While considerable research has focused on second language development and academic success, the debate continues on how the development of the first language benefits the acquisition of the second. The intent of the present study was to examine the s t rength of the re la t ion among proficiency in English and Spanish and academic success. Relations among oral language, literacy, and academic ...

Over the last two decades, question of to which linguistic cues learners pay attention when they decode a new language has been subject controversy in field third (L3) acquisition. In this article, we present an artificial learning experiment that investigated how lexical and syntactic similarities between L3 preexisting grammars impact crosslinguistic influence at very beginning acquisition pr...

the present study was an attempt to investigate the acquisition of negationproperties by persian monolingual and kurdish-persian bilingual learners of englishacross different levels of language proficiency and within a generative framework.generative models are generally concerned with issues such as universal grammar(ug), language transfer, and morphological variability in nonprimary languaged...

In the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), the role of transfer has been theorized and studied to account for the influence of the native language on an interlanguage. However, stemming from behaviorist mentality, the concept of transfer has become widely associated with the direct transfer of habits and fails to take into consideration other cross-linguistic influences (CLI) that shape...

Aims and Objectives: This article proposes the “scalpel model,” a new model of third and additional language (L3/Ln) acquisition. The model aims to identify and examine what happens beyond the initial state of acquisition and what factors may influence change from one state of knowledge to another. Methodology: The article briefly examines the currently proposed hypotheses and models and evalua...

Bilingualism or multilingualism is not the aberration supposed by those speaking a 'big language' but rather the default situation for the majority of speech communities in the world today. Based on this perspective, the psycholinguistic foundations of second language acquisition are explored in the first part of this paper and it is argued that bilingual education in a monolingual society shou...

The aim of this research is to perform a bibliometric analysis published academic studies on “bilingualism” in the category educational Web Science (WoS) database. Research titles were searched using keyword all WoS data bases Knowledge page. In order reach holistic interpretation, study was done cover 51-year time period between years 1970-2021 by starting from oldest date available As result ...