A Male Spouse’s Second Language Emergence with Respect to His Workplace, Family and Spouse Identities

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Emergence

scholarly journals Book Review: Scaffolded Language Emergence in the Classroom: From Theory to Practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 75-78
Author(s):  
Gabriel Rauhoff
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
Emergent Behavior ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Theory To Practice ◽  
Language Emergence

This is a book review for Donald Kiraly and Sarah Signer's co-written piece that provides a readers a new approach to language learning. In Scaffolded Language Emergence (SLE), the classroom environment is revised to facilitate second language emergent behavior. The book review provides a brief summary of SLE, a summary of Kiraly and Signer's expertise in relation to the book's contents, and an evaluation of the book.

Unique Applications of Multi-Agent Models in Uncovering Language Learning Processes

2008 ◽  
pp. 142-173
Author(s):  
Teresa Satterfield
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Artificial Societies ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Language Emergence

Multi-scale “artificial societies” are constructed to examine competing first- and second-language acquisition-based theories of creole language emergence. Sociohistorical conditions and psycholinguistic capacities are integrated into the model as agents (slaves and slave-owners) interact. Linguistic transmissions are tracked, and grammar constructions are charted. The study demonstrates how a CAS approach offers clear indications for computational solutions to questions of language change and formation.

Distinctiveness and Assimilation in Vowel Perception in a Second Language

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (12) ◽  
pp. 4534-4543
Author(s):  
Wei Hu ◽  
Sha Tao ◽  
Mingshuang Li ◽  
Chang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Vowel Identification ◽  
Vowel Perception ◽  
Perceptual Distance ◽  
Vowel Space ◽  
English Vowels ◽  
Chinese Counterpart ◽  
Vowel Categories

Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate how the distinctive establishment of 2nd language (L2) vowel categories (e.g., how distinctively an L2 vowel is established from nearby L2 vowels and from the native language counterpart in the 1st formant [F1] × 2nd formant [F2] vowel space) affected L2 vowel perception. Method Identification of 12 natural English monophthongs, and categorization and rating of synthetic English vowels /i/ and /ɪ/ in the F1 × F2 space were measured for Chinese-native (CN) and English-native (EN) listeners. CN listeners were also examined with categorization and rating of Chinese vowels in the F1 × F2 space. Results As expected, EN listeners significantly outperformed CN listeners in English vowel identification. Whereas EN listeners showed distinctive establishment of 2 English vowels, CN listeners had multiple patterns of L2 vowel establishment: both, 1, or neither established. Moreover, CN listeners' English vowel perception was significantly related to the perceptual distance between the English vowel and its Chinese counterpart, and the perceptual distance between the adjacent English vowels. Conclusions L2 vowel perception relied on listeners' capacity to distinctively establish L2 vowel categories that were distant from the nearby L2 vowels.

Second Language Speech Fluency

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parvaneh Tavakoli ◽  
Clare Wright
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Speech Fluency
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