The present study analyses written narratives of 60 Portuguese-German bilingual children between 8 and 15 years living in Switzerland, both their languages. Portuguese is the children’s heritage language (HL) German environmental language. analysis focusses on lexical, morphological structural knowledge verb domain (verb types, agreement morphology, verbal tense, word order within VP, orthograp...

Introduction and Purpose of the Study Scientific literacy for all students has been a major educational goal in the United States understanding of science makes it possible to discuss scientific issues that affect society, to use scientific knowledge and processes in making personal decisions, and to share in the excitement of scientific discovery and comprehension " (p. ix). Often, this unders...

This article reports a pre–post comparative study investigating whether the data-driven learning (DDL) approach has different pedagogical effects on grammar students of English as foreign language (EFL) with levels proficiency. The entailed treatment group (TG) 95 first-year undergraduates who learned using DDL and control (CG) 84 received no treatment. Most participants were 18 or 19 years old...

Abstract Globally classrooms are increasingly linguistically diverse. Research often oversimplifies lived linguistic heterogeneity as binary variables: native versus non-native. Linguistic distance (LD) measures allow a fine-grained operationalization of diversity in foreign language education. This study investigated associations cognate LDs students’ home languages and classroom with English ...

The article is devoted to the problems of foreign language education in linguistic universities, namely promoting students’ competence, which has been most urgent mastering as a means communication. research prompts standards progress grammatical competence. In current study, we make hypothesis that, contrast traditional teaching approach, communicative approach supposed be more effective gramm...

The study examined language learning anxiety factors, hindering EFL learners’ process of learning, particularly in speaking settings and recommended useful approaches to cope with it. Using the quantitative approach as well as a qualitative semi-structured interview and focus-group discussion method, this study tried to examine the factors behind language anxiety among Iranian language learners...

Many studies have suggested that the concept of "number" is relatively independent from linguistic skills, although an increasing number of studies suggest that language abilities may play a pivotal role in the development of arithmetic skills. The condition of bilingualism can offer a unique perspective into the role of linguistic competence in numerical development. The present study was aime...

In a previous letter [1] I argued that the absolute dominance of the English language in scientific communication has led to linguistic injustice, arising for two main reasons: (i) non-native English-speaking scientists (NoNES) support all the costs of having a English as a common scientific language; and (ii) while native English-speaking scientists (NES) benefit for free from having a common ...

Heavy-NP shift occurs when speakers prefer placing lengthy or “heavy” noun phrase direct objects in the clause-final position within a sentence rather than in the post-verbal position. Two experiments were conducted in this study, and their results suggested that having a long noun phrase affected the ordering of constituents (the noun phrase and prepositional phrase) by advanced Iranian EFL le...