In recent years, language-learning research has been more concerned with factors that may affect the choice of learning strategies among learners. In studies conducted by Cohen (1990), Ehrman and Oxford (1995), MacIntyre and Gardner (1989) and Reid (1987), these factors have been identified as motivation, gender, learning style, previous experience, and personality type. This study attempts to ...

We present an experiment supporting the thesis that visual languages are well suited for programmers whose native language is not English. We first analyze the particular problems of our target group, Arabic speakers, in comprehending Pascal program structures, and we present a number of previously proposed solutions to this problem. We then present our own solution, a visual programming enviro...

In this paper we adopt a usage-based perspective on the process of first language acquisition. Following Tomasello (2003), we assume that children initially learn concrete chunks of language, linguistic gestalts that can take different sizes and shapes, in dialogue. They then generalize across those various elements in order to assemble more abstract constructions (Fillmore 1988, Goldberg 1995)...