Abstract Learners must develop the ability to perceive linguistic and social meaning in their second language (L2) interact effectively, but relatively little is known about how learners link a single phonetic variable. Using matched-guise test targeting coda /s/ (realized as [s] or debuccalized [h]), we explore whether L2 Spanish identify native speakers’ characteristics based on variants. Our...

This longitudinal study describes and analyses the shifts in students’ perceptions on usefulness of language learning strategies (LLS) when Spanish as a foreign language, explains roles that these play at various moments time during journey undergraduate level. The richness this investigation lies examination changing perceived over period 3 years by using mixed-method approach. Its main contri...

This paper investigates the L2 acquisition of morphosyntax number agreement French by L1 learners. The study is based on a pilot that learners’ knowledge two paradigms subject-verb in French: so-called matching paradigm which expressed audibly via an alternation verb stem between singular and plural forms mismatching not audible realized vs. alternation. We discussed our sample’s proficiency (d...

Half of the global population can be considered bilingual. Nevertheless when faced with patients with aphasia, clinicians and therapists usually ignore the patient's second language (L2) albeit its interference in first language (L1) processing has been shown. The excellent temporal resolution by which each individual linguistic component can be gaged during word-processing, promoted the event-...

BACKGROUND Patient-Physician language discordance occurs when the patient and physician lack proficiency in the same language(s). Previous literature suggests language discordant clinical encounters compromise patient quality of care and health outcomes. The objective of this study was to quantify and visualize the linguistic and spatial mismatch between Ontario's population not proficient in E...

Results of twin studies clearly demonstrate that genetic factors play an important role in the rate of language acquisition and linguistic proficiency attained by normal and impaired children and adults [see Stromswold, K. (2001). The heritability of language: A review and meta-analysis of twin, adoption and linkage studies. Language, 77, 647-723.]. That said, twin-based heritability estimates ...

People are constrained by their culture and social life when telling stories. A second language learner then cannot be expected to tell stories in the target language without cross-cultural effects that influence the way of narration. The present study examined the role of the first language (L1) and second language (L2) in the organization of narratives by focusing on Persian speakers’ and EFL...

Abstract The findings of this study relate primarily to the processes globalization that directly affect linguistic shift and present a threat extinction cultures languages peoples world. article is based on results sociolinguistic research conducted in 2021 by authors Eveno-Bytantaiskii National District Republic Sakha (Yakutia). aim situation settlement Tiugiasirs, where Sakha, Russian (predo...