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Li, Yanmei (Date of defense: 2024-06-20)
[eng] The study of writing as a site for language learning has led to the exploration of learning affordance of task complexity in L2 writing, a task implementation feature that has received growing attention in task-based ...
Ortega Duran, Mireia (Date of defense: 2016-11-18)
The study of crosslinguistic influence (CLI), a phenomenon that emerges due to the interaction of different languages in the learners’ mind, has attracted the attention of SLA researchers since the emergence of the field. ...
Aliaga-Garcia, Cristina (Date of defense: 2017-12-14)
Adult second language learners often experience major difficulties in perceiving and producing non-native speech sounds. Several perception training studies (Iverson & Evans, 2007; Nishi, & Kewley-Port, 2007; Carlet & ...
Darnault, Bérénice (Date of defense: 2023-07-11)
[eng] In the context of an ageing and increasingly more independent learning population, a narrative inquiry into the life stories of highly motivated senior language users remains a promising yet relatively unexplored ...
Gesa Vidal, Ferran (Date of defense: 2019-11-29)
Whether and how video viewing is beneficial for language learning has been a matter of debate over the last decades (Vanderplank, 2015). Multimedia learning theories (Mayer, 2009; Paivio, 1986) suggest that exposure to ...
Casulleras Marquès, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2023-04-21)
[eng] Even if audiovisual materials have been shown to offer several advantages for L2 learning (Danan, 2004), in previous literature very little attention has been paid to L2 learning from multimodal input in young ...
Alexandrescu, Cristina (Date of defense: 2024-03-20)
[eng] Multilingualism is one of the many effects of globalisation. The need to be proficient in several languages has sprung from people’s need to expand their universe outside their countries of origin in search for a ...
Safronova, Elena (Date of defense: 2016-11-04)
Many second language (L2) learners find L2 pronunciation difficult and experience perception and production problems leading to accented speech. There exists a great inter-learner variation in L2 phonological acquisition ...
Martín-Chazeaud, Alexandre (Date of defense: 2017-11-17)
In most Sub-Saharan countries, children grow up in a local environment attached to a culture and an identity which are embraced by a local language. However, when they start compulsory school at the age of six, they have ...
Mora Plaza, Ingrid (Date of defense: 2023-06-06)
[eng] Second language (L2) pronunciation learning in foreign language instructional contexts is particularly challenging due to insufficient quantity and quality of L2 input. Decades of L2 speech acquisition research have ...
Vasylets, Olena (Date of defense: 2017-05-29)
One of the major areas of interest in task-based language learning and teaching (TBLT) has been the psycholinguistically-oriented strand, which explores the way in which task design may interact with second language (L2) ...
Serfaty, Jonathan (Date of defense: 2023-01-20)
[eng] According to research into second language (L2) practice, learners should repeatedly engage in output activities with feedback in order to develop accuracy. Digital flashcards can be used to prompt L2 output and ...
Romão, Marianna Protázio (Date of defense: 2019-01-25)
A operação estrutural pela qual as mulheres, como diferenças do padrão masculino e heroico, foram representadas negativamente na cultura reside no cerne da fundação da democracia ocidental, com consequências éticas, políticas ...