A naturalistic experiment was conducted to test the hypothesis that synchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) can indirectly improve L2 oral proficiency by developing the same cognitive mechanisms underlying spontaneous conversational speech. The theoretical framework guiding this inquiry consists of Levelt’s (1989) model of language production augmented by concepts from Working Memory ...

This article discusses the reasons why Chinese learners of English avoid using phrasal verbs in an English community context or when using English as an interlanguage in China. The avoidance of phrasal verbs often leads to ineffective communication. By adopting appropriate pedagogical and methodological approaches or providing proper guidance to learning, Chinese learners of English may achieve...

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition / FirstView Article / May 2015, pp 1 18 DOI: 10.1017/S136672891500019X, Published online: 11 May 2015 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S136672891500019X How to cite this article: JOSHUA WILLIAMS and SHARLENE NEWMAN Interlanguage dynamics and lexical networks in nonnative L2 signers of ASL: cross-modal rhyme priming. Bilingualism: ...

This study attempts to analyze interlanguage production made by ten eight-grade students who were enrolled in one of the secondary schools Jakarta. Interlanguage happens when a learner talk target language but their linguistic framework is still source (any prior they knew beforehand). It intended explore kinds that occur recount writing and explain potentials why errors emerge writing. The dat...

In this paper, we describe a morphological analyzer for learner Hungarian, built upon limited grammatical knowledge of Hungarian. The rule-based analyzer requires very few resources and is flexible enough to do both morphological analysis and error detection, in addition to some unknown word handling. As this is work-in-progress, we demonstrate its current capabilities, some areas where analysi...

We propose a simple, yet effective, approach towards inducing multilingual taxonomies from Wikipedia. Given an English taxonomy, our approach leverages the interlanguage links of Wikipedia followed by character-level classifiers to induce high-precision, high-coverage taxonomies in other languages. Through experiments, we demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms the stateof-the-a...

In second language acquisition (SLA) research it is well-known that interlanguages are autonomous and rule-governed linguistic systems whose grammar cannot be described simply in terms of errors and deviations from L2 norms. However, assessment practices at school, both formative and summative, heavily rely on counting errors and scoring them based on various types of ‘gravity’. Carrying out a ...