This study aimed to verify the existence of a double first language (L1)/second language (L2) dissociation. In recent work, I described a case study of a Arabic-Hebrew aphasic patient (MH) with disturbances in the two languages, with Hebrew (L2) being more impaired. In this case, an Arabic-Hebrew bilingual patient (MM) with a similar cultural background who suffered brain damage following a lef...

Different writing systems in the world select different units of spoken language for mapping. Do these writing system differences influence how first language (L1) literacy experiences affect cognitive processes in learning to read a second language (L2)? Two groups of college students who were learning to read English as a second language (ESL) were examined for their relative reliance on phon...

This paper reports on the participation of Techlimed in the Second Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction organized by the Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop. This year's competition includes two tracks, and, in addition to errors produced by native speakers (L1), also includes correction of texts written by learners of Arabic as a foreign language (L2). Techlimed participate...

pair and small group work is infrequently welcomed in english as a foreign language (efl) classes under the assumption that students tend to use their first language (l1), which is considered detrimental to learning the new language. from sociocultural perspective, however, students’ first language is claimed to play the role of an important psychological tool and can facilitate the learning pr...

An EEG coherence study was performed with a twofold objective: first, to scrutinize the theoretical concept of "cortical efficiency" in connection with second language (L2) acquisition and, second, to detect cooperations between cortical areas in specific frequency bands indicative for highly proficient L2 processing. Two groups differing only in their level of L2 proficiency were contrasted du...

How Javanese (L1) learners of English (L2) produce durational features of vowels has received increasing interest in the study of second language acquisition because the vowel systems are very disparate. The present production experiment attempts to shed light on the interference by Javanese (L1) on English vowel production (L2). The results are discussed with respect to differences in the vowe...

The controversy over the use of first language (L1) in second (L2) classroom has been discussed extensively by numerous scholars which they either advocate or reject utilisation L1 target (TL) classroom. Although proponents monolingual approach argued that there are many disadvantages utilising L1, have yet to present empirical findings demonstrate could ultimately hinder L2 learning. In most c...

Rapid automatized naming (RAN) is a strong predictor of reading across languages. However, it remains unclear if the effects RAN in first language (L1) transfer to second (L2) and results vary as function orthographic proximity L1–L2. To fill this gap literature, we examined role accuracy fluency eight languages representing different writing systems. Seven hundred thirty-five university studen...

Although research on multilingualism has revealed continued neuroplasticity for language-learning beyond what was previously expected, it remains controversial whether and to what extent a second language (L2) acquired in adulthood may induce changes in the neurocognitive processing of a first language (L1). First language (L1) attrition in adulthood offers new insight on neuroplasticity and th...

Grammar competition has been proposed as a model for second language (L2) acquisition. Variational Learning provides framework within which to investigate the idea of grammar requires marriage quantitative properties input with Universal Grammar. A diachronic variational is extended acquisition (L2A) explore verb-second word order optionality in L2 English. Patterns L1-German–L2-English are rev...