Questions tagged [l2-acquisition]
For questions related to the acquisition of a second language.
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Japanese: Are there computer games that support learning the Genki I and II textbook vocabulary?
Are there computer games that use the Genki I and II textbook vocabulary? Sometimes playing a game allows for better memory formation of vocabulary compared to straight memorizing lists and viewing ...
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Is there research into the phenomenon of "increased skill leading to decreased attention" for L2 learning, and what can a student do about it?
User phills at chinese-forums.org describes their experience learning Chinese through listening to audiobooks:
Paradoxically, I couldn't do these other things before when I was worse at the skill. I ...
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Is it best practice for a L2 textbook passage to re-use vocabulary from previous passages?
Almost all L2 textbooks contain passages which use new vocabulary. There seems to be two ways to go about this (both with pros and cons):
The vocabulary of every passage is independent of previous ...
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Which linguistics professors, with a PhD in linguistics, have written on how they personally acquired second languages?
Please recommend books or publications by
legitimate linguistics professors (anyone with a teaching position), at an accredited university
with a PhD in linguistics
detailing their own SLA process. ...
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Difference in acquisition of active vs. passive language usage skills
By passive and active, I mean understanding language when used vs. using it yourself, like in the terms active/passive vocabulary. My experience learning languages is that active skills are much ...
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How to explain certain grammar constructs to ESL students
How do I explain to someone whose first language is not English the following concept:
If I want to ask you about something, the phrase is "How does it work?"
If I am about to explain how ...
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How to avoid L1 and L2 interference if learning an L3?
Anyone got any ideas. I primarily speak English, but I know Japanese and French equally well but not as well as English, so they both become muddled when I try to speak either..
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Is learning English as a second language a skill or a knowledge?
I think learning English is not just learning a skill like other skills (for example carpentry) because learning is also knowledge based, like history and physics.
Language helps us ...
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Is the core of teaching a second language like English intelligibility or native like fluency? [closed]
I think the core of teaching English as second language should be intelligibility but not native like fluency.
This is not just my personal opinion but it is the opinion of
many scholars who make ...
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Are learning and acquistion the same?
Many books on English Methodology treat learning and acquisiton synonymously. But I think they are different.
Some professors I know say that they are different.
Some others say they overlap and ...
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How can the natural approach to language acquisition work for L2?
So, I was seeing a video today where the narrator brought this approach as the best for L2 acquisition. I believe it can be useful, that's how we all learned our L1 after all, but I wonder how it can ...
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Is there a publicly accessible "Self access language learning center" in or near Washington, DC?
I was recently reading the Wikipedia article on Self access language learning centers, which describes them as
...educational facilities designed for student learning that is at least partially, if ...
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How many people in the world can I speak with if I know three languages?
In order to gather some data that can hopefully give an estimate for the correlation between L1 and L2 languages, please take a moment to take this short 2-question survey.
The title might be a bit ...
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How to cope with noise in the background?
I find that my ability to understand speech deteriorates rapidly when there is noise in the background. The effect seems to be more pronounced the weaker the language is for me - English is fine even ...
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What are the effective ways to learn and remember any word. And use that in the right way
I am having trouble with picking the right word for the context that I am talking about. To get rid of the problem I practiced to find all the forms of any word that I encountered ever through books, ...
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Is it possible to archive L2 speaking skills as good as the native speakers?
First, let me restrict the scope to those who started to learn after becoming adult (about 20).
Being a native Japanese, I have never met any single non-Asian who is as fluent as an average native ...
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Should I use my second language to learn my third language? [duplicate]
English is my second language (I do not have a good command of it.) while Chinese is my first language.
I want to have Japanese as my third language. Can I learn Japanese from books/tutorials ...
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Is it possible for an adult to learn sounds of completely unrelated languages they have never heard before?
I once spent nearly an hour trying to show five Korean and Japanese adults the difference between English… British… European, come to that… “L” and “R” and not one of them could hear it, though we ...
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What is the fastest known time a person went from not knowing to fluently proficient in a language?
I'm wondering what statistics, if any, are available about some of the fastest known times for the acquisition of a 2nd+ language (from zero knowledge, to some "average" level of fluency and ...
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Is Ekapeli useful for an adult learner of Finnish?
Ekapeli is an educational game intended for children, especially those with problems with reading and writing Finnish. There are different versions for native Finnish speakers and for immigrants. The ...
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Is it possible to learn a foreign language well enough to be indistinguishable from a native speaker?
Note I don't ask if this is easy. I ask if this is possible, since it is certailny not easy.
According to this Quora answer at least, it would seem it is not possible - but Quora is Quora.
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What qualities separate those few who acquire native speaker fluency, from those who are only fluent?
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Abbreviate Native Speaker Fluency: NSF.
NSF excludes L2 learners' noticeable, but insignificantly different, accent because native speakers can understand them. But NSF necessitates ...
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Unpredictable multiple homophony of Chinese characters [closed]
I look for a strategy to deal with this lexical issue of the Chinese language, and so memorize the right pronunciation(s) correctly
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impredictable arabic broken plurals and verbal nouns (مصدر) from form I
I'd like to know a strategy to deal with this lexical issue of the Arabic language. What strategy should I follow to memorize the right pattern correctly?
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What are the implications of L2 learners being illiterate in L1 and how can they overcome them?
In other words, if you never fully learned to read in the first language that you were exposed to and start reading in a second language, what are the implications of this and how can you overcome ...
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Should literacy in the L1 be taught before teaching reading & writing in an L2?
When teaching English as a foreign language to people who are not literate in their native language (L1), should learners first be taught to read and write in their native language? In other words, ...
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Momentum and hours per week
I was told I could be in a beginner's Hebrew class that meets for two hours per week, without any required out-of-class work. I said (or rather, wished to say) that this situation is hopeless: two ...
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