brain research and second language acquisition

(1) how learners approach learning, both in and out of classrooms, and (2) the kinds of strategies and cognitive processing they use in second language acquisition

(1) how learners approach learning, both in and out of classrooms, and (2) the kinds of strategies and cognitive processing they use in second language acquisition

Ngày tải lên : 29/01/2014, 00:23
... significance of language learning strategies in language teaching. Firstly, by examining the strategies used by second language learners during the language learning process, educators and researchers ... foreign and second language. Good choice and use of learning strategies would help learners become more independent and autonomous as well as improve learners’ language competence and communicative ... general in second language acquisition. Only gender differences in language learning strategies were taken into consideration. Target population The research will be carried out on 72 second year...
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Motivation as a Contributing Factor in Second Language Acquisition

Motivation as a Contributing Factor in Second Language Acquisition

Ngày tải lên : 06/09/2013, 10:10
... in a second language, the study of another language and culture can only enhance their perception and understanding of other cultures. No matter what the underlying motivation to study a second ... are interrelated when learning a second language. Unlike other research carried out in the area, Gardner's model looks specifically at second language acquisition in a structured classroom ... Factor in Second Language Acquisition Jacqueline Norris-Holt This paper explores Gardner's socio-educational model and the significance of motivation as a contributing factor in second language...
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Understanding English Language Learners’ Needs and the Language Acquisition Process: Two Teacher Educators’ Perspectives doc

Understanding English Language Learners’ Needs and the Language Acquisition Process: Two Teacher Educators’ Perspectives doc

Ngày tải lên : 19/03/2014, 08:20
... individual journey into English as her second language as well as the ways the two languages and cultures, her home language and culture and the new language and culture she was acquiring, were ... POINT Understanding English Language Learners’ Needs and the Language Acquisition Process: Two Teacher Educators’ Perspectives 5 language acquisition process that we acquire language naturally ... any background or training in second- language acquisition, English as a second language (ESL) methods, or cross-cultural communication. (p. 10) Many English language learners spend most of...
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Motivation in learning english speaking of the second year tourism major students at tourism and foreign language department, sao do college of industry

Motivation in learning english speaking of the second year tourism major students at tourism and foreign language department, sao do college of industry

Ngày tải lên : 07/11/2012, 15:01
... (1999). The Study of Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 15.Gardner, RC. (1985). Social Psychology and second language learning: The roles of attitudes and motivation. ... Reopening the research agenda. Language learning, 41 (4),469-512. 7.Cohen,A.D.(1998). Strategies in Learning and Using a Second Language. New York: Longman. 8. Das, B.B. (1986). Communication and Learning ... second language learning (Douglas et al 1995). The relationship between aptitude and second language learning success is a very important one and various studies, such as Gardner (1980) and Skehan...
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Tài liệu Closing the gap between research and practice: Foundations for the acquisition of literacy pptx

Tài liệu Closing the gap between research and practice: Foundations for the acquisition of literacy pptx

Ngày tải lên : 17/02/2014, 06:20
... Department of Education and Arts (1994), the review of research into language and literacy by Freebody and Gilbert (1999), and the review of recent developments in language and literacy development ... the relationship between first language development and second language acquisition, and one on the development of a classroom resource to support the use of oral language as a tool for learning. ... studies). Research Studies on Language and Literacy funded by DETYA The major source of funding for Australian research into language and literacy comes from the Department of Education, Training and...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Automatic Acquisition of English Topic Signatures Based on a Second Language" potx

Báo cáo khoa học: "Automatic Acquisition of English Topic Signatures Based on a Second Language" potx

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 04:22
... in English and Chinese, and also exploits the large amount of Chinese text available in cor- pora and on the Web. We evaluated the topic signatures on a WSD task, where we trained a second- order ... work on any language pair. 5 Conclusion and Future Work We presented a novel method for acquiring En- glish topic signatures from large quantities of Chinese text and English-Chinese and Chinese- English ... al. (1999) presented a method enabling automatic acquisition of sense- tagged corpora, based on WordNet and an Inter- net search engine. Chklovski and Mihalcea (2002) presented another interesting...
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The Role of Gestures and Facial Cues in Second Language Listening Comprehension pptx

The Role of Gestures and Facial Cues in Second Language Listening Comprehension pptx

Ngày tải lên : 10/03/2014, 05:20
... inquiry. Language Learning, 54, 79–117. Long, M. H. (1996). The role of the linguistic environment in second language acquisition. In W. C. Ritchie & T. K. Bhatia (Eds.), Handbook Sueyoshi and ... hardiso2@msu.edu Language Learning 55:4, December 2005, pp. 661–699 661 Pica, T. (1994). Research on negotiation: What does it reveal about second- language learning conditions, processes, and outcomes? Language Learning, ... 926–940. von Raffler-Engel, W. (1980). Kinesics and paralinguistic: A neglected factor in second- language research and teaching. Canadian Modern Language Review, 36(2), 225–237. Wennerstrom, A....
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English As a Second Language and English Literacy Development: A Resource Guide pdf

English As a Second Language and English Literacy Development: A Resource Guide pdf

Ngày tải lên : 19/03/2014, 08:20
... track of the student’s academic and linguistic development and progress in second- language acquisition and should suggest and make changes to a student’s program and provide additional supports ... Second- Language Acquisition and Literacy Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Stages of Second- Language Acquisition for ESL Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Stages of Second- Language ... small, cooperative groups – understand and respect different cultural values – show pride in and knowledge of own culture and language – express interest in the cultures and languages of peers – discuss...
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Báo cáo " Student writing process, perceptions, problems, and strategies in writing academic essays in a second language: A case study " docx

Báo cáo " Student writing process, perceptions, problems, and strategies in writing academic essays in a second language: A case study " docx

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 10:20
... spelling mistakes and he met many problems and used a lot of strategies to solve them. 1. Introduction * Second language (L2) composition research and teaching have developed and matured to ... field of L2 composition research and practice. From the socio-cultural context where the writer writes and learns to write and the text the writer produces, L2 writing research has shifted ... Foreign Languages 24 (2008) 184-197 190 database, and a chain of evidence (Yin [25]) and adopting a systematic and comprehensive data analysis scheme has helped increase the reliability and validity...
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Writing Theory and Practice in the Second Language Classroom: A Selected Annotated Bibliography potx

Writing Theory and Practice in the Second Language Classroom: A Selected Annotated Bibliography potx

Ngày tải lên : 24/03/2014, 19:20
... Reading and Writing Tasks in Textbooks for Beginning Language Study.” Foreign Language Acquisition: Research and the Classroom. Ed. Barbara F. Freed. Foreign Language Acquisition Research and ... foreign language instruction, and English as a Second Language. Their annotations show that a number of theorists and practitioners in second language instruction are pushing the boundaries of standard ... Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch embarked on a Center-sponsored research project investigating the role of writing in second language acquisition. As Torild Homstad and Helga Thorson...
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PROGRESS I N BRAIN RESEARCH VOLUME 36 BIOCHEMICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL MECHANISMS UNDERLYING BEHAVIOUR doc

PROGRESS I N BRAIN RESEARCH VOLUME 36 BIOCHEMICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL MECHANISMS UNDERLYING BEHAVIOUR doc

Ngày tải lên : 29/03/2014, 13:20
... PROGRESS IN BRAIN RESEARCH VOLUME 36 BIOCHEMICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL MECHANISMS UNDERLYING BEHAVIOUR 48 J. STORM-MATHISEN AND F. FONNUM TABLE IV GAD AND ChAC IN HIPPOCAMPUS AND AREA ... vitro and in vivo and in both central and peripheral potency tests, the anticholinergic receptor must be the same in the guinea pig ileum, the mouse eye, the mouse salivary gland and in ... endings. This fits in with observations of Lenard and Singer (1968) on the red cell membrane and those of Condrea and Rosenberg (1968) and Rosenberg and Condrea (1968) on the squid giant axon....
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Co-evolution of Language and of the Language Acquisition Device" docx

Báo cáo khoa học: "Co-evolution of Language and of the Language Acquisition Device" docx

Ngày tải lên : 31/03/2014, 21:20
... contained a dominant language fully compatible with this (minimal) grammar. 4.3 Emergence of Language and Learners To explore the emergence and persistence of struc- tured language, and consequently ... set to default values. 2 The Language Acquisition Device A model of the Language Acquisition Device (LAD) incorporates a UG with associated parameters, a parser, and an algorithm for updating ... permutation (P) and backward and forward colnposition (I?C, BC) are given in Fig- ure 1 (where X, Y and Z are category variables, [ is a vm'iable over slash and backslash, and denotes zero...
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