<p>This paper reinforces the importance of third language acquisition research in a multilingual context focusing on experience, vocabulary learning strategies, emotional self-regulation and anxiety. This study explored three languages: Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, to know if there are significant relationships between above variables acquisition. Three specific sets survey questionnaires...

This study looks at intonational phrasing patterns in read speech produced by third language (L3) learners of German who speak Cantonese as the first language (L1) and English as the second language (L2). Acoustic analyses of recordings from 15 L3 learners and 10 native German speakers revealed that intonational phrasing in L3 German was different from that of natives in that 1) L3 learners pro...

the present study sought to investigate the acquisition of referential, quasi and expletive subject pronouns, three different types of obligatory subjects in english, by adult persian speaking l2 learners of english at different stages of l2 acquisition. a grammaticality judgment test and a translation test were designed and developed to elicit the participants' knowledge of obligatory subjects...

This paper explores the role played by cognitive and processing limitations in language acquisition and the relevance of bilingual rst language acquisition for the ongoing debate on the ontogeny of functional categories. 1 Deening bilingual rst language acquisition Over the past twenty years the eld of language acquisition studies has beneetted enormously from the shift from an English-centred ...

since ‘the development of whole person’ was brought to the focus of attention by humanist psychologists as a central concern in educational theory, affective variables have been assumed to have a significant share in the learning process that goes on in a pedagogical setting. meanwhile, the process of second language development, because of the very nature of language as a vehicle for communica...