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Characterizing and dealing with anxiety in the foreign language classroom
(2018-12-03)
Foreign Language Anxiety has been defined as the feeling of nervousness that may appear in the process of acquiring a new language. Although it may have beneficial effects on students’ performance, the presence of anxious ...
Analysis of EFL speech production data according to theoretical models : English plosives by Native Spanish speakers
(2017-11-21)
Within language acquisition, speaking in a non-native language accurately is extensively recognized to be the hardest skill confronted by learners. It seems an arduous task as it demands the correct employment of second ...
American English: speech analysis of the Southern dialect
(2017-11-21)
Language is a complex phenomenon every human ends mastering, independently of the mother tongue they have acquired in their childhood. In this globalised world, however, an increasing number of speakers are multilingual ...
Analysis of EFL speech production corpora according to the Speech Learning Model
[ES] Este TFG trata de mostrar cómo pronuncia una persona del País Vasco al hablar en Inglés (teniendo esta lengua como lengua extranjera) de acuerdo a un modelo teórico sobre el aprendizaje de segundas lenguas. También ...
Children'sendstate neglect: agentive vs. causative subjects
First language acquisition studies (e.g. Gentner,1978;
Gropen, Pinker, Hollander & Goldberg, 1991;
Wittek, 2002; van Hout,2005;2008)
have reported that children accept perfective
change-of-state predicates, which ...
The role of task repetition in L2 acquisition
(2017-11-24)
The use of tasks in language teaching has been demonstrated to be beneficial as it provides learners with the opportunity to develop their interlanguage by means of conversational interaction. However, as tasks are ...
The potential of writing for L2 learning: Collaborative writing
This TFG focuses on how collaborative writing in an L2 can be an effective opportunity for L2 acquisition. For that, it revises six pieces of research that investigate how different variables (such as proficiency, corrective ...
“Using the properly”: L1 Transfer in the Acquisition of Definite Articles in English by Spanish speakers
The study of L2 article acquisition has become an important area in the cross-linguistic field.
Articles have
been classified as one of the most difficult features in English, as
they are
employed very ...
Acoustic analysis of EFL speech production corpora according to the Speech Learning Model
(2020-05-20)
It is widely accepted that L1 influences the acquisition of L2 phonology during Second Language Acquisition. Models such as the Speech Learning Model (SLM) have tried to explain this process by defining bi-directional ...
The acquisition of complex wh-questions in L2
The main goal of this paper is to review how complex wh-questions are acquired in the
process of learning a second language (L2). Adopting a generative perspective, the
paper will consider experimental studies that have ...