A combination of questionnaire data a

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Nichols, Jennifer Lynn. "Motivation and Affective Variables in Arabic Language Learning for Iraq War Veterans: Language Learning Experiences Inside and Outside the Classroom." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1274056937.

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Agerberg, Alexandra. "Im Zwiegespräch mit dem Computer : ICT und digitale Kompetenzen zur Förderung und zur Motivation der Sprachentwicklung von Lernern einer Fremdsprache mit Focus auf die mündliche Sprachentwicklung." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Tyska, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-28000.

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Aim – The paper at hand has three aims which are based on the recent adjustments made to the Swedish curriculum which take effect in summer 2018 and stipulate the implementation of digital competence in all subjects. Firstly, the study examines the effect of ICT and digital media/ aids on the WTC and motivation of second language learners. Secondly, a look is taken at how ICT and digital media/ aids are implemented in teaching today and thirdly, the challenges teachers face by the diverse interpretation and definition of the term digital competence and its realization in the classroom are inv

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Clancy, Charlotte M. "Reading recovery : investigating differential effects on the literacy development of young children for whom English is an additional language in comparison with their native speaking peers." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cad85100-4bfc-4348-91d0-9a0fa7d3a216.

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This thesis studied young, struggling readers, all of whom had participated in the Reading Recovery literacy intervention, and investigated whether differential progress was made by children learning English as an additional language when compared with their native, English-speaking peers. The children were assessed on a pre- and post-test basis on literacy measures associated with reading comprehension in a UK context. Following a Pilot Phase, 52 children who were learning English as an additional language, and 48 native, English-speaking children were recruited from twenty-three primary scho

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Chan, Lydia L. S. "The development of L2 emergent literacy in Hong Kong kindergarten children." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:98c42993-96ec-469e-bbcd-daf9d3bd2fc1.

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This thesis explores the development of emergent literacy in Hong Kong Kindergarten children who are learning English as a Second Language (L2). Two interrelated empirical studies have been conducted, and both aim to examine the contribution of code-related and oral language skills to predicting early L2 reading ability, controlling for home influences. The majority of research on emergent literacy has been conducted on First-Language (L1) English-speaking children, and it is possible that these established concepts and models could also be relevant to L2 children. The first is a 2-year longit

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Gazda, Emily. "Los niños que se quedan atrás: la doble moral sobre el bilingüismo de los niños de lengua minoritaria en las escuelas públicas estadounidenses = The children left behind: the double standard of bilingualism for minority language c." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1336696910.

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Colin, Catherine. "Construction du bi-plurilinguisme en français langue de scolarisation : apprentissage d'une L2 en enseignement bilingue précoce." Phd thesis, Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00808409.

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Alors que l'efficacité et l'intérêt des dispositifs d'enseignement bilingue précoce ont été largement démontrés, peu d'études se sont penchées en détail sur les processus à l'oeuvre dans l'acquisition précoce d'une langue étrangère. Cette étude vise à analyser le développement de la compétence en L2 chez de jeunes enfants, dans un contexte où l'école est la seule source d'exposition à celle-ci. À partir d'un corpus recueilli dans des classes de maternelle et primaire de deux écoles franco-américaines en Californie, nous proposons d'examiner comment des enfants anglophones de 4 à 7 ans scolaris

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ARMSTRONG, ALEXANDER. "Essays on the Economics of Language and Language Policy." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/8070.

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This thesis concerns the economic dimensions of second language knowledge and acquisition and the economic implications of language policies. The value of the ability to speak and understand a second language depends on the extent to which it enlarges one's communicative sphere which, in turn, depends on the language abilities of others. This implies that second language acquisition decisions are associated with strategic considerations and spillover effects. Consequently, the equilibrium distribution of language skills may not be socially efficient and policy remedies may be called for. The f

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Matis, Anna Flora. "The art of saving a language : heritage language learning in America." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/24063.

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The term heritage language (HL), which only emerged in the context of language policy during the 1990’s, refers to immigrant, refugee, and indigenous languages whose target group of learners have either previously learned the language as a first language (L1) or home language, or have some form of heritage connection to the language (Cummins, 2005). The bilingual nature of these individuals is ambiguous, as variables related to literacy and oral proficiency in the first language are significantly influenced by geographical, cultural, academic, and sociolinguistic factors prevalent to the conte

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Jao, Tse-chun, and 饒策群. "The Reflection of Language Acquisition – A Case Study of Child Second Language Attrition." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/52509831819141317786.

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碩士<br>國立台北師範學院<br>兒童英語教育研究所<br>94<br>Language attrition usually accompanies migration and the differences between language contexts can make it worse. Since 1980, the issue of language attrition has received attention from many researchers (Bahrick, 1984; Edwards, 1976; Tomiyama, 1999; Tomiyama, 2000; Welten et al., 1986). Their efforts have provided useful answers to parts of the issue and given helpful advice in the teaching and learning of second language. However, the attrition process between different language contexts may be varied and little attention has been given to the impact on na

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Zdorenko, Tatiana. "Constructions in child second language acquisition: exploring the role of first language and usage." Phd thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10048/1709.

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This thesis examined the factors of L1, input frequency and emergent productivity in child L2 acquisition. This thesis is the first study to look at the interplay of L1 and usage factors in children learning a L2. The focus of the thesis was an investigation of these factors in the acquisition of article and auxiliary systems of English, which have been proven to be problematic areas for both L1 and L2 learners. While accounts of L1 transfer in L2 are better developed in generative theory, the roles of input frequency and emergent productivity are better developed in constructivist theory. The

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Saneka, Nora. "Barriers and bridges : child participation, second-language learning and the cognitive development of the young child." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13891.

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The purpose of the research was to look critically at the language development of the young second-language learner within their social context, in relation to theory and practice (praxis), using as a ‘lens’, “the right to participation” (UNCRC General Comment No 12, 2009). Language and communication were seen by the researcher as fundamental to the child’s ‘right to participate’ as ‘agents of their own life’ (General Comment No 7, 2005) as they engage in meaning-making with others, both at home and at school. The research was conducted as a Case Study within a Pre-Primary School over a

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Li, Yin-Fang, and 李胤芳. "The influence of infusing Film into teaching on Child Second Language Writing Acquisition Achievement." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60905439777479740817.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣師範大學<br>應用華語文學系<br>103<br>With the ethnic Chinese population increases year by year, the Chineseteaching has become increasingly important. In learning aspect, due to the influence of growth environment background, generally the listening and speaking abilities are higher than reading and writing abilities.How to improve the balanced development of these four abilities is a great task, and now there are many researches related to reading, but compared to the related research of writing is less.And when the students having writing class, complaints are heard everywhere, so this study

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Rauner, Diana Mendley. "The language environments of child care homes and their relation to language development in the second and third years of life /." 2002. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3048415.

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Stewart, John Mark Southern Mark R. V. "The fundamental difference between child and adult language acquisition a longitudinal, naturalistic study of parameter resetting in Swedish interlanguage /." 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3122797.

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Stewart, John Mark. "The fundamental difference between child and adult language acquisition: a longitudinal, naturalistic study of parameter resetting in Swedish interlanguage." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/964.

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Yu, Chun-Li, and 游春麗. "How learner's agency affects second language learning: A case study of a six-year-old child." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4ngj4m.

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碩士<br>實踐大學<br>應用外語學系英語溝通碩士班<br>103<br>ABSTRACT Learning English as a foreign language is a protracted process and children in Taiwan gradually start learning English from the early ages of 4 or 5. The learning agency of children and adults is not identical. The same may be said of the process of acquiring native languages and learning foreign languages. This thesis relies on social cognitive theory as a conceptual framework. The objective of this research was to study how potential capabilities residing in children’s minds could be evoked, sustained and executed. This work also explored the ro

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Wei, Yuyan. "Acquisition of English morphosyntax : evidence from a Chinese-speaking child." 2011. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1660965.

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This thesis aims to examine the development of morphosyntax with longitudinal English production from Diany, a Mandarin-speaking child, starting from the second week Diany arrived in the U.S.A. (age 4;9). The study is particularly interested in whether Diany’s acquisition of verbal morphemes and verb movement supports relevant hypotheses in the literature. In generative linguistics, there are two important lines of interests in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) that address the “long-standing debate on the nature of syntactic representation in SLA” (Haznedar & Gavruseva, 2008:5).

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Bruce, Marian Elsie. "The simultaneous acquisition of a second and third language." Diss., 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16079.

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This study investigates whether it is possible and necessary to acquire a second and third language simultaneously in our present multicultural, multilingual South Africa with its eleven official languages. The qualitative, descriptive empirical research was executed for the duration of the first school term within a multiracial grade four class at Richmond Primary School in KwaZulu Natal. Afrikaans and Zulu were taught in separate periods, simultaneously, for the exact number oflessons per week, with the exact same content, method and teacher. The success ofthe research, rested on main

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Han, Jiayun. "Second language acquisition of temporality and passive voice a case study of a Chinese child learning English in mainstream classrooms in the United States /." 2007. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/han%5Fjiayun%5F200708%5Fphd.

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Kim, Kwangok. "The role of oral language interactions in English literacy learning : a case study of a first grade Korean child." 2011. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1637945.

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This paper is a qualitative case study of a Korean first grade child. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the nature of a first grade Korean child’s oral language interactions with teachers, parents, peers, and community members and to examine how a child’s oral language impacts his literacy learning in English. The data were collected over five months from three different settings: the school, the Korean Language School, and the home. Data methods were interviews, observations, field notes, surveys, audio and video recordings, documents, and informal assessments in Korean and

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Gosselin-Lavoie, Catherine. "Lecture de livres bilingues par six duos parent-enfant allophones du préscolaire : description des lectures et des interactions et relations avec l’acquisition du vocabulaire." Thèse, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/16439.

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