effectively in education programs (U.S. Department of Education, 1992). It is expected that by the year 2000 one in 12 elementary school students will be a second language learner (Day, 1992). In California, 1,151,819 students (one-third of all students) speak a language other than English. Of this figure

This study reports the results of two behavioral and two event-related brain potential (ERP) experiments examining the processing of inflected words in advanced second language (L2) learners with Russian as their native language (L1) who learnt German as an L2 after childhood. Two different

This paper presents a descriptive examination of the effects of high school learners of Spanish who complete a series of Internet-based assignments using a popular online Spanish tutorial. The study is designed to measure the knowledge acquired from the World Wide Web by administering and comparing

effects in parsing early vs. late closure sentences

of second language learners to repeat certain grammatical structures. The theoretical reasons for the variability in repetition difficulty for the different structure types were considered. The method of &dquo;elicited imitation&dquo; has recently been used as a convenient way to monitor children’s

which they can choose during language learning and use. The most efficient way to heighten learner awareness is to provide strategy train-ing—explicit instruction in how to apply language learning strategies— as part of the foreign language curriculum. This digest discusses the goals of strategy

Research on service-learning programs has detailed the benefits of service-learning for White, English-only, college preparatory students. However, rarely has research focused on the impacts of service-learning on Hispanic, second language learners. In part, this is due to the low partic

acquisition of the Chinese ba-constructionby adult second language learners

to spontaneous speech too, if it turned out to be feasible for read This paper describes an experiment aimed at determining whether speech. automatic assessment of second language learners ’ fluency in This experiment produced interesting results in two respects, spontaneous speech is feasible

The purpose of this article is to provide teachers of young second-language learners with strategies to enhance literacy development during project work. Projects provide experiences consistent with