A series of 3 experiments were conducted to examine the behaviour of Japanese-speaking learners of French (JSL) concerning the perception and production of French /u/, /y/ and /ø/, compared with English-speaking learners of French, in order to examine how L2 (second language) vowels which do not have phonemic and/or phonetic equivalents in L1 (native language) are acquired by learners. The resu...

This study examined Japanese speakers’ learning of American English during their first years of immersion in the United States (U.S.). Native Japanesespeaking (NJ) children (n=16) and adults (n=16) were tested on two occasions, averaging 0.5 (T1) and 1.6 years (T2) after arrival in the U.S. Age-matched groups of native English-speaking children (n=16) and adults (n=16) also participated. The NJ...

This study analyses specific written discourse productio n in which NNSs’ usage of E nglish tenses and voice appears to be dramatically different from that of NSs. The data for the study narrowly focuses on a small number of verb phrase features, such as tenses, aspects and the passive voice, examining how they are presented in writing instruction texts and identifying areas of L2 learning in n...

Using Machine Translation (MT) for vocabulary acquisition is an inevitable phenomenon among Arabic-speaking L2 learners. But has MT fully succeeded in replacing traditional dictionaries and providing ideal tool learners? This study aimed to research the value implications of using machine translation acquisition. The significant as it investigates a neglected area teaching second language focus...

The issue addressed here concerns how second language (L2) speaking strategies mediate the relationship between L2 writing and social presence component of community inquiry (CoI) framework within context fully online courses that combined learning management system (LMS) for tasks videoconferencing live classroom discussion. related to planning reviewing contribute composing tests students wan...

The present study uses event-related potentials to investigate how crosslinguistic (dis)similarities modulate anticipatory processing in the second language (L2). Participants read predictive stories English that made a genitive construction consisting of third-person singular possessive pronoun and kinship noun (e.g., his mother) likely an upcoming continuation. pronoun's form depended on ante...

This study examines how listener judgments of second language speech relate to individual differences in listeners’ phonological memory, attention control, and musical ability. Sixty native English listeners (30 music majors, 30 nonmusic majors) rated 40 nonnative speech samples for accentedness, comprehensibility, and fluency. The listeners were also assessed for phonological memory (serial re...