Search results for "language acquisition."

Positive Predictive Value of Extraversion in Diagnosing L2 WTC

2021

Willingness to communicate in a foreign/second language (L2 WTC) is now considered an influential variable underlying the second and foreign language learning processes. It is also perceived in terms of a fundamental goal of second language education, because its higher levels result in a greater desire to practise oral communication, bringing about successful language learning. According to the pyramid model of L2 WTC, it is rooted in personality which produces both distal and enduring influences on a student’s verbal behaviour. It can thus be expected that extraversion, a personality dimension identified with energy and enthusiasm and characterised by sensitivity to reward and sociability…

CEFLING: Combining Second Language Acquisition and Testing Approaches to Writing

2012

Work-related language learning trajectories of migrant cleaners in Finland

2017

Cleaning is often the survival employment that migrants can get in their new home country. Ideally, the workplace can be a site for integration and language learning. This article explores how two migrants working as cleaners in Finland narrate their work-related Finnish language learning trajectories. The research is designed by applying nexus analysis (Scollon & Scollon, 2004), which focuses on social action in the intersection of interaction order, participants’ life experiences, and discourses in place. The social action in focus here is investment (Darvin & Norton, 2015), which means a commitment to developing language skills to achieve one’s aspirations. The article also analy…

Content and language integrated learning

2014

This special issue of The Language Learning Journal is devoted to Content and Language Integrated Learning, frequently referred to by its acronym CLIL in Europe, but also elsewhere of late. CLIL is...

Acquisition of english as a second language by students with Asperger Syndrome: a theoretical approach

2015

Partimos de diferenciar entre el Síndrome de Asperger (SA) y el Autismo de alto funcionamiento (AAF) dentro de los Trastornos del Espectro Autista (TEA) considerando tres características principales: individuos con SA muestran un CI elevado, falta de retraso en la adquisición del lenguaje (AL) y una posible facilidad en la adquisición de segundas lenguas (ASL). Además, tratamos los factores y características –favorables y desfavorables- que los/as estudiantes con SA y su profesorado deben considerar al abordar la ASL del inglés. El estudio contribuye a ofrecer una perspectiva más amplia de las teorías contemporáneas sobre ASL y a proporcionar una base sólida para un futuro estudio de campo …

Blending Literature and Foreign Language Learning: Current Approaches

2013

The aim of this chapter is to discuss the place of literature in foreign language learning and teaching contexts, and to show reasons of using literary texts for the development of communicative competence, intercultural communicative competence, and for individual as well as social human growth. Although literature and language teaching had been following separate paths, currently a strong tendency emerges of integrating language and literature teaching across proficiency levels. This tendency results from the recognition of the roles that literacy, multiliteracies and multimodality play in the life of humans in the 21st century. Respected bodies such as the Council of Europe or Modern Lan…

Vocabulary Gains of Mono- and Multilingual Learners in a Linguistically Diverse Setting: Results From a German-English Intervention With Inclusion of…

2018

Today, group settings (e.g., in kindergarten) are more linguistically-diverse than ever. However, concepts in language acquisition only rarely include this fact. This paper reports on the effects of a language intervention which is based on a concept specifically designed for linguistically-diverse settings („PROgramme for BI- and MUltilingual Children“; Festman and Rinker, 2014). The implementation of the programme and its outcomes are described with the example of a German-English-immersion kindergarten, which was in fact plurilingual. We aimed at supporting children’s acquisition of the two languages in parallel with inclusion of their home languages. Overall, 52 (mono-, bi-, and triling…

Recensión: "Key terms in second language acquisition"

2011

Recensión: "Key terms in second language acquisition. Bill van Petten and Alessandro g. Benati. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010."

Learning and using English and Swedish beyond the classroom : activity systems of six upper secondary school students

2012

Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli katsoa englannin ja ruotsin oppimista koulun ulkopuolella toiminnan teorian ja erityisesti Engeströmin (1987, 1999) toimintajärjestelmämallin näkökulmasta, josta aihetta ei ole aiemmin lähestytty. Tutkimus vastaa seuraaviin kysymyksiin: 1) Ovatko abiturientit enemmän kielenkäyttäjiä vai -oppijoita englannissa ja ruotsissa koulun ulkopuolella? 2) Millaisia eroja ja yhtäläisyyksiä heidän toiminnassaan on englannissa ja ruotsissa? 3) Mitkä tekijät selittävät aktiivisuutta ja passiivisuutta? Tutkimus on toteutettu tapaustutkimuksena. Tutkimusaineistona on kuusi puolistrukturoitua haastattelua. Haastateltavat ovat 18-vuotiaita lukion kolmannen vuosikurssin opi…

Izcilu studentu angļu valodas kā svešvalodu apguves daudzveidība

2021

Maģistra darba izvēlētā tēma ir aktuāla un nozīmīga, jo eksistē daudz un dažādas pieejas(problēmas) angļu valodas kā otrās valodas apguvē, bet tai pat reizē nav tādu kopēju vadlīniju , kas palīdzētu mūsdienu skolotājam risināt šīs problēmas. Šī darba mērķis bija analizēt un interpretēt angļu valodas apguves veidus, ko izmanto skolēni,kas sasnieguši labus rezultātus angļu valodas kā otrās valodas apguvē, kā arī lai noskaidrotu virzienus izvērstiem pētījumiem par efektīvas apguves rādītājiem. Darbā autors apkopojis un analizējis dažādās pieejas angļu valodas kā otrās valodas apguvē,sniedz pātnieciski pamatotus ieteikumus-vadlīnijas kā analizēt mācīšanas un mācīšanās procesus,veicis praktisku …