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Virtual companionship or flesh and blood: The effects of study-with-me (SWM) videos on learners’ intrinsic motivation, perceived pressure, and performance

Study-with-me (SWM) videos offer virtual companionship for learning. Users claim that SWM videos simulate physical companionship, motivate their learning with manageable pressure, and enhance their performance with minimal cost. Despite burgeoning …

The impact of out-of-school L2 input and interaction on adolescent classroom immersion and community-L2 learners’ L2 vocabulary: opportunities for interaction are key

Comparing young second-language (L2) learners in different learning contexts is a valuable, but under-researched, design for determining how L2 experiences impact L2 development. This study addressed this gap by comparing the out-of-school L2 …

Does the use of complex sentences differentiate between bilinguals with and without DLD? Evidence from conversation and narrative tasks

Over-identification of language disorder among bilingual children with typical development (TD) is a risk factor in assessment. One strategy for improving assessment accuracy with bilingual children is to determine which linguistic sub-domains …

Comprehension of English plural-singular marking by Mandarin-L1, early L2-immersion learners

Previous research has established that early second language (L2) learners in classroom immersion may not ultimately produce all L2 morphosyntactic features as first language (L1) speakers of the language do, whereas L2 comprehension outcomes are …

Oral language profiles of English second Language learners in adolescence: Cognitive and input factors influence how they compare to their monolingual peers

It is often claimed that child English L2 learners take up to seven years to attain English skills commensurate with those of monolingual peers; however, existing research is insufficient to know if this claim is valid for oral language abilities in …

Children's second language acquisition of English complex syntax: The role of age, input and cognitive factors

The goal of this study was to determine a) the similarities and dissimilarities between child L2 and L1 acquisition of complex sentences and b) the individual difference factors predicting L2 children’s acquisition of complex sentences. We analyzed …