Questions tagged [second-lang-acquisition]
Questions with this tag are about the acquisition of one or more second languages. In other words any language other than the mother tongue or native language of a given speaker.
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L1 memories being recalled in my L2
The situation is as follows: I have been studying my L2 for approximately 4 years. I have spent a total of 10 months immersed in the L2 environment. My current stint has been for 5 months and counting....
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Can native ASL signers ID someone’s native sign language from their accent in otherwise fluent ASL?
Google keeps trying to give me native accent variations in ASL when I try to look this up, hence asking it here.
In spoken English, it tends to be relatively obvious if someone’s first language is ...
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Second and third language "search"
In my third or fourth language, when I don't know a word or phrase, I substitute a word from my other non-native language rather than the one I obviously know in my native language. Or if I'm looking ...
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Analysing the notion of the native speaker
I am interested in the notions of the native, native-like, near native... speakers in linguistics. I have encountered several non-equivalent definitions/characterizations of these concepts. Right now, ...
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comparative study of spoken language complexity or irregularity
Could you recommend a publicly accessible study/article that quantitatively compares languages by their complexity or irregularity?
I am interested in spoken languages only. Not writing/spelling.
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Two tasks in one experiment design (self-paced-reading & grammaticality judgment)
For experiment design experts, I want to know if it's possible to design an experiment on PsychoPy or Open Sesame in which the subject does a self paced reading (with measuring the reading times for ...
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During second language acquisition, is it common for the speech organs to get tired by speaking the second language?
I am a non-native speaker of English (I'd rather not say what my native language is). I have noticed that my speech organs (tongue, lips, jaws and also the palate but I'm not so sure if it's the ...
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Research on SLA for "Reading Only"
Is there research in SLA by graduate students and others who "acquire" a rudimentary understanding of a language primarily for the purpose of reading original academic research and sources in that ...
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The barrier of intuitively using a second language’s word order
I am learning German and a big hurdle I am facing is word placement. For example, the last half of a sentence is:
[…], aber ich werde es nicht verstehen.
(but I would not understand it.)
I know ...
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Theories on L1 transfer/interference in L2 pronunciation/phonetics/phonology
What theories explain the transfer of phonetic and phonological features from the first language to a second or foreign language?
How do these theories differ from each other?
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Controversy & Debate in SLA: Can I ever get concrete takeaways?
I learned Mandarin in high school and later in life (now) started becoming interested in how I was able to acquire it, i.e., the study of SLA.
My goal: As of now, I hope to have concrete strategies ...
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What is a good multi language translation system for individual parts of speech such as verbs, nouns, adjectives?
I am developing a language learning tool in Python that generates dual-language books intended to be read as audio books.
The system should work by giving single word translations after every ...
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Why were early studies on morpheme acquisition criticized?
I was reading the Wikipedia page on Order of acquisition and they said that many studies in the 1970s studied "whether a consistent order of morpheme acquisition", e.g. in L2 learners for ...
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How many *Non-Native* speakers of Egyptian Arabic are there world wide?
Every time I try to look this up, it always gives me the number for native speakers. I'm not looking for that. I specifically want to know how prevalent Egyptian Arabic is as a second language around ...
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Are There Any Papers/Studies/Etc on Teaching L2 Learners how to Parse Speech by Teaching Them Phonotactics?
Are there any studies in which subjects are taught the phonotactics of their L2 in order to help parse words out in their target language's speech? All of the studies I have read concerning the ...
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Is there any "standard" definition of "linguistic input"?
Recently, I've started wondering how to characterize "linguistic input" and realized that the notion is very rarely unpacked. It seems as if everyone takes it to be obvious, and immediately goes to ...
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required standards for US domestic foreign language education
In reference to my earlier post, I'm going to be teaching foreign languages in some capacity and was advised by a board of education that I ought to understand and incorporate foreign language edu. ...
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Does being educated affect the rate and the quality of second language acquisition?
People move a lot and become immigrants in other countries. Many immigrants, in every historical time frame, come to countries without an prior knowledge of the language.
However, they usually learn ...
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Are recasts a hotter research topic than prompts in SLA? If so, why?
It seems that much research concerning corrective feedback in SLA is assuming a recasts-prompts dichotomy, and researchers are willing to further examine recasts in terms of implicitness/explicitness. ...
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Which brain disorders cause better second language learning?
I heard that people with some types of synesthesia may have advantages for learning second languages. I don't know whether it’s true or not. Which kind of brain disorders cause better second-language ...
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Second language learning and immersion among native speakers
In second language learning is there any evidence that fluency cannot be achieved without immersion among native language speakers? If 'yes', what is the reason?
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Can someone explain this sentence from Dartmouth's German page?
Was perusing the page (you can find it here), I came across the paragraph "That said, word order is a complex aspect of language, never wholly mastered by non-native speakers.
What is the idea ...
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second-language phonology/L1 influence on L2 acquisition
I'm a writer, and I want to write a poem about how one's native language can interfere with the acquisition of a second language. I understand that this is studied in the field of second-language ...
